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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: henrika on April 26, 2004, 01:16:45 PM
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Hi all
I’ve got some SME server v.5.6 running, but got a problem with one of them.
It wont boot anymore, when it come to “Freeing unused kernel memory ……”, it just stop.
I’ve tried some other memory blocks, thinking it was a memory problem and another machine, still the same.
If I try to update it to v6.0.1, I get an error about the file system hasn’t been unmountet the right way and I’m only able to do a reinstall (don’t want to do that – used way to many hours on it :) ).
Anyone got any ideas to how I can get the box running again, or to how I can unmount the file syste right, so I can update the server to 6.0.1?
TIA
Henrik
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Search here for "fsck".
Find out harddisk vendor and check HD with one of their tools. Usually those tools just want to create a bootdiskette and ran four several hours. If you are unlucky, Linux partitions cannot be checked, read the infos about the tools beforehand.
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Why haven't I thought on fsck :oops:
Think I've found some info I can use to get it running again.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction mbachmann ;-)
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Most complete description found in this document describing "powstatd" ... kudos to rmitchell ...
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/smeserver/contribs/rmitchell/smeserver/howto/powstatd%20HOWTO%20for%20sme%20server.htm
To start up in single user mode, press Ctrl X when you see the e-smith, Mitel or sme logo appear on the screen after a reboot. This will start the server at a lilo text prompt.
For sme version 6.0
Type:
Mitel-SME-up
or
Mitel-SME-smp
For sme version 5.6
Type:
Mitel-SME single
or
Mitel-SME 1
For sme version 5.5, 5.1.2, 5.0, 4.1.2 or earlier
Type:
esmith single
or
esmith 1
This boots the server into single user mode.
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I had to make a clean install, fsck couldn’t fix the hard drive errors :-(
Thanks for the suggestions for fixing the boot problem