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partition 2005-02-27 - By bj
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From: Steven J. Yellin [mailto:yellin@(protected)]
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 8:56 AM
To: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike)
Cc: bhamal@(protected)
Subject: Re: System stops because /var/log not found after moving to new
partition
More comments on the subject:
One way to test the effect of disabling dma is to "try setting
ide=nodma in your grub.conf or on the bootup command line" as suggested in
https://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-list/2003-June/msg01639.html . And
of course the problem might be that your disk is dying, in which case the
solution is to back up what you want to keep and then replace the disk.
Steven Yellin
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, Steven J. Yellin wrote:
> Your dmesg shows disk errors:
>
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
>
> Check that the cables are connected well. Maybe disabling dma would
> help (man hdparm, /etc/sysconfig/harddisks), though it would slow down
> your I/O.
>
> Steven Yellin
Hi!
Thank you for the prompt reply .
The cables are connected .
The error used appear even when my system booted fine before I moved the
/var /tmp & /usr .
SO it seems now my system has 2 errors .
1. the system needs to find the /var , /tmp & /usr
2. check on hdd degradation .
Here is on #1 .
Since I have Red Hat 8 , I had downloaded and installed (configure;make;make
install) the latest stable qt-x11-free-3 (See http://ree-3.ora-code.com).3.4 from the /home directory which
I moved .
My understanding was that wherever I downloaded the library will be still be
installed under /lib .
My /lib is where it was from the beginning . I have not moved it .
The system hangs means , the boot process shows "Starting system logger "
then just stays there because it could not find the new /var that has been
moved to /mnt/hda5/var .
The boot process also gives messages such as :-
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:line 596:/var/run/utmp : no such file or directory
/etc/rc.d/sysinit:line 744: /var/log/dmesg:no such file or directory
touch:creating 'var/lock/subsys/keytable" no such file
Hence , it does not find the moved var .
Please find attached the df & ls -l listings :-
ls
total 196
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 13 10:14 applications
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Feb 8 10:01 backup
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 5 04:15 bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 25 10:49 boot
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 118784 Feb 26 23:00 dev
drwxr-xr-x 70 root root 8192 Feb 26 23:01 etc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 21 2001 initrd
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Feb 4 22:49 lib
drwx-- --- 2 root root 16384 Jun 26 2004 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 27 2002 misc
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Feb 26 08:44 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 23 1999 opt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 26 22:32 other
dr-xr-xr-x 33 root root 0 Feb 26 18:00 proc
drwxr-x--- 31 root root 4096 Feb 25 10:52 root
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8192 Feb 4 23:04 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 5 04:10 tftpboot
df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 4134932 410416 3514468 11% /
/dev/hda5 10056868 284348 9261656 3% /mnt/hda5
/dev/hda6 19765692 4879948 13881684 27% /mnt/hda6
none 256972 0 256972 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 1025840 535856 489984 53% /mnt/usb
Thanks,
bj
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