[suse-security] Antwort: [suse-security] fs corrupted - permissions altered

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Hi Miguel,

try following ...

... plug in a standard IDE hdd with LINUX on board .. start it .. mount 
the scsi hdd ( as root ;-) ) .. and change the permissions back again ... 
I'd give it a try .. 

-Alex

"Miguel Albuquerque" <mfoacs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb am 28.07.2004 
10:48:32:

> Hi,
> 
> My nightmare : one of our programmers accidently has "chown (as root) * 
-R".
> Hardware problems shuted down the box during the night and this morning 
the
> machine won't boot. I had tried several things :
> 
> 1. normal reboot does an normal fs repair, then it hangs on "unable to 
mount
> /proc - only root can do that". The next reboot will eventually pass 
this
> phase but will stop on "init : runlevel 6 respawn too fast disabling for 
5
> minztes" and again and again.
> 
> 2. boot in rescue mode - can't mount file system, anywhere (i figured 
now
> that  HD devices are in RAID mode).
> 
> What should i do. I am not that experienced with RAID and although i can
> handle an rescue environement this situation is above my skill i fear.
> 
> Help will be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Miguel
> 
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