On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 9:47 PM, jd1008 <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 06/14/2015 07:36 PM, Animesh Pandey wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 9:06 PM, jd1008 <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>> On 06/14/2015 06:47 PM, Animesh Pandey wrote: >>> >>> I actually opened the Virtual Disk Image (.vdi) on >>>> http://www.vmxray.com/ >>>> . >>>> I could see that despite my disk being of 100GB only ~65GB was being >>>> shown. >>>> All the stuff related ot the local user was not visible at all. >>>> After I restarted my VM, the OS gets stuck here ( >>>> http://i.stack.imgur.com/KVYxV.png). Even after trying the single user >>>> login it was stuck there. But the emergency mode worked alright. >>>> >>>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 8:37 PM, jd1008 <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On 06/14/2015 06:28 PM, Animesh Pandey wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>>> I am working on Centos6.6 on a VirtualBox on Windows Host. Today I >>>>>> started >>>>>> to have booting issues in the OS. It won't get past the loading >>>>>> screen. >>>>>> I >>>>>> checked and found that the files related to the user "cloudera" on the >>>>>> system were not accessible. Only the files related to root were >>>>>> accessible. >>>>>> This is why I was am not able to do a single user login but an >>>>>> emergency >>>>>> login was possible. This is just a guess. >>>>>> This all happened due to some update in the Virtual Machine that I use >>>>>> to >>>>>> run CentOS. >>>>>> >>>>>> Is there any workaround for this issue? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks and regards, >>>>>> Animesh Pandey >>>>>> >>>>>> I wish you could provide more info. >>>>>> >>>>> How can you determine that inaccessibility to a user's >>>>> files will prevent centos from taking you all the way to >>>>> the login (or welcome) screen? >>>>> >>>>> I think something else is going on and my guess is that >>>>> the centos files themselves have been corruped. >>>>> Can you re-install centos ? >>>>> >>>>> Please do not top-post. >>>> >>> I am having trouble following your terminology. >>> Emergency model? >>> On my centos installation, there is no "Emergency ...." >>> to select from the list of kernels to boot. >>> >>> Also, when you say "worked alright" do you >>> mean that you were able to access what you thought >>> was missing? >>> Can you go to full multiuser? >>> >>> >>> >>> Sorry for top posting. >> >> Let me give you a clearer idea. >> >> 1. My regular boot freezes after loading is completed. >> 2. I read on the internet that sometimes due to an update in VirtualBox, >> this error might occur. To rectify it, I must re-install VirtualBox's >> Guest >> Additions. For this, I require booting in a Single User Mode. >> 3. For that, I followed the correct steps as given here ( >> >> https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Installation_Guide-en-US/s1-rescuemode-booting-single.html >> ). >> But still the system froze on that same point. >> 4. Then I read about an Emergency mode which is even lower level to that >> of >> Single User mode. I was able to log in and see the files that I >> created/modified as root. I could not see any file/folder that related the >> local user "cloudera" on which I used to work. This is where I thought of >> seeing the contents of the Image using vmxray.com and found that a large >> part of the dick is not visible. This part contains that files related to >> "cloudera". I felt as if any information related to "cloudera" user has >> been lost. >> >> I basically need to access files that I made as "cloudera" on CENTOS and >> if >> possible re-install the Guest Additions that ma solve this issue. But for >> this I need to be able to boot as a Single User. >> > I assume you are using a virtual drive, which is a file on the host > machine (You said windows??? ). > If you can somehow use a tool to dump that disk image to > a real hard drive (for example using dd ), and connect > the hard drive a a working linux computer to run fsck on it > to see what it will find. > I assume you have no backup of your drive??? > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Yes it is windows. By dumping a disk image do you mean a VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image). These are files that are used by VirtualBox for booting. I have a copy of that as well. Can Gparted be used for connecting that VDI?
