Copied from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=142737 Description of problem: System won't boot Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Probably difficult, but easy on my machine. :) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Shut down FC3 without sync'ing disks 2. Try to boot 3. It doesn't. Actual results: System won't boot Expected results: System should boot. Additional info: I have an FC3 system, that was happy, but is now unhappy. This may be related to someone, who shall remain nameless, having shut off the power on it without doing an orderly shutdown. Then again, maybe it was because of a "yum -y update", because I put off rebooting for a while after that. Anyway, now when it tries to boot, I see: Red Hat nash version 4.1.18 starting Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2 2 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active ...and that's it. I've left it there for over and hour, and it never gets past that. I booted off of an FC3 rescue cd, and found that I could mount the /boot partition, but I cannot mount the / partition. I ran various lvm commands that identified two lvm volumes on the system. fsck'ing /dev/hda2 (which is /) is getting me no where though - it just says "invalid argument". I tried firing up device mapper and udev in order to get a /dev/VolGroup00 directory, but it just wouldn't do it - at least, not with the things I tried. I could mkdir the directory, but then "lvm vgmknodes" would remove it. What do I need to do to get past this? There's stuff in the filesystem I want quite a bit. :-S I tried all 3 FC3 kernels I have on the system, but none would come up, getting stuck at that same point. When I boot up into the rescue CD and let it try to find my fedora install, it gets really confused. More specifically, it says: Searching for Fedora Core installations... 0% install exited abnormally -- received signal 15 kernel panic - not syncing: Out of memory and no killable processes If I remove "quiet" and add "single" to my boot options, I get: EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem. EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: dm-0: orphan cleanup on readonly fs ...and there it hangs. Also, I ran memtest86 on the box for a while (a little over an hour), and found no errors. _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
