Re: [gentoo-user] Problem after 'fsck' on mounted filesystem

[Dale]

Xihong Yin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried fsck.ext3 on the unmount partitions. It is not fixing. I still get the
> asking for input runlevel. No matter what runlevel you input, it always
> response with "no more process left on this runlevel".
>
> Xihong
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:45:05 -0500 Randy Barlow
>> <randy@×××××××××××××××××.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Xihong Yin wrote:
>>>
>>>> I had run "fsck" on the mounted filesystem. I think this is the
>>>> problem.
>>>>
>>> What were the results?
>>>
>> Irrelevant (since it was mounted) -- except if it was mounted read
>> only. If the OP really ran an fsck on a writable filesystem, all kinds
>> of errors might have occured.
>>
>> To the OP:
>> - was the partition mounted writable?
>> - what are you actually entering at the prompt (i.e. what runlevel)?
>> - did you try starting from a live CD and fsck'ing the -- unmounted --
>>   partitions?
>>
>> -hwh
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This may not help but you may want to check your inittab file and make
sure it is OK.  It should look like this:

> # Default runlevel.
> id:3:initdefault:
>
> # System initialization, mount local filesystems, etc.
> si::sysinit:/sbin/rc sysinit
>
> # Further system initialization, brings up the boot runlevel.
> rc::bootwait:/sbin/rc boot
>
> l0:0:wait:/sbin/rc shutdown
> l1:S1:wait:/sbin/rc single
> l2:2:wait:/sbin/rc nonetwork
> l3:3:wait:/sbin/rc default
> l4:4:wait:/sbin/rc default
> l5:5:wait:/sbin/rc default
> l6:6:wait:/sbin/rc reboot
> #z6:6:respawn:/sbin/sulogin
>
> # TERMINALS
> c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
> c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
> c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
> c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
> c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
> c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux
>
> # SERIAL CONSOLES
> #s0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS0 vt100
> #s1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS1 vt100
>
> # What to do at the "Three Finger Salute".
> ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -r now
>
> # Used by /etc/init.d/xdm to control DM startup.
> # Read the comments in /etc/init.d/xdm for more
> # info. Do NOT remove, as this will start nothing
> # extra at boot if /etc/init.d/xdm is not added
> # to the "default" runlevel.
> x:a:once:/etc/X11/startDM.sh

I ran into this problem once and my inittab file was empty. 

Hope that helps, may not but maybe it will.

Dale

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