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

[Security - Ed Wiget <security@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

my suggestion would be to either install another linux hard drive and
boot from it, then mount the other hard drive and change the permissions
or to use any of the micro linux (floppy) or distros (bootable cd) to
accomplish the same.

I don't use suse on a regular basis past just installing and playing
with an older version, but I do use redhat and gentoo every day for 5+
years.  Speaking from RH experience, their installation disk has a way
to boot for repair and chroot the hard drive.  You can then mount it
writable and make the repairs.  I would assume almost all distro's have
a similar feature.

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 04:48, Miguel Albuquerque wrote:
> 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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