| cannot access web page after fsck | SeeHeng Lee | 9/14/12 5:33 PM | Hi, I have a problem with my flashed Alt-F DNS33 unit. I recently had to remove power plug without a propse. shutdown. Since then, whenever I power up the DNS323, the status page show "Checking...x%". I could access telnet at this stage. After I left it running till near completion, I cannot access the webpage or telnet anymore. I tried booting the DNS323 without the HardDisk, and there was no problem. Similarly, if I telnet into the DNS32 during the initial stage, I could kill the fsck process, and sometimes mounted the disk as RO. I also read the wiki, and tried some recovery steps you mentioned in other threads in this forum, all without success. Do you have any more ideas? |
| Re: cannot access web page after fsck | João Cardoso | 9/15/12 6:03 PM |
Why don't you wait until it finishes?
This issue returned?! Only after the unclean shutdown, or before that also?
After an unclean shutdown a 'fsck' has to be performed. Alt-F always performs a fsck at boot or disk insertion/detection; if the filesystems in the disk are clean, the fsck only takes a couple of seconds; if they are dirty, 'fsck' can take hours to complete; if there is some problem that fsck does not dare to automatically fix, the filesystems are mounted RO and manual intervention is needed. Consult System->Utilities->Logs, System Log, and search for fsk and "manual intervention". If it appears in the logs, you have to ssh/telnet the box and perform a manual fsck, not supplying a '-p' option, and, optionally supplying a '-y' option, such as 'fsck -fy /dev/<your device here, such as sda2>' Alt-F does not perform a fsck this way automatically as there is the possibility of data loss, that's why filesystems are mounted RO, so you might do a backup before performing the "force, yes (-fy)" fsck.
This has nothing to do with recovery. |
| Re: cannot access web page after fsck | SeeHeng Lee | 10/20/12 4:48 AM |
The process "cannot" finish. If I leave it running, eventually the web page becomes not responsive at all. I cannot do anything after that.
After waiting for fsck to complete for a long time. |
| Re: cannot access web page after fsck | João Cardoso | 10/22/12 12:34 PM |
If 'fsck' is taking so long, perhaps you don't have enough virtual memory (swap). How was your disks partitioned? What does appears as "Swap" the Status page? |
| Re: cannot access web page after fsck | SeeHeng Lee | 10/24/12 3:26 AM |
Sorry I have already reformatted so I do not have that number anymore. |