Problems with home server

[Stephen]

It might also be worth getting the HDD manufacturers diagnostics and
see if the disk is 100% also.

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Technomage <technomage.hawke at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would use a live cd to check that one. you may have a severe enough file
> corruption that using even single user mode might encounter problems. after
> you check and certify the system disc has no problems, I would start testing
> the networking hardware using the same disc. if it runs into problems, you
> may have to replace hardware (if a surge made it through the protector, then
> its likely your supply is flaky and the MB may have also taken the hit ).
>
> I have had to deal with this scenario more often than once. When a Power
> strip surge protector finally buys it, it tends to leave your system exposed
> for a brief period of time during the surge that blew to the protector. This
> can have unanticipated effects on your hardware.
>
> anyway, I hope its nothing more serious that an easily corrected filesystem.
>
>
>
> On 7/26/10 11:38 AM, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
>>
>> So I run a fedora based server in my house. Recently I had the local
>> surge suppressor tip out and drop all my boxes. The server had wired
>> problems ever since. I can not log into a local X session (it hangs
>> trying to load a desktop) and I can not read files from the samba
>> server (I can see the files but not access them). I can login over ssh
>> and all the files are there.  So I was thinking I would just run a
>> quick fsck and see what turned up before doing a tar and export of the
>> files and a wipe and rebuild of the server.
>> However this is where I ran into trouble. i can get into single user
>> mode no problem but I can not unmount the main partition? umount
>> /de/VolGroup00/LogVol100 -f just returns - I am way to busy. But the
>> only things I can see running are disk and council related related
>> processes. lsof returns the stranded stuff /, /sbin/, /dev/counsole/,
>> proc[#]/exe/, etc.
>>
>> But I do see lib64/ld-2.9.so, /lib64/libc-2.9.so,
>> /usr/lib64/libplybootsplash.so.2.0.0,  and
>> /usr/lib64/libpng12.s0.0.37.0 as well - not sure why those files are
>> open in single user mode - but in any case I can not umount the volume
>> with -f so I can fschk.ext3 it Suggestions?
>>
>> And yes the drive is encrypted using the red hat / fedora standard
>> encryption. This is why I used fedora at the time and not cent OS for
>> this server, it made drive encryption very easy and reliable.
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