-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 13:51:04 +0530 (IST), Prashant Jaikumar wrote: > i'm not able to boot into my linux box after a bad shutdown. On booting, I > get dropped into a root shell and the following errors are reported: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Setting default font (latercyrheb-sun16): Cannot open font file > latercyrheb-sun16. > /etc/rc.sysinit : line 70 : 32 Aborted (and some more errors > regarding rc.sysinit) > LC_ALL=C grep -q "Red Hat" /etc/redhat-release > > Mouting proc filesystem [FAILED] > Configuring kernel parameters [FAILED] > Setting clock (localtime) [FAILED] Well, you may need to repair some of the damage yourself, preferably with booting the first CD in rescue mode and replacing installed packages. You can locate a lot of damage with _variants_ of "rpm -Va". > And one more thing, I found that > ls and ps commands were not working on the corrupted filesystems. On doing > an ldd some .so files were found to be missing. These commands did not > work even after copying the /lib and /bin from another pc. Why do you run commands, which are stored on the mounted partition, in an operating system environment provided by Knoppix? Does Knoppix provide compatible libraries in /lib and /usr/lib? Why don't you run Knoppix's own versions of "ls" and "ps". - -- Michael, who doesn't reply to top posts and complete quotes anymore. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/gp020iMVcrivHFQRAjnyAJ9yqTYtffJrzz+8vBbpGH2zE59OcgCfVmQt LaAyMFw+uQ7JrT5nmDvSy+Y= =jfEN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
