Fedora 7 Nearly all services fail @ startup

dac9 · #1 22nd June 2007, 03:47 AM

Hey All,

I install a fresh copy of Fedora 7. I then install updates using the update manager... After this

I complete all of the steps from this tutorial "http://www.howtoforge.com/the_perfect_desktop_fedora7"

I then install the KMOD nVIDIA driver + Beryle...

Everything is working fantastically until a few days later when a reboot and I get all these errors and the computer reports that primary HD cannot be mounted in read/wright mode.. I have attached three images of the errors i recieve at boot. X will not start and i dont want to format again. I would rather learn how to fix the problem....

I was speaking in the Fedora, Freenode IRC chan and many people told me this is a hardware problem with my Motherboard or HD... before I buy new Hardware i wanted to be sure.... is this a hw problem because i had windows on this drive for 8 months with no isse...

Regards,
dac9

BillT440 · #2 22nd June 2007, 04:32 AM

check your mounts and /etc/fstab

looks like the volume for /var isn't mounted or is in read-only mode. Try rescue mode or single user and give the volume a fsck for starters.

dac9 · #3 22nd June 2007, 04:34 AM

What command do i type in root to do what you have said

BillT440 · #4 22nd June 2007, 04:42 AM

ok, read your post more thoroughly

.... Sorry, long day.

I'm not sure if you're using LVM and I'm not sure LVM can do this, but the volume can put in RO mode due to errors. I know the FS can and will do this if there's a multitude of rw errors. I imagine a bad mobo (ide controller?) / disk could be the cause, yes.

The errors you receive leading up to the event... are they disk related errors?

dac9 · #5 22nd June 2007, 04:43 AM

Yes all the errors start with drive mounting and read/wright mode

BillT440 · #6 22nd June 2007, 04:49 AM

at the grub window, append a "1" (without quotes) to the kernel boot line. You'll receive errors and such and it will probably take a few minutes for everything to fail before you get a prompt. Make sure /var isn't mounted:

mount|grep var

look over the output to ensure the device isn't mounted.

if it is, do:
umount /var
fsck -y /path/to/device

I don't know your partitioning / LVM strategy, so I have to be kinda vague at the moment. /var could be coming off of your rootfs for all I would know. Know how you set this sucker up?

-Bill

dac9 · #7 22nd June 2007, 04:53 AM

ok var is not mounted... and I have my file system setup using the Fedora 7 Default options

BillT440 · #8 22nd June 2007, 04:55 AM

ok, usually the defaults are pretty ugly from an administrative standpoint. F7 may have changed the game, but I haven't used default partitioning for as long as I can remember. This might be painful, but could you post the contents of your /etc/fstab?

-Bill

dac9 · #9 22nd June 2007, 04:58 AM

using SSH... How could I copy that file over or open it?

BillT440 · #10 22nd June 2007, 05:11 AM

ok, since /var or the device that holds /var is borked, I don't think ssh will start up. You can try it.

service network start
service sshd start

Otherwise, I'm out of nifty ideas other than typing it out manually.

awk '{print $1 " " $2 }' /etc/fstab

Should be enough.

dac9 · #11 22nd June 2007, 05:17 AM

ok... to clarify im using SSH now. i typed that command. should it place a log somewhere or something?

BillT440 · #12 22nd June 2007, 05:22 AM

should just output some stuff to your screen like

/dev/rootvg/rootvol /
LABEL=/boot /boot
devpts /dev/pts
tmpfs /dev/shm
/dev/rootvg/homevol /export/home
proc /proc
sysfs /sys
/dev/rootvg/tmpvol /tmp
/dev/rootvg/varvol /var

BillT440 · #13 22nd June 2007, 05:23 AM

I'm really just trying to find out where your /var is. I'm sorry for putting you through all the troubles. I know how much of a pain this can be.

dac9 · #14 22nd June 2007, 05:25 AM

Oh no problem im learning heaps anyway...

Here it is...

tmpfs /dev/shm
devpts /dev/ptd
sysfs /sys
proc /proc
#Entry for
LABEL=/boot /boot
/dev/sbd1 /media/Pedro_2
/dev/VolGroup00/LoVol01 swap

BillT440 · #15 22nd June 2007, 05:35 AM

ok, this is from the goofed up system? When you booted with the "1" argument for single user mode, did you have the errors? According to the output here, there's no / mountpoint. Are you sure you copied and pasted the whole output?

Typically, I'll expect to see something like /dev/sda / or /dev/sda2 /

ok, since I'm not doing very good here, mind posting the whole contents of /etc/fstab? Maybe I goofed you up with my awk nonsense since I didn't expect your file to have comments in it. You can get the file content's in it's unmolested form like this:

cat /etc/fstab

just make sure you can get the whole file. Something seems missing here.