My server unable to boot up and got the the message "could not find filesystem /dev/root" after adding 1Tb of storage space from Storage Area Network (SAN) to the root partition. how to restore my backup folder or how to restore the server to it original state.
View 1 Repliesi used opensuse 11.1 ...there is option for root user to create password for root...but for ubuntu i did not find anything like that...so how can i create root password....or how can i use root
View 1 Replies View RelatedSay I need to do: find / -name somefile.txt
And say root partition / is mounted on /dev/sda5; however, let's say I also have 250GB partitions (/dev/sda6, /dev/sda7) mounted in /media - AND another location that I cannot currently remember. Say, also, that I know the file I'm looking for is on /dev/sda5.
Obviously, the above command will also descend in /media and that other directory which represent the big partitions, wasting time in looking for the file in the wrong place.
Is there a way to instruct find (or other command) to search only / on /dev/sda5, and NOT to descend to directories if they are on different partitions ?
For example I have "/some/dir" which contains user's files and directories. I want to check if there are any files or directories of root. I guess I should use "find" command but what's the full command to find it out?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI need a way to find all the files not owned by root:root on the commandline. How can this be done?
View 2 Replies View RelatedBeing a system administrator i came across a statement as "Excluding temporary directories /tmp and /var/tmp, no root owned files should be in world writable directories"While the above statement may look straight forward but how would i check if there are any such directories in the distribution?
View 14 Replies View RelatedFirst time trying anything like this. I'm running a Abit NF7 with a silicon image 3112 that's support was broken in 2.6.35. I get a kernel panic when VFS can't find the root partition, I can't remember the exact line (can't log it, root isn't mounted yet) but it says something like sata1: link down (sstatus 0 scontrol 0). I think there might be a more telling error message before, but it flies by too fast to see or capture with my camera video recorder.
There's a patch that reverts back to when there was a delay in /drivers/ata/libata-sff.c in the function ata_sff_tf_load, by calling ata_wait_idle(ap) which fixes the issue for some people but not my system. I don't know anything about what I'm doing, but I thought I'd go through and add printk's in each function in sata_sil and see how far the device was initialized. I did this but they all happen early in the boot that flies by. Is there any way to add a pause like the "more" command? [URL]
I am looking for Windows Search equivalent looking for file name patterns (not file contents but file names)....
I am aware of "globbing" and wildcard recursive search functionality in ls but I am still not capable of finding files under directories.
for example: I want to find all files starting with a string lsnr* under root directory / and any sub-directories.....
ie I want to look for files like lsnr*.* anywhere under / and any sub-directories under / such as /dir1/dir2/dir4 and dir1/other/dir/someotherdir/sub-dir etc.
so if I have /dir1/lsnrcontrol and also have /dir1/dir/2/dir3/lsnr-tinit.dat then I want to list the files names etc.
how to do this using ls -R and wildcards.
Is there a non-root shell command that can tell me if a user's account is disabled or not? note that there is a fine distinction between LOCKING and DISABLED:
LOCKING is where you prepend ! or * or !! to the password field of the /etc/passwd file. On Linux systems that shadow the passwords, this marker flag may be placed in /etc/shadow instead of /etc/passwd. Password locking can be done (at a shell prompt) via password -l username (as root) to lock the account of username, and the use of the option -u will unlock it.
DISABLING an account is done by setting the expiration time of the user account to some point in the past. This can be done with chage -E 0 username, which sets the expiration date to 0 days after the Unix epoch. Setting it to -1 will disable the use of the expiration date.
The effect of locking to to prevent the login process from using a supplied password to hash correctly against the saved hash (by virtue of the fact that the pre-pended marker character(s) are not valid output character(s) for the hash, thus no possible input can ever be used to generate a hash that would match it). The effect of disabling is to prevent any process from using an account because the expiration date of the account has already passed.For my situation, the use of locking is not sufficient because a user might still be able to login, e.g. using ssh authentication tokens, and processes under that user can still spawn other processes. Thus, we have accounts that are enabled or disabled, not just locked. We already know how to disable and enable the account - it requires root access and the use of chage, as shown above.To repeat my question: is there a shell command which can be run without root privileges which can output the status of this account expiration info for a given user? this is intended for use on a Red Hat Enterprise 5.4 system.The output is being returned to a java process which can then parse the output as needed, or make use of the return code.
When adding snbpasswd it returns "failed to find entry for user root",who knows why?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI just compiled my first own kernel (I'm using Arch Linux), following the tutorial on the german site. Now I tried to boot it, I ended up failing with this message: Code: Waiting 10 seconds for device /dev/sda1 ... Root device '/dev/sda1' doesn't exist, Attempting to create it. ERROR: Unable to determine major/minor number of root device '/dev/sda1' Here is the important part of my menu.lst:
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I simply copy&pasted the Arch-entry, i.e. I also had the disk by uuid there. The failure message was the same, just the root device name was the different name Also, at first I did not have the initrd line in my menu.lst (as written in my tutorial that I may not need it). In this case I had this error message:
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I am running Ubuntu 10.04 x64 with the following specs:
Kernel 2.6.32-25-generic
Inspiron 1420
Intel Core 2 Duo T550
4 GB RAM
Intel X3100 / 965 GMA Video Card
I've already enabled apport however it isn't able to capture any causes for the random freeze of my system. I've encountered a number of freezes for no apparent reason and the sad part is Ctrl + Alt + Backspace also does not work (even though I've already enabled it)
how to find the root password when i have terminal with root access ie is there any way find out the root or any other users password when we have terminal with root as logged in. I just want to the present password of root or any user on that system and not want to change the password so is there any way using any scripts or software we can find out the present password.
View 1 Replies View Relatedwell i was messing with the Gparted live disk and i deleted a small partition of about 6 megs (yes megs). trying to be efficient doing some cleanup of course. but when i rebooted my Fedora 10 i get the black screen saying," could not find the file system. /dev/root". ok, i am useing the fedora 10 live cd now. can i copy that file to my hard drive from the cd? or do i need to reinstall Fedora?
View 1 Replies View Relatedout in finding root device of fedora 14. I've windows XP and fedora 14 installed on. this is the output for blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="962C8EA82C8E834B" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda5: UUID="262C06BF2C068A4F" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda6: UUID="cbcf539a-dee1-4f2f-b68c-ce315ae76e0f" TYPE="ext4"
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I have successful tar an existing CentOS 5.2 partition from Fefora10. The idea is to move a working CentOS 5.2 reside in an internal hard drive to a portable hard drive. I know how to edit a stencil in menu.lst to boot the clone CentOS5.2. During boot, I encountered
Red Hat nash version 5.1.19.6
mount: could not find filesystem /dev/root
setuproot: moving /dev failed No such file or directory
setuproot: mounting /proc: No such file or directory
setuproot: mounting /sys: No such file or directory
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I have a raid array using mdadm made up of two drives. The drives have two parts, the first for boot information and the 2nd for LVM. Everything but /boot is under LVM management. Originly the two drives were hooked up to a sata controller in a computer with no on-board sata. However I was not able to get the computer to boot to a sata drive off of that controller. So there was an IDE drive with the MBR that loaded grub.
Now the computer in that setup seems to have died. So the drives were moved to another computer with an on-board sata controller and now the bootup works as far as getting to the grub menu. However after the grub menu the error message "Cannot find root device"
I found the boot info script [URL].. note at the time that was run the computer was running with one drive that has a full Debian install with the raid drive in question mounted and chrooted into. The script was ran from the chroot envirment.[URL]..
i made a live usb stick with a original live iso image of f10 following carefully instructions of fedora support comunity once i finished i had tested it and i had the same problem (warning can not find root filesystem create symlink /dev/root and then exit this shell to continue the boot sequence, bash: no job control in this shell) of the following person:
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've installed Fedora 15 with Fedora 14 already installed in other partitions, but now I can't boot Fedora 14 as it prompts "no root device found", these are both grub.confQuote:
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=120
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I am installing 9.10 and when it gets to the preparing partition part, there is no partition showing up? and i can't add one either?
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View 5 Replies View RelatedNew install, linux Fedora 15 Alpha. I am trying to switch over to Fedaora, but the bleeping thing keeps saying device/error/cant find the root.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm am very new at debian. I have tried to use the apt install to install java-package an fake root after it says cannot find java-package also fake root doesn't work?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI posted this first to thread 'Boot problem - "Gave up waiting for root device.", (initramfs)' then realized that I should start a new thread because the problem is not the same. On boot the splash goes black and nothing happens, On a recovery boot it drops into shell BusyBox and messages indicate that the root partition cannot be found. After booting from CD Gparted GUI partition information shows no label or ssid for the root partition sda2. The data for the root partition appears to be there. how to fix this? My /home, swap, and / are on separate partitions formatted ext3. I have a recent backup only for my data. I would like to avoid having to rebuild my system from scratch.
View 9 Replies View Related[URL]. I don't have permission to add the first thing and I cant find my root user on the list. I am an administrator.
View 3 Replies View RelatedInstalling ajaxplorer on ubuntu 10.0.4. I am new to linux. Cannot find the html root directory where installation files to be put. How to create a symbolic link from it's home (root where ajaxplorer files unzipped) to a place where the web front-end is visible and available to the HTTP server.
View 1 Replies View RelatedAn old machine in our office, running Ubuntu 6.06 all of a sudden will not boot up. I get the following info during boot:
Uncompressing Linux... Ok Booting the kernel
mount: Mounting /root/sda1 /root failed: No such device
mount: Mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed: No such file or directory
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I haven't changed anything on the system as far as I'm aware, and I ran some HD diagnostics and everything seems fine. however when I try to mount the drive with the following command:
sudo mount -t ext3 -o rw /dev/hda1 /mnt
I get the following error:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad
superblock on /dev/sda1, missing code
page or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in
syslog - try dmesg | tail or so
I ran fdisk -l and it says the partition type is Linux. The output after running dmesg | tail :
[12207.483801] init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (101)
[12207.483809] EXT2-fs: corrupt root inode, run e2fsck
[12260.427078] init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (101)
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Update: After running e2fsck -p /dev/sda1, I get the following info:
/dev/sda1: clean, 142449 / 9584640 files, 5402711 / 19161520 blocks
I created a chroot jail in /SECURITY/Jail. But when I used the command 'sudo chroot /SECURITY/Jail' to enter the fake root, I got an error message likegroups: cannot find name for group ID 105groups: cannot find name for group ID 119.
View 1 Replies View Relatedi just installed linux mandriva 2009. i set password for root and created a user account. when i try to login as root, after logging out as user, it does not allow me and gives the error "root logins are not allowed". even it does not show the root account. if i try to go to root from konsole terminal using su root, it allows to enter as a root but when i try to start the GUI with startx it gives error.not sure what to do and why i can't see my account in GUI mode
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