Topic: Please help,Server hangs at finding module dependencies

[Dennis]

Have SME 5.1.2 on my server for over a year...was having problems with accessing mail outside network. rebooted server,
mounted proc filesystem ok
configuring kernel parameters ok
setting clock ok
activating swap partitions ok
setting hostname server ok
mounting usb filesystem ok
initializing usb controler ok
checking root filesystem/
was not cleanly unmounted,checked forced(0.5%non-continguous) passed
remounting root filesystem in read write mode ok
now hangs at finding module dependencies.

cannot run fsck
could use some input please.

[RavenIV]

is it you with the same problem again?

why did you post your message twice in this forum?
if you give more details and ask an understandable question , we can help you.

see your other post for more comments...

cheers klaus

[Dennis]

People I am sorry for the double post...I must have clicked twice on submit. Also ..seriously considering upgrading..is 6.0 stable yet?...and will I loose any info or files?

Thanks for being so Patient with me.

[Anonymous]

Also ..seriously considering upgrading..is 6.0 stable yet?...and will I loose any info or files?

If it hangs are you locked out from your server. I had a system not working (5.5) and one of the employees rebooted and then it hung. (this brings up the question - should one install a patch to prevent control-alt-delete)  We needed it so I was swapping harddrives and discovered the cable had gone bad to the ethernet switch which is what started the problem in the 1st place.  So I re-installed old drive and by using control - c at hang and was able to boot sort of. Good enough to retrieve all data to a workstation but yet could not actually go to root on server. And could not upgrade because system saw a corruption problem and refused to upgrade.

I went to version 6  by clean install and regret using version 6. - version 6 mostly works well - but I found multi-drop did not work. Also have a program that I used for upload via a web page to email which is not working now. Though I am still hoping to get this to work.

I would suggest going to 5.6 if you need the system - only go to 6 if you want to do something not possible with 5.6 or for home experimentation.- You can upgrade versions much more easily than downgrading I think.

Consider 5.6 the leading edge, and 6.0.1 the bleeding edge.

Ken

Ken Graham