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system gets into infinite loop (fatal IO error 104) | RE: After reboot,
system gets into infinite loop (fatal IO error 104) 2004-12-21 - By Karasik, Vitaly
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no, you don't need reinstall your system!
On 2) step you should press "e" and add "1" after "root=LABEL=/".
AFTR VBOOTING IN SINGLE-USER MODE YOU'LL BE ABLE TO LOGIN, CLEAN YOUR
After booting to singleuser mode you'll able to login and clean your system
disk.
The problem is simple - your system disk 100% full, and "xfs" [x font server]
cannot start, as result XWindow cannot start.
Rgds,
Vitaly
> -- --Original Message-- --
> From: taroon-list-bounces@(protected)
> [mailto:taroon-list-bounces@(protected)]On Behalf Of Jeroen Van Goey
> Sent: Tue, December 21, 2004 3:27 PM
> To: taroon-list@(protected)
> Subject: After reboot, system gets into infinite loop (fatal IO error
> 104)
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Normally when I (re)boot, the following steps happen:
>
> 1) a screen with some information about my monitor, some memory
> checking goes on.
>
> 2) a boot loader screen, which gives me a choice to choose wich Linux
> version I want to start
>
> 3) everything gets loaded, with green OK's in a column on the rigth
> indicating that everything goes well.
>
> 4) for about 2 seconds, I have a black screen with withe text saying:
> "Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (Taroon)
> Kernel 2.4.21-20.EL running on a i686
> (hostname) login:
>
> 5)for about 20 seconds a screenshot from how my desktop looked like
> just before I rebooted/shut down appears, often the top 10 cm is
> complete gibberish
> OR
> I see a bunch of horizontal black and white lines,
>
> 6) The Red Hat login screen appears, asking for my username/password.
>
> But last time I rebooted my system got into an infinite loop between
> steps 4 and 5.
>
> What I tried first:
>
> Every time my system was at "step 4" I could type in three to four
> characters, so I managed to log in as user (I couldn't log in as root,
> because my root password is to long, and every time when I had almost
> typed it in, the screen would have reset itself to the original login
> screen). Then I typed startx.
>
> The following error message appeared:
>
> Fatal server error:
> Server is already active for display 0
> If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
> and start again.
>
> [...]
>
> XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
> after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
>
> Because I was no root, I couldn't see the .X0-lock file
>
> So, next thing I did was going to the Windoze machine of a roommate,
> and use SSH to log in as root on my system.
> Found .X0-lock, removed it, but when I restarted (shutdown -r now),
> the system still got in the same infinite loop.
>
> Attached is the output of /var/log/messages and /var/log/XFree86.0.log
> If you want more info, please let me know.
>
> Some more background info:
> The system is an old computer, with only 122MB RAM, and very
> low on memory:
>
> [root@(localhost) root]# df
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use%
> Mounted on
> /dev/hda2 2813760 2671532 0
> 100% /
> /dev/hda1 97570 14026 78506
> 16% /boot
> none 62668 0 62668
> 0% /dev/shm
>
> Any hints on how I could get my system back up and running, without
> reinstalling Red Hat are greatly appreciated (and, as a bonus, my CD
> tray doesn't work, which makes reinstalling from the CD no option)
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jeroen
>
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