Topic: PANIC !!!!!

[EdelingF]

I've tried to install WebGUI following Ergin's How-To http://Http://ergin.dyndns.org/download/webgui/webgui603.htm and after instruction number 4 I got al lot of errors and since that moment I can't do anything with my server anymore.
I tried to reboot but I get the message that I can't mount or unmount, only the root can do that.
The error I get is:
grep: /proc/mounts: no such file or directory

Is there any hope for any repair, please say yes.......
 

/proc/ is empty

/etc/fstab:

LABEL=/     /          ext3    usrquota,grpquota
1  1
LABEL=/boot /boot       ext3    defaults          1  2
none        /dev/pts    devpts  gid=5,mode=620    0  0
/dev/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom  iso9660 noauto,owner,ro   0  0
/dev/fdo    /mnt/floppy auto    noauto,owner      0  0
none        /proc       proc    defaults          0  0
none        /dev/shm    tmpfs   defaults          0  0
/dev/hda2   swap        swap    defaults          0  0

/etc/mtab:

/dev/hda3 /ext3 rw,usrquota,grpquota 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bs/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0

[Jon_Reynolds]

Hello,

I looked at your post and then at the howto you followed. Here is what Step 4 says:

4. Move files to Apache DocumentRoot, chown and chmod...
[root@smeserver601 root]# mv WebGUI /home/e-smith/files/primary/html/
[root@smeserver601 root]# cd /home/e-smith/files/primary/html/
[root@smeserver601 html]# chown -R www.www /

The last line looks as if it would change the permissions on your entire box to www.www, did this happen? If so, you will probably want to reinstall and ask the author of the howto to clarify this step a little more.

Hope that helps,

Jon

[satovey]

It appears that when you got to step
4. Move files to Apache DocumentRoot, chown and chmod...
[root@smeserver601 root]# mv WebGUI /home/e-smith/files/primary/html/
[root@smeserver601 root]# cd /home/e-smith/files/primary/html/
[root@smeserver601 html]# chown -R www.www /

You neglected to cd (change directories to
your /home/e-smith/files/primary which
actually should be /home/e-smith/files/ibays/primary/html

What you could try before an install is boot from your
floppy reinstall disk if you made one and if it works
you can reinstall the system that way. Or if you have
a promp, you can issue the chown -R root.root command
and reboot.

If your whole systems permissions were inadvertently
changed to user www group www, it is likely that
is will not boot.

Now if you get the thing back up and running, you
will need to install the dev tools in order to
install the perl modules that you will need in
order to run WebGUI.

I have it working on my system with some miner
bugs at this point. None of the icons show up
so I have to figure out why. It doesn't make
much sense to me.

[Jon_Reynolds]

Hey Satovey,

I ahd a similiar problem with qmailadmin when I set it up. It worked but there was no icons or pictures. A look thriugh the logs showed me where it was looking for the images and I then found those images and moved them to the directory it was looking for them in and it all worked. Maybe the same thing is happening to you with the WebGUI?

Jon

[the_mad_prof]

Hi,

On a different tack, how about using knoppix to boot the system and either fix or get the important info off there?

[satovey]

Hey Satovey,

I ahd a similiar problem with qmailadmin when I set it up. It worked but there was no icons or pictures. A look thriugh the logs showed me where it was looking for the images and I then found those images and moved them to the directory it was looking for them in and it all worked. Maybe the same thing is happening to you with the WebGUI?

Jon

Thanks, I'll try that.

[satovey]

Hi,

On a different tack, how about using knoppix to boot the system and either fix or get the important info off there?

Knopix, like the sme install cd will not boot on
my system. I get a kernel panic.

But thanks for the suggestions:)

[the_mad_prof]

That suggests there may also be a hardware fault.  Have you changed anything?

[satovey]

That suggests there may also be a hardware fault.  Have you changed anything?

No, However, I did finally get the cdrw to mount.
That took a lot of googling.

The system is a pcchips mother board with a
650 AMD processor, 256 Meg of Ram and a
52X maxx memeorex cdrw drive. It seems
that I get a lilo panic at about he time
that the system is trying to mount a drive.
Most likely the ram drive that is created.

I can run the mandrake live cd with no problems.
This tells me that it must be a configuration
issue, otherwise I should have the same issues
with all live CDs.

The hard part will be in finding what the issue
is and how to fix it.

Scott