On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 12:31 -0500, Anil Kumar Sharma wrote: > Hello list, > I Booted nicely into FC4 / KDE, and was trying to set ALSA sound > parameters to make the 6 channels work correctly (they were going here > ,there and no-where) then I saw this > > 1. while opening konsole and error appeared (twice) > > fgrep: error while lkoading sharedlibrary, /lib/libpcre.so.0: cannot > read file data: invalid argument > fgrep: error while lkoading sharedlibrary, /lib/libpcre.so.0: cannot > read file data: invalid argument > > but allowed to work in konsole > > 2. then there was a full lockup, no mouse, no keboard response, > therefore no virtual console also. I had to press reset button. > > 3. Then FC4 refused to boot; boot process starts and comes upto a > stage and hangs > following is as best I could note as seen on screen > > quote > ... > ... > INIT: Version 2.85 booting > fgrep: error while lkoading sharedlibrary, /lib/libpcre.so.0: cannot > read file data: invalid argument > fgrep: error while lkoading sharedlibrary, /lib/libpcre.so.0: cannot > read file data: invalid argument > setting defaull font (latarcyrheb-sun16): OK > Welcome to fgrep: error while lkoading sharedlibrary, > /lib/libpcre.so.0: cannot read file data: invalid argument > fgrep: error while lkoading sharedlibrary, /lib/libpcre.so.0: cannot > read file data: invalid argument > ... > ... > ... > Initializing hardware ... > > Unquote > here it hangs like ctrl-alt-del not working but numlok capsloak > working, onlyway to proceed is reset button > > Computer is working as I writing this via knoppix....CD > > I have the root on /dev/sda3 (ext3) partition and rest of linux on > /dev/sda4 LVM2 > did you run fsck on /dev/sda3 and on the logical volumes within /dev/sda4 while booted to knoppix? The error is while loading the OS, and does not appear to have anything to do with /home. > > # sfdisk -l > Disk /dev/sda: 9733 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track > Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 > > Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 0+ 1215 1216- 9767488+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda2 1216 7820 6605 53054662+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/sda3 7821 7836 16 128520 83 Linux > /dev/sda4 7837 9732 1896 15229620 8e Linux LVM > /dev/sda5 1216+ 2593 1378- 11068753+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda6 2594+ 4505 1912- 15358108+ b W95 FAT32 > /dev/sda7 4506+ 7820 3315- 26627706 b W95 FAT32 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > So dear friends help me recover the LVM /home partition > Please tell me how > 1. to repair through the rescue disk.. > 2. to mount LVM in this case > > > > I suspect that as soon as a request to access /dev/sda4 is made the > error appears; I may be inaccurate. > > -- > Anil Kumar Shrama >
