[Leaplist] Serious computer trouble here

Kevin Korb kmk at sanitarium.net
Thu Feb 18 11:37:18 EST 2010 

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Is this a machine you can bring to the meeting tonight?
I will not be there but I am sure someone who can help will be.  Bring
the dead drive too since it sounds like you were probably still using it.

On 02/18/10 11:33, William Ferguson wrote:
> Kevin, as confessed above, I don't know how to  use a text editor and
> edit the /etc/fstab file.
> When I installed (mechanically) the New 500 GB Hard Drive I made no
> commands which might have recognized the new Hard Drive. I just
> connected up the new Hard Drive and re-booted. I thought Fedora would
> recognize the new device and configure it to work automatically.  Bad
> judgement, huh?
> 
> I understand that an /etc/fstab file can be altered but my level
> of command line usage and text editors is extremely primitive.
> 
> It follows that I would be unable to specify the "right devise." Would
> that be an "sda number" ?
> 
> Thanks to you and Bryan for trying.
> 
> William
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net> wrote:
> It sounds like you have a UUID specified in your /etc/fstab file that no
> longer exists.
> 
> While you are in single user mode you need to edit /etc/fstab and find
> out what that filesystem is.  If it is something that is no longer being
> used (as in maybe a temporary mount for the drive you removed) then
> comment the line and reboot.  If it is a filesystem you moved to a
> different device then you need to update the UUID string.  You can find
> out the UUID of the new filesystem with:
> tune2fs -l /dev/sd?? | grep UUID
> (of course change the ?? to the right device)
> 
> If you get a read only filesystem error on /etc/fstab then try:
> mount -nvo remount,rw /
> 
> On 02/17/10 16:21, William Ferguson wrote:
>>>> My main computer runs Fedora 11.  The computer originally had a single
>>>> internal Hard Drive of 500GB capacity. I later installed a second
>>>> internal Hard Drive with 250 GB capacity. Not long after installing
>>>> the 250 GB Hard Drive the original 500 GB Hard Drive Failed .
>>>>
>>>> Anticipating that I will soon download and install Fedora 12  I
>>>> decided it was time to remove the failed, original, internal, 500 GB
>>>> Hard Drive. My plan was to leave the 250 GB Hard Drive, which has
>>>> worked fine for months, in the computer and it contains all my present
>>>> files. I planned to install Fedora 12 on the new 500 GB Hard Drive and
>>>> use it for almost future computer work.
>>>>
>>>> So, today I removed the old, failed, 500 GB Hard Drive. I was careful
>>>> to ground myself on the metal chassis of the computer many times
>>>> during the mechanical work. Actually, the only work required was to
>>>> pull a flat  1/2 inch wide plastic plug and flat cable out of its Jack
>>>> and removed a 5 conductor plug and cable out of its Jack.
>>>>
>>>> With the computer's one removed side Panel re-installed, I booted up
>>>> the machine.
>>>>
>>>> Now I'm getting to what is wrong:
>>>> When I booted up the computer I hit "Scroll Lock" to freeze the opening screen.
>>>> "CPU: AMD Athlon 64 x 2  Dual core processor  4200 Speed 2.20 GHz  Count: 2
>>>>
>>>> Press F2 to run Setup
>>>> Press F11 for boot menu
>>>> Dual Channel memor mode
>>>> 3968 MB   OK
>>>> Auto detecting Pri Master .. Atapi CDROM
>>>> Auto Detecting Primary Slave ... Atapi CDROM
>>>> Autodetecting SATAII..IDE Hard Disk
>>>> Autodetecting SATAII 2... IDE Hard Disk
>>>> Pri Master: TSST corp CDDVDW SH-S202N SB01
>>>>         Ultra DMA Mode -4
>>>> Pri Slave: TSST corp CDDVDW SH-S202N SB01
>>>>         Ultra DMA Mode -4
>>>> SATAII:  ST3250310AS 4.AAA
>>>>         Ultra DMA Mode-6, S.M.A.R.T.  Capable but disabled
>>>> SATAII 2: ST3500418AS  CC38
>>>>         Ultra DMA Mode-6, S.M.A.R.T. Capable but disabled
>>>>
>>>> I hit ENTER and the Boot up process continued.
>>>> User sees a horizontally growing bar graph of changing shade of blue
>>>> color growing across
>>>> the bottom of the screen as boot up develops and finishes.
>>>>
>>>> Here's what came up on the screen:
>>>> "Starting udev
>>>>                                                                  OK
>>>> Setting host name   violin.home
>>>>                                                 OK
>>>> mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically
>>>> Setting up Logical Volume Management
>>>>                                      OK
>>>> Checking File Systems
>>>> /dev/sda8:  clean (big numbers of files and of blocks were displayed. Numbers
>>>>                              not the names of the files)
>>>> /fsck.ext3:   Unable to resolve 'UUID=a9758531-4fb3-4aa7-b357-5688de0cddcb'
>>>> /dev/sda7:  clean, 21837/1281120 files,  4360487/5120710 blocks
>>>> /dev/sda9:  clean,  (again, big numbers of files and blocks)"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> FAILED
>>>> ***An error occurred during the file system check.
>>>> ***Dropping you to a shell;  the system will reboot when you leave the shell*
>>>> ***Warning -- SELinux is active
>>>> ***Disabling security enforcement for ystem recovery.
>>>> ***Run 'setenforce 1'  to reenable'
>>>> Give root password for maintenance
>>>> (or Type Control-D to continue)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I typed the root passwword:
>>>> The screen then read:
>>>> "bash: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inapapropriate ioctl for
>>>>      device.
>>>> bash: no job control in this shell
>>>> (Repair filesystem) 1 #
>>>>
>>>> I tried Control-D
>>>> Response was: GNU GRUB version 0.97  (639K lower / 3013312K upper memory
>>>> A choice of 3 different Fedora 11 versions was offered.
>>>> Also offered were the options of booting the selected Op. System,
>>>> using 'e' to edit the commands before booting;  'a' to modify the
>>>> kernel arguments bfore booting, or 'c' for a command line.
>>>>
>>>> I typed df -h   The response was:  /dev/sda8  Size 20 G  Used 4.0 G
>>>> Avail 15 g Used 22%
>>>>                    Mounted on /
>>>>
>>>> ============================================================================
>>>> Is there any way for me to cure this condition?  The computer is unusable.
>>>> It seems that both the Hard Drives now installed in the machine are
>>>> "capable" but disabled.
>>>>
>>>> I know it's obvious that I don't how to handle this problem.
>>>>
>>>> Any advice and guidance will be much appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>>
>>>> William
>>>>
> 
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