From: Juan Carlos Inostroza <jci@tux.cl>
To: Linux Admin <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Inconsistency detected .... and kernel panic
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:57:53 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1078930672.1526.3.camel@booster> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.56.0403100930040.28701@hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 11:49, Tony Gogoi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem which I'm not able to figure out.
>
> We have 2 email servers. Both these have /var/spool/mail on an NFS server.
>
> One of the email servers has RAID-1 storage and this has a problem. As one
> of the hard disks of the RAID-1 failed, our network administrator replaced
> a hard disk last week. He left the company at the end of the week.
>
> This week, while trying to add a new user to the email server the
> "adduser" command failed.
That error message is the same as below?
> The "chattr" command in the adduser script
> probably failed as the permissions on the file it tried to change
> (/etc/passwd as far as I remember) did have read-write permissions
> (verified by ls -l).
>
> On rebooting this server, I get
> Inconsistency detected by
> ld.so:../sysdeps/i386/dl-machine.h:385:_dl_relocate_object:Assertion
> '((reloc->r_info) & 0ff)=8' failed.
> Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill init.
Yeah, init cannot start. Maybe some of the dependencies (libraries) are
missing or corrupt.
> Any suggestions ? (for a novice)
Looks like some libraries are missing (happened me a couple of times
with a missing libc, but not with the same message).
Try to boot the server using some live-cd distro and try to
remount/chroot and make a deep check (my suggestion, check for
installed/uninstalled packages, rootkits and such).
--jci
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-10 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-10 14:49 Inconsistency detected .... and kernel panic Tony Gogoi
2004-03-10 14:57 ` Juan Carlos Inostroza [this message]
2004-03-10 21:16 ` Matías López Bergero
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