On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 11:49, Tony Gogoi wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem which I'm not able to figure out. > > We have 2 email servers. Both these have /var/spool/mail on an NFS server. > > One of the email servers has RAID-1 storage and this has a problem. As one > of the hard disks of the RAID-1 failed, our network administrator replaced > a hard disk last week. He left the company at the end of the week. > > This week, while trying to add a new user to the email server the > "adduser" command failed. That error message is the same as below? > The "chattr" command in the adduser script > probably failed as the permissions on the file it tried to change > (/etc/passwd as far as I remember) did have read-write permissions > (verified by ls -l). > > On rebooting this server, I get > Inconsistency detected by > ld.so:../sysdeps/i386/dl-machine.h:385:_dl_relocate_object:Assertion > '((reloc->r_info) & 0ff)=8' failed. > Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill init. Yeah, init cannot start. Maybe some of the dependencies (libraries) are missing or corrupt. > Any suggestions ? (for a novice) Looks like some libraries are missing (happened me a couple of times with a missing libc, but not with the same message). Try to boot the server using some live-cd distro and try to remount/chroot and make a deep check (my suggestion, check for installed/uninstalled packages, rootkits and such). --jci - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
