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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I3zO5-0000v4-H9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:10:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5SJ9P5D013302; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:09:25 GMT Received: from gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de (gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de [134.76.163.126]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l5SJ3D8P005354 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:03:13 GMT Received: by gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de (Postfix, from userid 8) id 9C7C53246B4; Mon, 2 Jul 2007 16:50:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (unknown [134.76.161.221]) by gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 041263246B3 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2007 16:50:01 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:03:12 +0200 From: Hans-Werner Hilse To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem after 'fsck' on mounted filesystem Message-Id: <20070628210312.7532c893.hilse@web.de> In-Reply-To: <468401B1.6030003@electronsweatshop.com> References: <468401B1.6030003@electronsweatshop.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.2 (GTK+ 2.10.13; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=ham version=2.64 X-Archives-Salt: 25ccb4a7-1c01-4aac-8acd-bf8a18b742fb X-Archives-Hash: d1d51cb323daaa3c47ef18416a7b29a1 Hi, On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:45:05 -0500 Randy Barlow wrote: > Xihong Yin wrote: > > I had run "fsck" on the mounted filesystem. I think this is the > > problem. > > What were the results? Irrelevant (since it was mounted) -- except if it was mounted read only. If the OP really ran an fsck on a writable filesystem, all kinds of errors might have occured. To the OP: - was the partition mounted writable? - what are you actually entering at the prompt (i.e. what runlevel)? - did you try starting from a live CD and fsck'ing the -- unmounted -- partitions? -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list