After my Dell R210-II server with Debian Squeeze had been running for 4 months without any problems, today I suddenly could not get a shell prompt after a successful login using SSH. Also using the virtual console from iDRAC6 I could not see any prompt.
But all other services like httpd, mysqld and so on were still running OK.
Because I have knowledge to administer the server, but do not have qualifications to debug such a problem any other way, I decided to reboot the server. Also because I did not change any configuration options on the server since weeks
But now the server (single OS install) won’t start anymore… Here is an explanation what happens:
System starts
On PXE menu I select (local) and press enter
Then there is a message:
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Booting from local disk...
GRUB loading.
Welcome to GRUB!
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After that I can select which OS I want to load and I select
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Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64
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But then the system reports the following:
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[0.527313] pci 0000:02:03.0: BAR 6: address space collision of device [0xffff0000-0xffffffff]
[0.707719] i8042.c: No controller found.
Loading, please wait...
/init: /scripts/init-top/ORDER: line 1: /scripts/init-top/all_generic_ide: Permission denied
/init: /scripts/init-top/ORDER: line 3: /scripts/init-top/blacklist: Permission denied
/init: /scripts/init-top/ORDER: line 5: /scripts/init-top/keymap: Permission denied
/init: /scripts/init-top/ORDER: line 7: /scripts/init-top/udev: Permission denied
/init: /scripts/local-top/ORDER: line 1: /scripts/local-top/mdadm: Permission denied
error sending message: Connection refused
udevadm[79]: error sending message: Connection refused
Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
- Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
- Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
- Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
- Missing modules (cat proc/modules; ls /dev)
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/800d8e8b-daae-4b9e-811f-9057565aa7f3 does not excist.
Dropping to shell!
BusyBox v1.71.1 (Debian 1:1.17.1-8 built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built in commands.
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control is turned off (initramfs)
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It seems like the same problem was as discussed at
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=73085 but I cannot boot any linux. So working from command prompt (shell) is not an option without physically going to the datacenter
Is there anybody who can help?
Thanx in advance,
Alvin