From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KIccb-000666-Db for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:58:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D59F2E034C; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:58:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFD4BE034C for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:58:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E7C2662D8 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:58:38 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.599 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.599 required=5.5 tests=[BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Nb4lCYUDwVQk for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:58:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9819B662F6 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:58:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KIccK-0004Pe-25 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:58:24 +0000 Received: from athedsl-308599.home.otenet.gr ([85.73.253.21]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:58:24 +0000 Received: from realnc by athedsl-308599.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:58:24 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Unable to mount root dir, Segmentation failure with mount Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:58:11 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <1216064454-20755-mlmmj-6fbde1ed@lists.gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-308599.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080421 Thunderbird/2.0.0.14 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 In-Reply-To: Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: b9018797-999a-4e36-acdd-a585ee2c1112 X-Archives-Hash: 30f0d434f2adec772fea0cec6a78255d pge07beb@studserv.uni-leipzig.de wrote: > > Hi gentoo-users, > > I'm running Gentoo flawlessly on my laptop for nearly one year now, but > since yesterday, I'm in big trouble. At some instance (surfing in the > web,.. nothing horrible) the screen froze and the only thing I was able > to do, was pressing the power button 4seconds to shut the computer down. > > I was never able to boot my system since then. > > It sayed always things like: Not able to find root file system (or > likewise) There was good advice from the other users here, but also try a live CD with a more recent kernel (Gentoo 2008.0-r1 for example, or something else like openSUSE 11). Also, if removing the journal doesn't work, try to mount it as ext2 (ext3 is backwards compatible with ext2 so doing that is perfectly OK). As to the cause of this, I suspect a hardware failure due to overheating (laptops tend to do that if you don't open them and give them a thorough cleaning each 10 months or so). I'm an overclocker and things like this can happen when a CPU or chipset overheats (corrupted data starts to get written on disk). The other possibility is that the drive is dying (damaged sectors). -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list