Inconsistency detected .... and kernel panic

Inconsistency detected .... and kernel panic

[Tony Gogoi]

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.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.

Any suggestions ? (for a novice)

Email service hasn't suffered as the other email server is currently being
used, but would like to get the failed server up and running.

Thanks,
Tony

Re: Inconsistency detected .... and kernel panic

[Juan Carlos Inostroza]

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

Re: Inconsistency detected .... and kernel panic

[Matías López Bergero]

Juan Carlos Inostroza wrote:
>>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

Yeah, I had the same kind of error with libc, init uses that library.
Try to restore the library from your backups (?) or with your package 
manager.

Regards!
Matías.




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