System Recovery

[Labitt, Bruce]

Thanks.  It appears that I cannot descend into /var, but I can go into
other root directories.

 

What would be the recommended fsck options?

 

#fsck -CV /var -n  ?

 

-Bruce

 

 

 

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From: Mark Greene [mailto:prgrmr at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 10:34 AM
To: gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org
Cc: Labitt, Bruce
Subject: Re: System Recovery

 

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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