Topic: Server Crash: switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory

[LANMonkey]

I woke up this morning to find that my SME server had crashed.  The monitor login was unresponsive.  I did a hard reboot and here are some of the messages that I managed to write down:

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Recovery required on read only file system
Write access will be enabled during recovery

ide: failed opcode was unknown
hda: drive not ready for command

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end request I/o error dev hda sector 440693
(many lines like this with varying sectors, 440637, 440645, 440653, 440661, 440669, 440677, 440693)
JBD: Failed to read block at offset 26819
JBD: recovery failed
EXT3-fs: error loading journal.
mount: error mounting /dev/rot on /sysroot as ext3: Invalid argument
Setting up other filesystems.
Setting up new root fs
setuproot:  moving /dev failed: no such file or directory
no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults
setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
Switching to new root and running init.
unmounting old /dev
unmounting old /proc
unmounting old /sys
switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
Kernel panic - not syncing:  Attempted to kill init!
I am shut down.  What is going on?

[stephdl]

You are experiencing a crash disk with bad sectors so the system is not able to start. As i can see yo have only one hard disk, i hope that i make a mistake but there is no mention to hdb.
You can try to start your system with a rescue-cd but in the meanwhile it is time to look about backups.

http://wiki.contribs.org/Recovering_SME_Server_with_lvm_drives

end request I/o error dev hda sector 440693
(many lines like this with varying sectors, 440637, 440645, 440653, 440661, 440669, 440677, 440693)
JBD: Failed to read block at offset 26819

[LANMonkey]

Yes, a re-installation is underway now.  Thanks for posting.

[stephdl]

Yes, a re-installation is underway now.  Thanks for posting.

not on the same disks i hope... you have to change your disk .....you shouldn't use them again otherwise you risk to be in the same situation another day....
sorry for inconvenients

[LANMonkey]

not on the same disks i hope... you have to change your disk .....you shouldn't use them again otherwise you risk to be in the same situation another day....
sorry for inconvenients

Yes, of course.  It is another drive.  Thanks for bringing that up.