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List:       linux-newbie
Subject:    Re[2]: Strange problem
From:       "Korosi Akos" <korosiakos () mailbox ! hu>
Date:       2003-01-22 15:31:46
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Hi!

I have reinstalled RH8.0, because I had to make the
machine work.
But as I am curious about the problem, I will answer
the questions.

Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com> wrote

>You really haven't told us enough for good diagnosis. From what you did

> write, I'd guess there is a problem with mounting partitions other
than
> the 
> root (/) one (maybe including /, depending on the details of the /etc 

I had everything on 1 partition and used the other partitions
(mounted into /mnt) for data storage.
So the / was on the same partition as /etc /boot and also
everything else.
And the programs were able to open some files, but other
not.

> problems you allude to). User root's home directory is normally on the
> root 
...
> almost 
> never is (I've never seen a case where it was, and doing it that way
> would 
> cause real problems during init).

Every directory was on the same partition.
(except explicitli mounted directories)

> Check the status of mounted partitions in /etc/mtab to verify that
they
> are 
> mounted RW (and that they are actually mounted as ext3, not ext2). Try
> (as 
> root) umount'ing them, then fsck'ing them, in case they failed an
> automated 
> fsck during init (this seems farfetched since you use ext3
filesystems,
> but 
> it's all I can think of).

I checked the partitions during boot, and nothing was found.
I can not check mtab now :-(

> Since this happened after a reboot (at least I think that's what you 
> wrote), you might want to verify that you are running the same kernel
as
> you were before the reboot.

There was only one kernel...

> I'd classify the chance that this is a virus as quite small. The
> hard-reset 
> question does make me think of fsck problems with the filesystems.

Actually when I turned off the machine, there were [FAILED]
programs (eg xfs, etc) and they weren't always the same.
This was the reason that I thought about viruses.

> If that doesn't turn up anything, post again, this time quoting the
> actual 
> error messages instead of paraphrasing them.

I can not do this anymore, but the error messages that I 
wrote were nearly the actual, this means I didn't wore the
meaning of them, but what I saw, only when I wanted to
log in as a user, I can't see the message for a long time,
so I wasn't sure.

As I can not give you more actual information about the
system (because it has been reinstalled), I don't know if
you could guess the source of the problem.
But I want to than you Ray for the guesses!

Best regards,
Akos


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