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suse dead after update

hi there,
i decided to do couple of updates recently and after reboot ended up with following msg:

Code:

loading ext3

resume device /dev/mapper/nvidia_bdbeadct_part2 not found (ignoring)

waiting for device /dev/mapper/nvidia_bdbeadct_part2 to appear....

not found ... exiting to /bin/sh 

_

prompt sign is blinking but U cant enter any command
i've been looking for some answer and it seems like its problem with partitions nameing.
how can i fix it if i cant login into any part?

system is 64bit but cant get U much info about update i've done except i was updating only couple of programs (after last experience with kernel update, nvidia drivers, and compiz i was avoiding updating any of these that could give me troubles again)
also i give couple of kernel options at boot that i've found in othere posts like:
irqpoll
pci=nomsi
but none of it made any changes...

also one of the first error msg i've noticed a msg (cant remember excacly where i've seen it):

e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/mapper/nvidia_ggccecaa_part7
sata1: sata linkup 1.5gbps (sstatus 113 scontrol 300)
gc timeout (cmd 0xec)
failed to identify

can someone explain me pls what to do now ?

what you probably have done during your update was installing a driver for your nvidia card which registered itself but did not install correctly. this makes the x server fail to init correctly. try downloading a new driver from www.nvidia.com. it will be a file with the extension .run to install it you must be in cli mode and have the x server stopped. type the following as root: "sh NvidiaDriverName.rum". the installation wizard will show up, just follow the instructions and try again

i dont really think thats the case,
i have touched neither kernel nor x.org nor nvidia driver itself.
it doesnt prompt about nvidia card, its about nvidia sata hdd controlers so doesnt seems like graphic card problem.

anyway thanks for a try

havnt had too much time recently to work on it,
but still cant make it work...

help needed badly...

The e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/mapper/nvidia_ggccecaa_part7 line means format partition 7. The next lines may indicate a hardware or a kernel problem. Can you boot windows on your system?

What all did you update?

My system blew up with something similar after attempting the last kernel update. Running the "repair" tool DID find my partitions :-) but it "fixed" them by turning them all into swap :-(

hi there,
thx for reply,
i can boot to windows no problem, even can browse ext3 via totalcommander plugins so im sure partition table is fine.

as said in first post can really remember which packets were updated but for sure no kernel updates were made, only thing that bothers me was some initrd(??) thing ive seen somewhere over the web. (propably that package was updated, if its possible to update it without kernel update...)

hi guys,
its been a week now since my pc is dead...
still cant find any clue to fix it...
there must be some kind of way of dealing with it.
i really dont fancy reinstalling it all...

help

Can you check the contents of /var/log/YaST2/y2logRPM and tell us what packages caused the problem?

hi,
with plesure :)
(sorry but im not v.best with linux and need a bit of advice from time to time ;) )

Code:

2007-03-30 19:57:39 liferea-mozilla-1.2.10b-1.guru.suse102.x86_64.rpm install failed

rpm output:

error: Failed dependencies:

        liferea = 1.2.10b-1.guru.suse102 is needed by liferea-mozilla-1.2.10b-1.guru.suse102.x86_64

        liferea-mozilla = 1.2.8-1.guru.suse102 is needed by (installed) liferea-1.2.8-1.guru.suse102.x86_64



2007-03-30 19:57:42 liferea-mozilla-1.2.10b-1.guru.suse102.x86_64.rpm installed ok

2007-03-30 19:57:50 qtcurve-gtk2-0.48.3-2.guru.suse102.x86_64.rpm install failed

rpm output:

error: Failed dependencies:

        qtcurve-kde = 0.48.2-2.guru.suse102 is needed by qtcurve-gtk2-0.48.3-2.guru.suse102.x86_64



2007-03-30 19:57:52 qtcurve-gtk2-0.48.3-2.guru.suse102.x86_64.rpm installed ok

2007-03-30 19:58:04 release-notes-10.2.19-1.1.noarch.patch.rpm installed ok

2007-03-30 19:58:23 mono-core-1.1.18.1-12.2.x86_64.rpm install failed

rpm output:

error: Failed dependencies:

        mono-core = 1.1.18.1-12 is needed by (installed) mono-data-1.1.18.1-12.x86_64

        mono-core = 1.1.18.1-12 is needed by (installed) mono-web-1.1.18.1-12.x86_64

        mono-core = 1.1.18.1-12 is needed by (installed) mono-data-sqlite-1.1.18.1-12.x86_64



2007-03-30 19:58:29 mono-core-1.1.18.1-12.2.x86_64.rpm installed ok

2007-03-30 19:59:07 timezone-2.5-34.1.x86_64.rpm installed ok

2007-03-30 20:06:50 OpenOffice_org-2.0.4-38.3.i586.rpm install failed

rpm output:

error: Failed dependencies:

        OpenOffice_org = 2.0.4-38 is needed by (installed) OpenOffice_org-kde-2.0.4-38.i586

        OpenOffice_org = 2.0.4-38 is needed by (installed) OpenOffice_org-gnome-2.0.4-38.i586



2007-03-30 20:08:54 OpenOffice_org-2.0.4-38.3.i586.rpm installed ok

2007-03-30 20:10:14 evolution-2.8.2-5.x86_64.rpm installed ok

2007-03-30 20:10:58 syslog-ng-1.6.11-23.x86_64.patch.rpm installed ok

Additional rpm output:

Updating etc/sysconfig/syslog...

Updating etc/sysconfig/syslog...

Updating etc/sysconfig/syslog...



2007-03-30 20:11:25 gpg-1.4.5-24.4.x86_64.rpm installed ok

2007-03-30 20:12:06 NetworkManager-0.6.4-51.x86_64.rpm install failed

rpm output:

error: Failed dependencies:

        NetworkManager = 0.6.4-49 is needed by (installed) NetworkManager-gnome-0.6.4-49.x86_64



2007-03-30 20:12:11 NetworkManager-0.6.4-51.x86_64.rpm installed ok

2007-03-30 20:12:18 file-4.17-25.x86_64.rpm installed ok

2007-03-30 20:13:46 libkexiv2-0.1.1-0.pm.0.x86_64.rpm installed ok

Additional rpm output:

warning: /var/adm/mount/AP_0x0000005f/x86_64/libkexiv2-0.1.1-0.pm.0.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 3ab2ce5e



2007-03-30 20:40:47 kipi-plugins-0.1.3-100.pm.2.x86_64.rpm installed ok

Additional rpm output:

warning: /var/adm/mount/AP_0x0000005f/x86_64/kipi-plugins-0.1.3-100.pm.2.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 3ab2ce5e



2007-03-30 20:42:42 liferea-1.2.10b-1.guru.suse102.x86_64.rpm installed ok

2007-03-30 20:42:51 mono-data-1.1.18.1-12.2.x86_64.rpm install failed

rpm output:

error: Failed dependencies:

        mono-data = 1.1.18.1-12 is needed by (installed) mono-data-sqlite-1.1.18.1-12.x86_64



2007-03-30 20:42:52 mono-data-1.1.18.1-12.2.x86_64.rpm installed ok

2007-03-30 20:42:59 OpenOffice_org-gnome-2.0.4-38.3.i586.rpm installed ok

2007-03-30 20:43:17 OpenOffice_org-kde-2.0.4-38.3.i586.rpm installed ok

2007-03-30 20:43:28 NetworkManager-gnome-0.6.4-51.x86_64.rpm installed ok

2007-03-30 20:53:03 digikam-0.9.1-0.pm.1.x86_64.rpm installed ok

Additional rpm output:

warning: /var/adm/mount/AP_0x0000005f/x86_64/digikam-0.9.1-0.pm.1.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 3ab2ce5e



2007-03-30 20:53:11 OpenOffice_org-templates-labels-a4-1.0-3.noarch.rpm installed ok

2007-03-30 20:53:15 OpenOffice_org-templates-labels-letter-1.0-3.noarch.rpm installed ok

2007-03-30 20:53:45 OpenOffice_org-templates-presentation-layouts-2.0.4-10.noarch.rpm installed ok

2007-03-30 20:53:51 mono-data-sqlite-1.1.18.1-12.2.x86_64.rpm installed ok

2007-03-30 20:54:01 mono-web-1.1.18.1-12.2.x86_64.rpm installed ok

2007-03-30 21:18:48 digikamimageplugins-0.9.1-0.pm.1.x86_64.rpm installed ok

Additional rpm output:

warning: /var/adm/mount/AP_0x0000005f/x86_64/digikamimageplugins-0.9.1-0.pm.1.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 3ab2ce5e

No problem in the extract you gave. How many hard disks does your system have? Can you also post /boot/grub/menu.lst? Try to boot with noresume appended to the kernel command line in the grub menu when the system boots (when the boot menu appears, press ESC, ENTER, select opensuse 10.2, press E and edit the kernel line, press ESC, then B).

hi,
ive just noticed that my /boot/ catalouge is empty.. dont know why is that but seems like its not very good ...
anyway, i've found menu.lst file in /grub/menu.lst , here it is:

Code:

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Mon Mar 19 17:41:12 GMT 2007

default 6

timeout 8

gfxmenu (hd0,2)/message



###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###

title openSUSE 10.2

    root (hd0,2)

    kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/mapper/nvidia_ggccecaa_part8 vga=0x317 resume=/dev/mapper/nvidia_bdbeadcf_part2 splash=silent  showopts

    initrd /initrd



title windows XP

    rootnoverify (hd0,0)

    chainloader (hd0,0)+1



###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###

title Bezpieczne uruchamianie -- openSUSE 10.2

    root (hd0,2)

    kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/mapper/nvidia_ggccecaa_part8 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume edd=off 3

    initrd /initrd



title SUSE Linux 10.1 (/dev/mapper/nvidia_bdbeadcf_part1)

    kernel (hd1,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda8 vga=0x317 resume=/dev/mapper/nvidia_bdbeadcf_part2 splash=silent showopts

    initrd (hd1,0)/initrd



title windows 2

    rootnoverify (hd0,0)

    chainloader (hd0,0)+1



###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: xen###

title XEN

    root (hd0,2)

    kernel /xen.gz 

    module /vmlinuz-xen root=/dev/mapper/nvidia_ggccecaa_part8 vga=0x317    resume=/dev/mapper/nvidia_bdbeadcf_part2 splash=silent showopts

    module /initrd-xen



title Kernel-2.6.18.8-ccj45-default

    root (hd0,2)

    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-ccj45-default root=/dev/mapper/nvidia_ggccecaa_part8 vga=0x317 resume=/dev/mapper/nvidia_bdbeadcf_part2 splash=silent  showopts

    initrd /initrd-2.6.18.8-ccj45-default

When the boot menu appears, edit the opensuse 10.2 entry, as I described above, and change root=/dev/mapper/nvidia_ggccecaa_part8 to root=/dev/sda8 and delete the resume= line. Did this help?

it worked (more or less),
ive done excacly what U've said and ended with "give root password to log in" after some errors when fsck had to check file systems.
if that will help i can re write them but first i'd like to know if thers anything to do next (after loggin in).

i was looking for /grub/menu.lst file coz thought that have to edit all the entries and put sda instead of mapper but theres no such a catologue, might be that grub entries are on some other unmounted partition, my whole /home place is also on other partition.

You will probably need to do the same to the fstab entries, i.e. change all /dev/mapper lines to /dev/sda or /dev/sdb as appropriate. The reason for all this trouble might be a bug in the latest suse kernel upgrade, if you didn't modify /boot/grub/menu.lst yourself.