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

[Jan Depner]

If you boot in single user mode you should only get that if you're
trying to fsck the root partition.  AFAIK you kinda have to ignore it in
that case.  I don't know what recourse you have in the case of a hosed
root partition.  I've never had a problem with fsck'ing the root
partition though (that covers about 16 years of UNIX sysadmin (and 11 of
Linux)).  Of course, it could blow up on me the next time I have to do
it ;-)  Man, you're up early today Ron.

Jan


On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 05:22, R Parker wrote:
> 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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