[NBLUG/talk] Older Server

[Walter Hansen]

That is kinda what I was thinking, but haven't taken the time to work on 
yet. If a couple of these files became corrupted it might be possible to 
do a install on a spare drive and copy the files over to get it going. I 
did find that some lower blocks were affected, but it was mostly upper 
blocks. e2fsck took quite a while and I did multiple passes. Even did a 
-c -c -y pass.

Mark Street wrote:
> Hi,init console input output error respawning
> 
> This does not look good from my point of view.  I have seen this before when 
> configuring vgetty with voice/fax modems way back when.
> 
> The key is to find out exactly where the boot is failing.. it is in inittab.  
> I can tell you right now it is not making it past ID si - system 
> initialization
> 
> Looking at the output the id1 - 6 are the different run levels 
> from /etc/inittab, prior to those running init runs rc.sysinit.  Look to 
> inittab and rc.sysinit.  You might check to see if /etc/rc.sysinit exists... 
> and you might also check to see if you have a /dev/console, it might be good 
> to check inittab.
> 
> If you look at the /etc/rc.sysinit script you will see the order in which 
> these things happen.  You can even check the binaries that are executed... 
> and see if they exist.... and are executable.
> 
> keywords
> /etc/inittab
> /etc/rc.sysinit
> /dev/console
> 
> More screen sludge and a few log files would help if you can gather some up.
> 
> On Thursday January 17 2008, Walter Hansen wrote:
>> It's still not booting and I'll post where it grinds down after this, but
>> my question is if there is anything I should try to revive it or if I
>> should just start over and re-install everything on it? I should have had
>> a good complete backup, but this was really a low priority test server
>> that we had just gotten to do something useful (no excuse). Also does it
>> sound like my guestimate is correct and the 15,000+ files creates problems
>> for ext3?
>>
>> RH 7.3 (2.4.18-3)
>> from screen:
>>
>> INIT: version 2.84 booting
>> INIT: can not execute "etc/rc.d/rc"
>> INIT: open(/dev/console): input/output error
>> INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
>> INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
>> INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
>> INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
>> INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
>> INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel