System Recovery

[Mark Greene]

I'd start by booting it off of the system CD, run fsck on /var and see how
much of it is still intact.  Then check the system logs for hard drive and
PCI errors.

Good luck with it.

mark

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Labitt, Bruce <
labittb1 at tycoelectronics.com> wrote:

> What tools are available for recovery of a linux system?  I have no idea
> what happened - but my system took a dump.  SciLinux5.2 (RHEL5.2).  I
> make it through the text mode then go into the x detail mode.  I get a
> lot of daemons failing and the odd lines that say stuff like:
>
> touch cannot touch /var/lock/subsys : Not a directory
>
> can't create /var/run/dhclient-eth1.pid: Not a directory
>
> touch cannot touch 'var/lock/subsys/netplugd': Not a directory
>
>
> Then the line "Starting system logger:"  which takes minutes to complete
> - lots of failed module loads follow then I'm dumped out of X mode and
> get a text display which states
>
> "Server Authorization directory (daemon/ServAuthDir) is set to /var/gdm
> but this does not exist.  Please correct GDM configuration and restart
> GDM."
>
>
> This all happened when I started a K3b format of a DVD+RW disk - if it
> matters...  The system rebooted on me and I have been hosed ever since.
> I guess the first thing to do is to get what ever data off it that I can
> first...  I didn't think an application could cause this kind of carnage
> in linux...
>
> Is Knoppix live ok for this?  Something better?
>
> Bruce
>
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