Re: raid1 custom initrd and yum

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On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 00:54 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Sam Beam wrote:
> > On Wednesday 02 April 2008 01:07, Les Mikesell wrote:
> >> First cut - in your recovery shell, comment out /home from /etc/fstab
> >> and see if you can come up without it (log in as root, of course).  That
> >> will at least give you a fairly normal environment to try to figure out
> >> why the md1 device is getting assembled but the /dev/md1 node isn't
> >> created for it.
> > 
> > Thanks Les, that was very helpful (and I should have thought of it...). But 
> > then it gets weird again:
> > 
> > I commented out the /dev/md1 line and the system came all the way up to the 
> > login prompt. Great! I thought. Enter the root password and...
> > 
> > kingkong login: root
> > Password: xxxxxx
> > Last login: Tue Dec  3 13:58:11 2002
> > /bin/bash: Permission denied
> > 
> > doh! well of course I have done nothing special to the permissions there or 
> > anywhere else. I can see all the console boot messages and they all look 
> > normal.
> > 
> > Booted into single user mode, and that works. /bin/bash has normal perms and 
> > all seems well. What's more, I was able to mount /dev/md1 on /home and it 
> > didn't complain. Then I un-commented the line in fstab, rebooted and it 
> > worked all the way up to the login prompt, it now uses all 3 md devices 
> > happily. But then, "Permission denied" is all I get. Nice system but it makes 
> > it hard to maintain when even root can't log in.
> > 
> > Could there be some disk error? I have never had so much bizarre behavior from 
> > one system. Ready to chuck it out the window.
> > 
> > Is there anything else I can try to see what's up?
> 
> Is SELinux enabled?  There's some black magic command to make it rebuild 
> its labels when it is not happy.


That would be ""touch ./autolable"".


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