[WBEL-users] x not starting

Terry Henderson trryhend at gmail.com
Tue Jul 18 15:55:59 CDT 2006


On 7/18/06, Multisys, Jim Keable <jimkeable at multisys.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Terry,
>
> Sorry for my typing mistakes, I'm running KDE, was using df -h.
>
> The is running KDE as an easier interface for the end-user/admin.
>
> I have run fcsk and now my drive appears to be wiped:-
>
> Bad magic number in super-block while trying to re-open
> e2fsck:- io manger magic bad.
>
> Any ideas, I think I'm screwed, was hoping to get the partition working and
> off-load the data if that is possible.
>
> Was going to install an ide disk, load whitebox, then try adding the SCSI
> drive to it, what do you think?
>

That would be fine. No reason not to have a SCSI drive.
Did fsck report any specific problems?


> Thanks
>
> Jim
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Terry Henderson" <trryhend at gmail.com>
> To: "whitebox-users" <whitebox-users at beau.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 6:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] x not starting
>
>
> > What happens when fsck is run?
> >
> > On 7/17/06, Multisys, Jim Keable <jimkeable at multisys.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> A customer filled the hard disk on one of our whitebox 3 respin 2
> >> servers.
> >>
> >> Although I deleted several gb's of data however the dr -h still reports
> >> 100%
> >> full.
> >
> > You mean "df -h" ?
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Also KBE no longer loads, it keeps restarting over and over from the text
> >> login prompt, this started after the above.
> >
> > You mean  kde ?
> >
> >    What kind of server is it?  Why does it have X on it?
> > I think you need to tell us a little more about this system, give us a
> > few more details about it. What filesystem is it? etc.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> I would rather not have to re-load the server, can any one give me any
> >> pointers in re-covering from this.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Jim
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