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I need some help please. I recently applied some patches and I don't know if any apply to this problem or not. After applying patches to hal, kdelibs, dbus and some others, my mouse locked-up. Restart X and same - no mouse. Reboot and now I don't even get shell login. What I get is something like:

 

/dev/fb0

umount /initrd/sys

failed: 16

mounting systs on /sys

FATAL: module not found.

 

Then goes on to say:

no superblock found on /dev/sda1

e2fsck.....

 

login to repair login and run e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sda1 and same thing.

boot from Knoppix live DVD and run e2fsck /dev/sda1 and says clean.

 

I've checked my fstab and my lilo.conf. Both seem fine. This happens with every kernel version I select in Lilo menu as well as failsafe. Any help is appreciated.

 

[moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

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What did it say after you ran:

 

e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sda1

 

I'm curious, as you said "and same thing", so not sure if you meant you rebooted after and still got the error?

 

How did you do the updates? Did you just select specifics? Or everything that was listed?

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It said no superblock was found on /dev/sda1 try using e2fsck -b 8193 etc, etc...

 

I updated through mandriva update and from what I can remember, there were some MDE files such as kdelibs-3.5.2-? and libkde's; Non-MDE files: hal-v.v.v, dbus-v.v.v, and clamav, clamd updates. Selected them all except hylafax. Completed normally. While refreshing the selection, mouse locked up.

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Sounds like a disk problem to me. ext3 has a way of recovering itself if it gets corrupted as it has two superblocks to read from. If the first one gets trashed, it can use the second superblock to recover. If both superblocks have gone, then you've got problems.

 

Try booting from the livecd and then typing this:

 

dumpe2fs /dev/sda1

 

and see what it reports back. Using:

 

dumpe2fs -h /dev/sda1

 

will filter and only display superblock information.

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Result:

sudo dumpe2fs -h /dev/sda1
dumpe2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
Filesystem volume name:   root
Last mounted on:		  <not available>
Filesystem UUID:		  4c3b741d-0858-4998-9b78-34b3e804b99e
Filesystem magic number:  0xEF53
Filesystem revision #:	1 (dynamic)
Filesystem features:	  has_journal filetype sparse_super
Default mount options:	(none)
Filesystem state:		 clean
Errors behavior:		  Continue
Filesystem OS type:	   Linux
Inode count:			  1311552
Block count:			  2622603
Reserved block count:	 131130
Free blocks:			  2242277
Free inodes:			  1270981
First block:			  0
Block size:			   4096
Fragment size:			4096
Blocks per group:		 32768
Fragments per group:	  32768
Inodes per group:		 16192
Inode blocks per group:   506
Filesystem created:	   Sat Apr 22 05:01:43 2006
Last mount time:		  Thu May  4 02:04:49 2006
Last write time:		  Thu May  4 02:39:11 2006
Mount count:			  41
Maximum mount count:	  -1
Last checked:			 Sat Apr 22 05:01:43 2006
Check interval:		   0 (<none>)
Reserved blocks uid:	  0 (user root)
Reserved blocks gid:	  0 (group root)
First inode:			  11
Inode size:			   128
Journal inode:			8
Default directory hash:   tea
Directory Hash Seed:	  50a955ed-a98c-42eb-9863-a3a747d538da
Journal backup:		   inode blocks

 

so you know, here's my lilo.conf and fstab files:

lilo.conf

 # File generated by DrakX/drakboot
# WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file

default="multimedia_4GB_2.6.14.7"
boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
keytable=/boot/us.klt
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
prompt
nowarn
timeout=60
message=/boot/message
disk=/dev/sda bios=0x80
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux"
root=/dev/sda1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent"
vga=788
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux-nonfb"
root=/dev/sda1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent"
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="failsafe"
root=/dev/sda1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="failsafe resume=/dev/sda5"
image=/boot/vmlinuz-i586-up-1GB
label="linux-i586-up-1GB"
root=/dev/sda1
initrd=/boot/initrd-i586-up-1GB.img
append="resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent"
vga=788
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-18mdk-i586-up-1GB
label="2612i586up1GB-18"
root=/dev/sda1
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.12-18mdk-i586-up-1GB.img
append="resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent"
vga=788
image=/boot/vmlinuz-i686-up-4GB
label="linux-i686-up-4GB"
root=/dev/sda1
initrd=/boot/initrd-i686-up-4GB.img
append="resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent"
vga=788
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-18mdk-i686-up-4GB
label="2612i686up4G-18"
root=/dev/sda1
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.12-18mdk-i686-up-4GB.img
append="resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent"
vga=788
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-2mdk-i686-up-4GB
label="4GB_2.6.14-2"
root=/dev/sda1
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.14-2mdk-i686-up-4GB.img
append="resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent"
vga=788
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-18mdk
label="2.6.12-18"
root=/dev/sda1
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.12-18mdk.img
append="resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent"
vga=788
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-2mdk
label="2.6.14-2"
root=/dev/sda1
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.14-2mdk.img
append="resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent"
vga=788
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-2mdk-i586-up-1GB
label="i586_2.6.14-2"
root=/dev/sda1
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.14-2mdk-i586-up-1GB.img
append="resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent"
vga=788
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-0.mm.7mdk-i686-up-4GB
label="multimedia_4GB_2.6.14.7"
root=/dev/sda1
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.14-0.mm.7mdk-i686-up-4GB.img
append="resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent"
vga=788
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-0.mm.7mdk
label="multimedia_2.6.14.7"
root=/dev/sda1
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.14-0.mm.7mdk.img
append="resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent"
vga=788

 

fstab:

 # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sdb2 /home/elavoie/Documents_Backup ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sdb3 /home/elavoie/Downloaded_Software ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sdb1 /home/elavoie/Ripped_CDs ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0022,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0022,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda6 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda7 /var ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

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if it means anything, here's my /mnt/sda1/etc/rc.d/init.d/udev file:

 

#! /bin/bash
#
# udev	init script to setup /udev
#
# description: manage user-space device nodes in /udev

. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

. /etc/udev/udev.conf
# strip trailling slash:
udev_root=/dev
udev_root2=${udev_root}.old

UDEVSTART=/sbin/udevstart
HELPERS_PATH=/lib/udev
sysfs_dir=/sys
# default maximum size of the /dev tmpfs
tmpfs_size="10M"

case "$(uname -r)" in
 2.[012345].*)
gprintf "udev requires a 2.6.x kernel, not started.\n"
exit 1
  ;;
esac
# don't use udev if devfs is in use.
if [ -e $udev_root/.devfsd ]; then
gprintf "devfsd used instead of udev!!!\n"
exit 1
fi

# we need to unmount /dev/pts/ and remount it later over the tmpfs
unmount_devpts() {
 if grep -q $1/pts /proc/mounts; then
umount -l $1/pts/
 fi

 if grep -q $1/shm /proc/mounts; then
umount -l $1/shm/
 fi
}

# mount a tmpfs over /dev, if somebody did not already do it
mount_tmpfs() {
 if ! grep -E -q "^[^[:space:]]+ $udev_root tmpfs" /proc/mounts; then
  unmount_devpts $udev_root
  mount -n -o size=$tmpfs_size,mode=0755 -t tmpfs none $udev_root
 fi
 make_extra_nodes
 if ! grep -q $udev_root/pts /proc/mounts; then
  mount -n -t devpts -o mode=620 none $udev_root/pts
 fi
 if ! grep -q $udev_root/shm /proc/mounts; then
  mount -n -t tmpfs  none $udev_root/shm
 fi
}

make_node () {
dev="$1"
type="$2"
major="$3"
minor="$4"

if [ "$type" = c -a ! -c "$dev" -o "$type" = b -a ! -b "$dev" ]; then
rm -f "$dev"
mknod "$dev" "$type" "$major" "$minor"
fi
}

make_extra_nodes () {
# there are a few things that sysfs does not export for us.
# these things are listed in /etc/udev/links.conf
 grep '^[^#]' /etc/udev/links.conf | \
 while read type name arg1; do
   [ "$type" -a "$name" -a ! -e "$udev_root/$name" -a ! -L "/dev/$name" ] ||continue
   case "$type" in
	 L) ln -s $arg1 $udev_root/$name;;
	 D) mkdir -p $udev_root/$name;;
	 M) mknod --mode=600 $udev_root/$name $arg1;;
	 *) gprintf "links.conf: unparseable line (%s %s %s)\n" "$type" "$name" "$arg1";;
   esac
 done
}

# When modifying this script, do not forget that between the time that
# the new /dev has been mounted and udevstart has been run there will be
# no /dev/null. This also means that you cannot use the "&" shell command.

##############################################################################
case "$1" in
 start)
[ "`runlevel`" != "unknown" -a -f /var/lock/subsys/udev ] && exit 0
[[ -d /var/lock/subsys/ ]] && touch /var/lock/subsys/udev 2> /dev/null
fgrep -q '/dev ' /proc/mounts && [[ -e /$udev_root/.started ]] && exit 0
# don't use udev if sysfs is not mounted.
if [ ! -d $sysfs_dir/block ]; then
	echo not starting because /sys is not mounted
	exit 1
fi
if [ ! -d $udev_root ]; then
	mkdir $udev_root
fi

# we'd better handle this in an udev event:
[[ -e /sys/class/firmware/timeout ]] && echo 50 > /sys/class/firmware/timeout

# Creating initial udev device nodes:
mount_tmpfs
touch $udev_root/.started

# udev uses a netlink, kernel.hotplug isn't needed
echo "" > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
udevd -d

# propagate /udev from /sys - we only need this while we do not
# have initramfs and an early user-space with which to do early
# device bring up (aka coldplug)
PKLVL=$(cut -f1 /proc/sys/kernel/printk)
sysctl -n -w kernel.printk=0
$UDEVSTART
$HELPERS_PATH/udev_input_coldplug start
sysctl -n -w kernel.printk=$PKLVL

action "Start %s\n" udev /bin/true
for i in /etc/udev/conf.d/*; do [[ "$i" = ${i%\~} ]] && [[ -x $i ]] && $i; done
pam_console_apply
;;
 stop)
rm -f /var/lock/subsys/udev $udev_root/.started
  exit 0
;;
 force-stop)
killall udevd
[[ ! -d $udev_root2 ]] && mkdir $udev_root2
mount --move $udev_root $udev_root2
unmount_devpts $udev_root2
# unmounting with -l should never fail
action "Stopping %s" udev umount -l $udev_root2 2>/dev/null
sysctl -n -w kernel.hotplug="/sbin/hotplug" >/dev/null 2>&1
rmdir $udev_root2
rm -f /var/lock/subsys/udev
;;
 status)
if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/udev ]; then
	action "%s is running\n" udev /bin/true
	exit 0
fi
action "%s is stopped\n" udev /bin/true
exit 3
;;
 restart)
[[ -f /var/lock/subsys/udev ]] || exit 0
$UDEVSTART
pam_console_apply
;;
 force-reload)
$0 force-stop
$0 start
service syslog restart
;;
 reload)
$0 restart
;;
 *)
  gprintf "Usage: %s {start|stop|status|restart|force-reload|force-stop}\n" "$0"
exit 1
esac

exit 0

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I honestly think it's nothing to do with lilo, fstab or anything like that. I think your filesystem is screwed and I think you should copy the data off, before it's too late.

 

Then, do a clean install, recreating your partition from scratch, maybe use reiserfs instead of ext3. If it's failing to find superblocks, I'm unsure how you can recover this without recreating the filesystem and this will probably be your quickest way.

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I don't understand. Is it still failing to find superblocks in Knoppix?

 sudo dumpe2fs -h /dev/sda1
dumpe2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
Filesystem volume name:   root
Last mounted on:		  <not available>
Filesystem UUID:		  4c3b741d-0858-4998-9b78-34b3e804b99e
Filesystem magic number:  0xEF53
Filesystem revision #:	1 (dynamic)
Filesystem features:	  has_journal filetype sparse_super
Default mount options:	(none)
Filesystem state:		 clean

 

Seems like the drive integrity is fine. Are you saying that the linux kernel or something is corrupted and that's why I should reinstall? Forgive me if I seem stubborn, but I'd hate to revert to a windows-like solution of format and reinstall.

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Ok, here's what I'm currently doing - if this doesn't work then I'll clean install mandriva;

sudo dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb3/sda1
sudo umount /dev/sda1
<run Qtparted and format sda1>
sudo mount -rw /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
sudo dd if=/mnt/sdb3/sda1 of=/dev/sda1
<reboot mandriva and see if anything changed>

 

Anyway, it may not change a darn thing, but at least I'll know. Now to just wait for dd to finish :popcorn:

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Hmm, nope - didn't work. I've installed Kubuntu for the moment just to see if I'm going to take the easy way out with a clean-install with 3.5.2 already included, but so far I'm hating it. Out of curiosity, has anyone made a full distro image with Mandriva 2006 and MDE/KDE 3.5.2 yet? That would be awesome!

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