installed 13.1, /usr mounted on own partition.error message "/usr/<> file not found"

hello.freeman · 06-18-2010, 05:45 PM

Can you show the info of 'cat /etc/mtab' ?

jmd9qs · 06-18-2010, 05:52 PM

tsg,

yes, but i formatted the / partition... it's not the first time i've done so but i don't think i've ever tried to "import" my old /usr before. i'm thinking that it's got something to do with it.

also, running /bin/ftp under my id works as intended

jmd9qs · 06-18-2010, 05:53 PM

Code:

l(jmd9qs@darkstar)-(0)-(04:51 PM Fri Jun 18)->
m-(~/Downloads/encfs)-(5 files, 936Kb)--> cat /etc/mtab                                                                                              
/dev/root / jfs rw,relatime 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
/dev/sda2 /home ext4 rw 0 0
/dev/sda4 /usr jfs rw 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/safe vfat rw 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0

hello.freeman · 06-18-2010, 05:57 PM

fgsdfsdf

jmd9qs · 06-18-2010, 05:58 PM

/usr is on /dev/sda4 (the 8th line down). it's mounted by /etc/fstab at boot

hello.freeman · 06-18-2010, 06:05 PM

I can't have any idea.
Well, I'll pay attention to it and hope someone can give the solution.

jmd9qs · 06-18-2010, 06:10 PM

well, thank you for trying!

jmd9qs · 06-18-2010, 06:12 PM

ok well i've decided to just to a fresh re-install and overwrite /usr... i'll make it a downloads partition or something.

thank you all for your help!

Richard Cranium · 06-18-2010, 06:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jmd9qs

ok well i've decided to just to a fresh re-install and overwrite /usr... i'll make it a downloads partition or something.

thank you all for your help!

If you have not already done so, you can drop into runlevel 1, login as root, and then run "jfs_fsck /dev/sda4" and see if that reports (and fixes) any problems.

I had similar very funky behavior with an xfs filesystem that had been corrupted due to memory problems. I had to repair the file system to make the funkiness go away.

jmd9qs · 06-18-2010, 06:38 PM

Richard,

fortunately the re-install fixed the problem. thanks for the input though! (i love how fast i can be up and running again, by the way... Slackware rocks!)

tsg · 06-20-2010, 01:16 AM

I had a feeling the install over top of Mandriva might be the issue. Slackware doesn't even like installs over top of old Slackware installations.