[linux-audio-user] Ardour Crash + can't boot

[R Parker]

Jan,

Do you ignore the warning that running fsck on a
mounted partition can cause serious damage? I used to
ignore it and never had a problem but as my collection
of valuable material grows I become more paranoid. I
imagine Aaron will see that message.

ron

--- Jan Depner <eviltwin69 at cableone.net> wrote:
> Aaron,
> 
> 	Sounds strange.  If you are using LILO to boot
> press <Ctrl>-x at the
> splash screen and then enter "linux single" at the
> boot: prompt to boot
> into single user mode.  If you are using GRUB you
> can press "e" when the
> GRUB splash screen comes up.  Highlight your normal
> boot line with the
> arrow keys, press "e" again, add " single" to the
> end of the boot line,
> press Enter, press "b".  This will boot you into
> single user mode.  At
> that point you can look around your system and see
> if anything is
> amiss.  Many times just getting it to boot into
> single user mode and
> then doing a clean reboot will clear up any problems
> you have.  If
> you're getting a message about having to manually
> fix a disk partition
> you can manually fsck a disk partition by entering
> "fsck
> /dev/hdWHATEVER".  Usually I just agree to let it
> fix whatever is wrong
> at that point since anything more involved is
> "magic".  Good luck.
> 
> 
> Jan
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 04:57, Aaron Trumm wrote:
> > reposting this cuz I ALWAYS forget to make the
> messages plain text from my
> > windows machine:
> > 
> > Hello all - this has actually become a general
> problem, but I think it was
> > caused by Ardour, so I'm cross posting on linux
> audio and the ardour lists
> > 
> > I'm running Red Hat and the latest ardour from
> Planet CCRMA which I think is
> > 0.9beta11.2-1 - I was recording a take, and upon
> pushing stop Ardour
> > crashed - a similar has happened many times with
> this version, actually
> > pretty much every time - after the take, it gives
> me a memory error, I click
> > ok, ardour exits, I go back, but it kept the take.
> > 
> > but this time, it crashed without that, i started
> ardour again, the take
> > WASN'T there, and then ardour either froze or
> crashed I can't remember which
> > cuz I was in session so it was hectic, and I
> needed to reboot manually and
> > so I did, and now, though, it won't boot - it
> hangs and says "kernel panic.
> > no init found.  try passing the init= option"
> > 
> > I can provide more details if needed - I think the
> kernel is also the latest
> > planet kernel - but from what I've been able to
> find I don't think it
> > matters.
> > 
> > so I grabbed my emergency boot disk, or what I
> think is my emergency boot
> > disk, because I have never used it, and reset, and
> I get what I'm sure is a
> > familiar prompt to most, the 'ol
> > 
> > boot:
> > 
> > and it's telling me to hit return or wait ten
> seconds to boot from /dev/hda2
> > (hmmm - is that where the boot loader really is on
> my system?  not sure)  -
> > and that I can "type "linux <params>", and press
> <return> if I want to
> > override the defaults
> > 
> > now I know nothing about these params and I'm more
> familiar with a dos boot
> > disk where i shove that thing in and reboot and
> I'm looking at a dos prompt
> > even if my harddrive is totally wanked.
> > 
> > what I've read has told me to boot up and edit
> some files - fstab maybe?
> > but uh - *blush*  - how can I get to a danged
> prompt?
> > 
> > 
> > for the ardour list:  does this sound familiar, is
> this version of ardour
> > known to do this kind of thing?
> > 
> 
> 



	
		
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