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HELP!--Won't boot! What's UTMP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leston Buell)
Fri Nov 27 02:08:50 1998
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 23:30:23 -0800
From: Leston Buell <leston@csi.com>
Reply-To: bulbul@ucla.edu
To: redhat-list <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
Hi. Just yesterday i installed RedHat 5.2 on a 486 to teach Linux to a
friend. I wasn't having any problems with it. I had successfully booted
several times. Then, while trying to transfer a file onto the machine
from a DOS floppy, i encountered an input/output error, which seemed to
be corrected when i used a different floppy. Then i kept getting these
warning messages:
EXT2-fs warning (device 03:01): ext2_free_inode:
bit already cleared for inode 1932
while opening UTMP file: Not a directory.
(I have no idea if the input/output error with the floppy had anything
to do with this catastrophe.)
Then, all of a sudden, i couldn't log on in any new virtual consoles,
and such basic commands as shutdown were no longer available. I shut the
machine down, and tried rebooting, it kept displaying the above message
over and over again, and also:
INIT cannot execute /etc/rc.d/rc
So, in despair, i made a rescue disk, and successfully ran ext2fsck
(e2fsck?) on hda1. (Yeah!) It corrected lots of things i didn't
understand (since i don't know what an inode is). When i tried rebooting
some of the error messages were now absent, but i still get, over and
over again:
While opening UTMP file: No such file or directory.
Is there anything i can do? I'm not really experienced with this; this
is the first time i've used a rescue disk.
Any help would be appreciated.
--
Leston Buell
bulbul@ucla.edu
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