Topic: System boot problem

[Mike]

Hi guys

Having a serious problem with my SME 6.0 Beta 3 that I am running on a Athlon XP2200 with 512Mb of memory and an 200Gb Maxtor drive in it. The system is just a few months old and was running like it should, very stabile, but I needed to rebooted it just for a little thing.

So I have rebooted my system but it did not come up again.
The message was something like this:
/: ... (inode # 1786599, mod time Fri Aug 1 11.45.08 2003)
/:
/: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY
(ie , without -a or -p options
and so on.

I searched the forum and came up with fsck /
The system went through the whole repair routine, he even had to expand the lost+found because there was not enough space in the lost+found directory.
It really looked like it had removed a few files at the beginning of the disk and had to recover every thing coming after those files.
It took quite a while.
Result: Really a whole lot of lost+found files, the system is booting again but all my Ibays can only be read, not written.
When I tried to copy some files to an Ibay I get an I/O error on my windows box saying that there was an I/O problem writing to the Ibay.
I am having the same problems with every Ibay.

The most strange thing is that I have had the exact same problem with my previous system. Totally different hardware exept for a 200Gb harddisk only this was a Western Digital. The system was a Intel Pentium III with 256Mb of memory and a 200Gb WD running SME 5.6 so also the version of SME was different and not a Beta version!!!
This is only a few months ago.

Linux should be much more stabile as windows but it looks like the EXT3 filesystem is unable to maintain itself.
Anyone else running with such large harddisks?
If anyone has an idea how to get ahead of this problem for the future, I'm listening.

Also found this thread:
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=7648.msg28146#msg28146

Author: RequestedDeletion (RequestedDeletion.wang_AT_star-support.com)
Date:   05-15-03 11:46

1. when the system boots and you see the MITEL screen, press CTRL-X
2. Login with 'MITEL-SME single'
3. run the checktools
4. after that reboot normally

Can someone tell me what checktools there are available in SME and how to start them.

Thanks upfront.

Mike

[Mike]

update:
I now have 2550 lost+found objects.
I am bound to be missing files from my system.
The only option seems to be a reinstall.

[John Crisp]

Just in case, make sure that you get hold of the manufacturers test software and give the disk a thorough going over before re-installing - it MAY just be that it has died on you.

Best regards,

John

[Mike]

Hi John

You could be right but I don´t think so, especially if I have had the problem on 2 different harddisks that only happened to be 200Gb in size.
This Maxtor is just about 2 months old and I have checked the disk before installing the SME on it with a special Maxtor Utility just to be sure that it did not have any failures.
That would be too much of a coincidence.
Also I have had no problems upto the time of reboot.
If the harddisk would be faulty you notice it on the speed of a heavy copy which I do very much.
But don´t think it didn´t cross my mind.

Do you know what harddisk check and repair programs are available on the SME.

[mark]

try on one of the ibays you need to log into the sme box and then
try chmod 7777  the directory then see if you can write to one that also my save you doing a reinstall