From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Korosi Akos" Subject: Re[2]: Strange problem Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 16:31:46 +0100 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030122153153.28193.qmail@web1.mailbox.hu> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20030117102213.021b4900@celine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20030117102213.021b4900@celine> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Newbie 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 wrote >You really haven't told us enough for good diagnosis. From what you di= d > write, I'd guess there is a problem with mounting partitions other than > the=20 > root (/) one (maybe including /, depending on the details of the /etc= =20 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 th= e > root=20 =2E.. > almost=20 > never is (I've never seen a case where it was, and doing it that way > would=20 > 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=20 > mounted RW (and that they are actually mounted as ext3, not ext2). Tr= y > (as=20 > root) umount'ing them, then fsck'ing them, in case they failed an > automated=20 > fsck during init (this seems farfetched since you use ext3 filesystems, > but=20 > 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=20 > 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=20 > 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=20 > error messages instead of paraphrasing them. I can not do this anymore, but the error messages that I=20 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 ________________________________________________ http://mailbox.hu - M=E1r SMS =E9rtes=EDt=E9ssel is! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie"= in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs