After a prolonged power outage at the office, my web server went down. Unfortunately I wasn't there to shut things down, and I'm getting the dreaded "Could not open proc/partitions: No such file or directory". And it's true, proc/partitions doesn't exist.

When I try to run fsck, I get the same error as above, so it won't do anything. I've booted on the distro CD into "rescue mode" and ran e2fsck, checking each partition (/dev/hda1,2). It appears that everything is OK, but when I reboot, it's the same deal.

Is there a way I can re-create proc/partitions? When I boot on CD, I see proc/partitions, and I can cat it to screen, and it has seemingly good data in it. When I boot on the hard disk and go into single user mode (after the error message, I enter the root password to go into maintenance mode), no partition is mounted (I don't think) and the file proc/partitions doesn't exist. Can I copy the one I see when booted from the CD?

I have searched/Googled this problem, and I've seen many of the same responses to similar problems, but I have not seen one solution. That is very weird to me. I am not a Linux guru, so if you choose to respond, please do not be cryptic, please be as verbose as you possibly can (my brain just doesn't work like it used to

Thanks very much,

Jack

http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&q=...ns&btnG=Search

First hit tells it may be caused by wrong clock. BTW, why are you running a dead distro? RH series support was dropped four years ago.

If RH9 is dead, then yes, I'm running a dead distro. I will check into the clock.

Not sure what a "wrong" clock is, I'm assuming time or date off? Well, the clock is "right". It's within a couple minutes of my other machines...

You didn't write if you sorted this out by mounting /proc as suggested in that other thread?

I'm not sure what "that other thread" is, I haven't read anything thus far about mounting /proc. I have been going thru the google search link above and haven't found a solution yet.

But, if I try to mount /proc, I get an error, "segmentation fault"

Thanks

PS I might mention that I've tried mounting /proc in single user mode, read only, and I still get the segmentation fault error.