Craig White wrote: > On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 11:17 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> OK, got an F15 system that went a bit bonkers. Things were pretty much >> hung. So, forced a reboot and the fun begins.... >> >> The boot process appeared hung with the disk activity light on solid. >> Booted to rescue mode. >> >> On one disk is /boot as well as vg_root. The second disk has vg_home. >> /boot fsck'd OK and I was able to activate and fsck vg_home. >> >> vg_root contains a swap partition as well as / which lvscan shows is 224GB. >> >> fsck /dev/vg_root/LogVol01 has resulted a line displaying >> >> /dev/mapper/vg_root-LogVol01: recovering journal >> >> and the disk activity light is on "solid". I don't believe there to be >> a HW problem since /boot is on the same disk and checks OK. So, the >> question is how long should this take? Anyway to see if anything is >> actually happening/working? >> >> Any other suggestions to getting / recovered? >> > ---- > no suggestions on getting / recovered but with rescue mode, you should > be able to <Control><Alt><F3> (or is it F4) and see kernel messages - > sort of like /var/log/messages. Sometimes this is useful when patience > is lagging. > > Well, it is F4. Nothing being outputted.... :-( top does show fsck.ext4 "running". Without fsck running it shows 99% idle and 0%wait. Running it does show a wait of 25% most of the time....so maybe it is doing something. I guess I'll let it go for a few hours before taking more drastic and maybe irrecoverable action. Like removing the has_journal flag. Thanks..... -- sillema sillema nika su -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org