From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G0Eqk-00080U-K0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:48:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6B9jqKJ031939; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:45:52 GMT Received: from smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.6]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6B9jpcn002563 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:45:51 GMT Received: from [172.23.170.145] (helo=anti-virus03-08) by smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G0EoQ-0006SZ-SY for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:45:50 +0100 Received: from [82.33.156.118] (helo=linuxstation.homenetwork) by asmtp-out6.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G0EoQ-0007DI-9V for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:45:50 +0100 Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] dma? From: Gavin Seddon To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200607111124.45944.hermes@home.se> References: <1152608536.3568.15.camel@linuxstation.homenetwork> <200607111124.45944.hermes@home.se> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: University of Manchester Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:43:51 +0100 Message-Id: <1152611031.6545.0.camel@linuxstation.homenetwork> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ecc97edd-04a0-4b95-9d2e-cf155e369fa6 X-Archives-Hash: 40595b78072a21fb38ce2b29d588961b Many thanks Andreas. On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 11:24 +0200, Andreas Karlsson wrote: > On Tuesday 11 July 2006 11:02, Gavin Seddon wrote: > > Hi, > > I am using Reiser on a couple of my partitions. When booting it informs > > me the 'dma is turned off, this is slowing down fs checking. Also, > > occasionall I am instructed to ctrl D for a reboot. Is this normal for > > reiser? And, how do I turn dma on? A similar situation occurred with > > all ext3 filesystems then afte about 1 yr the root partition developed > > significant errors and wouldn't boot. So I put reiser on it. What do > > you think's up? It appears to me to be a broken hdd? > > Gavin. > > > Hi, > > Looks like the system was turned off without cleanly unmounting all > partitions. This should trigger a filesystem check at next reboot. The > message with Ctrl-D to reboot does also contain a oppertunity to login as > root (just type roots password). This is due to the fact that fsck.reiserfs > was unable to repair certan problems and needs to be run with optional > parameters that you must manually specify; probably --rebuild-tree. > > A solution would be to boot up the system normaly and then enter runlevel 1 by > using the command "init 1" as root. Next umount the partition that is having > problems and do a "chkfs.reiserfs /dev/[your-partition]" and see if that > helps, otherwise do a "chkfs.reiserfs /dev/[your-partition] --rebuild-tree". > This helped me after some bad thunderstorms that caused blackouts last summer > and corrupted some of my partitions on my file server. > > Best regards, > Andreas Karlsson > Sweden -- Dr Gavin Seddon Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road M13 9PL UK -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list