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

[bleonhardt@xxxxxxxxxxx]

hi,

another idea .. use / start knoppix .. then try to mount your system's 
hdds .. 

-alex

Miguel Albuquerque <mfoacs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb am 28.07.2004 11:46:16:

> On Wednesday 28 July 2004 11:20, José Luis Ledesma wrote:
> > First of all... you shouldn't give root permissions to programmers!
> >
> > I'm not a guru, but:
> >
> > How are you trying to mount the filesystem?
> 
> i've tried mount -o remount,rw /
> 
> > is a hardware raid or a software one?
> > ide or scsi drives?
> 
> Two IDE, software RAID
> 
> >
> > I supose you have solved the hardware problems, right?
> >
> > as much info you give, more help you will receive.
> >
> >
> > José Luis Ledesma
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> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Miguel Albuquerque [mailto:mfoacs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: miércoles, 28 de julio de 2004 10:49
> > To: suse-security@xxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [suse-security] fs corrupted - permissions altered
> >
> >
> > 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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