RE: System stops because /var/log not found after moving to new partition

["bj" <bhamal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven J. Yellin [mailto:yellin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 8:56 AM
To: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike)
Cc: bhamal@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: System stops because /var/log not found after moving to new
partition


    More comments on the subject:
    One way to test the effect of disabling dma is to "try setting
ide=nodma in your grub.conf or on the bootup command line" as suggested in
https://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-list/2003-June/msg01639.html . And
of course the problem might be that your disk is dying, in which case the
solution is to back up what you want to keep and then replace the disk.

Steven Yellin

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, Steven J. Yellin wrote:

>     Your dmesg shows disk errors:
>
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
>
>     Check that the cables are connected well.  Maybe disabling dma would
> help (man hdparm, /etc/sysconfig/harddisks), though it would slow down
> your I/O.
>
> Steven Yellin




Hi!

Thank you for the prompt reply .

The cables are connected .

The error used appear even when my system booted fine before I moved the
/var /tmp & /usr .

SO it seems now my system has 2 errors .

1. the system needs to find the /var , /tmp & /usr
2. check on hdd degradation .


Here is on #1 .

Since I have Red Hat 8 , I had downloaded and installed (configure;make;make
install) the latest stable qt-x11-free-3.3.4 from the /home directory which
I moved .

My understanding was that wherever I downloaded the library will be still be
installed under /lib .

My /lib is where it was from the beginning . I have not moved it .

The system hangs means , the boot process shows "Starting system logger "
then just stays there because it could not find the new /var that has been
moved to /mnt/hda5/var .

The boot process also gives messages such as :-

/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:line 596:/var/run/utmp : no such file or directory

/etc/rc.d/sysinit:line 744: /var/log/dmesg:no such file or directory

touch:creating  'var/lock/subsys/keytable" no such file

Hence , it does not find the moved var .

Please find attached the df & ls -l listings :-

ls

total 196
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Feb 13 10:14 applications
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         4096 Feb  8 10:01 backup
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Feb  5 04:15 bin
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Feb 25 10:49 boot
drwxr-xr-x   21 root     root       118784 Feb 26 23:00 dev
drwxr-xr-x   70 root     root         8192 Feb 26 23:01 etc
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jun 21  2001 initrd
drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root         4096 Feb  4 22:49 lib
drwx------    2 root     root        16384 Jun 26  2004 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Aug 27  2002 misc
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root         4096 Feb 26 08:44 mnt
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Aug 23  1999 opt
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Feb 26 22:32 other
dr-xr-xr-x   33 root     root            0 Feb 26 18:00 proc
drwxr-x---   31 root     root         4096 Feb 25 10:52 root
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         8192 Feb  4 23:04 sbin
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Feb  5 04:10 tftpboot

df

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2              4134932    410416   3514468  11% /
/dev/hda5             10056868    284348   9261656   3% /mnt/hda5
/dev/hda6             19765692   4879948  13881684  27% /mnt/hda6
none                    256972         0    256972   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1              1025840    535856    489984  53% /mnt/usb

Thanks,
bj






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