Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:25:02 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca> Cc: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: repair v.7 installation Message-ID: <20081128201639.B934@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <493064D3.6020202@videotron.ca> References: <492FFDF8.1020705@videotron.ca> <ggp340$19f$1@ger.gmane.org> <493064D3.6020202@videotron.ca>
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On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, PJ wrote:
[...]
> 1. On boot up and just before the crash there were warnings of an
> "interrupt storm" whatever that may mean and then there are messages
> about bad file descriptor; and there is a WARNING / was not properly
> dismounted (obviously because of the hardware problem) and "init
> /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormally, going to single user
> mode....
Last time I saw a "bad file descriptor" it was due to disk problems
caused by a power hit since I had no UPS on that machine. In that case I
was able to recover using the manufacturer's utility ("seatools" for the
Seagate disk).
> 2. on bootup, there is a warning - /etc/rc WARNING run_rc_command:
> cannot run /usr/sbin/inetd
>
> 3. for login : in openpam_load_module (): no pam_opie.so found
>
> 4. login: pam_start(): system error
>
> 5. fsck gets wrong superblocks and cannot fix anything
>
> 6. When in single user mode, cannot access /usr or /var
>
> So, now I get the feeling that the installation is completely screwed.
> What I would like to recover is onle a bunch of files on the /usr
> partition like the web stuff for apache and some other files.
All of these things smell like disk problems to me. But what do I know.
> What are my options? is there a way I could access these files?
Booting from a live CD to recover your files to another drive has bee
suggested, and that's a good idea. Apart from that, I would try the
drive manufacturer's recovery tools before abandoning the system. Check
their website and see if they don't have a bootable ISO with some sort
of disk tools.
HTH, and good luck.
--
Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org
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