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Neme · ‎06-13-2005

I put the xenix hd in another machine, boot linux and after the sdisk -s, it gives /dev/hda: 264600 /dev/hdb:4210920 (I'm bootink with a rescue disk now, trying to do something...). With file -s it gives "Dyalog APL version 5. If I try to mount the partition, the error persists. I try to mount with -t sysv, after loading the module, and nothing. I don't know what to do!!!! Thank for any help!!!

Neme · ‎06-10-2005

I dont have a network card on this system. I put one but I dont know how to put it working. I don't have ssh server either. The amount of data is about 2GB so it's harder to backup on floppy. The OS is xenix release 2.3.4. Thank for any help!!!!

Neme · ‎06-10-2005

I need to restore some data in a xenix machine in my linux server. But when I try to mount the partition always fails. I have xenix as a module in my kernel. I load the module and I can't mount the xenix partition. I only need to copy the data that is in the xenix machine. I tryed to mount a dos 3.3 hd but I don't know how to do this in xenix. I try to mount using the sysv filesystem type but the error persists (mount -t sysv /dev/hdc1 /mnt/xxxx). Thank you very much for any help!!!

Neme · ‎05-18-2005

I didn't make new instalations recently. The user use the same script to use the system. Once they log out they close the connection (no one use the server for other purpose but the system).

Neme · ‎05-18-2005

lost+found is always empty and the data isn't corrupted, the files disapear. If we boot with a rescue cd and mount the partition / for instance, the /etc/hosts is there, but the /etc/passwd isn't. Some files are there but lots of them are not anymore! The inittab is not there, so the message no inittab found enter runlevel appears. This problems are causing lots of trouble, because we need to reinstall the linux os sometimes in places that are so far here. In one case, the problem happened in a machine that has been used for more then 2 years with novell os and never have one single problem!

Neme · ‎05-18-2005

The / is not completely lost. Most of the files, mainly at the /etc directory that get lost. Some times the /var isn't lost and the logs do not show nothing about the error. Some times the /var is not there. It is a very silly problem. Maybe the kernel is trying to access the swap area and write data in the wrong partition? I can't guess why the data partition is always ok...

Neme · ‎05-17-2005

The users don't use any special scripts. They only use putty to access the server, run a script to enter the dataflex program. The script is the same on all the instalations, the ones that are ok and the others that some times have the problem... The users don't access the server for a shell, they access only to use the system. When they stop to use the system, the script log them out.

Neme · ‎05-17-2005

the backup runs as root user, but the problem occurs usually at work hour, not at the same time that backup is running..

Neme · ‎05-17-2005

For backup we use the tar utility that runs once in a day with cron (tar zcvf xxxx.tgz ...).

Neme · ‎05-17-2005

We create a user to power off the system. This user automaticaly runs a halt command. We managed the system remotely. We have the same environment here and in other customers that is up more then 80 days... Thanks!

Neme · ‎05-17-2005

I forgot to thank you very much for the help!!!

Neme · ‎05-17-2005

The dataflex utility runs under a normal user that have write access only on his home directory. The errors ocurred at diferent times and days. The most interesting thing is that we have the same environment in lots of places, with exactly the same configuration and with no errors!! We thought that maybe the filesystem type, so we try reiser, ext2, ext3 and we did not resolve the problem. Why the data partition does not get compromised? We created a partition for the dataflex utility and the problem continued. The / partition get lost but the /data and /dataflex partition was there!

Neme · ‎05-17-2005

I have lots of customers (in different cities) that have linux installed (fedora core 3 , mandrake 10, 10.1, 10.2) and working. The machines stopped to work with the same error. When I try to reinitialize the system, the following message appears: No inittab found Enter your runlevel And when I try to boot with runlevel 3, 0, 5, it didn't work. I boot the machine with the rescue option and fortunately my data partition (that I've created in another partition) was there. Only the root partition was lost. The /etc directory only have some files. I mount the / partition and the /data partition. Only the / partition was compromised. The /data partion was ok. Then I installed again withot formating the data partition, restore the /etc from my backup and it goes fine. But I don't know what's going on. Why suddenly the machines lost the inittab and / partiton? I look at the messages and nothing related to the problem appears. Once I try to repeat the problem with one machine at my office and I find the same error trying to use cups lots of times in a recursive shell, but it was only 1 time. The hardware is different, i.e., one machine has scsi, another ide or sata, dell machines, ibm machines, out of brand machines, kernel 2.4 or 2.6. They run only dataflex , and some use only a server in a lan environment (The users only access the server via putty on windows machines or ssh on linux machines), they don't have internet access. The users don't have access to the server and the disk space is ok.(only 20-30% of the disk is used) so probably virus is not the problem... In one customer, there is also a netware server using the same power supply and the server never hungs (so we discard power problems).

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