recovering garbled boot message/which partition is giving me problems?

[Matt Price]

Hi,

I have an amd64 desktop running edgy and lately there's been an annoying
problem on boot where one of the mounted partitions appears to fail a
check and I'm thrown into a rescue shell.  Unfortunately the failure
message is garbled and I can't tell which filesystem is messed up; this
is on a computer which I stupidly put far too many partitions on, in
avarious formats, with both LVM and RAID.  On boot my screen reads:

* checking file systems
fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
Replaying journal..
Reiserfs journal /dev/mapper/Anarres--65--main-home/ in blocks
[18..8211]: 0 transactions replayed
Checking internal tre..finished
Reiserfs super block in block 16 on 0xfd01 of format 3.6 with standard
journal
Blocks (total/free): 8864768/332652 by 4096 bytes
Filesystem is clean
/sbin/fsck.xfs: XFS file system.
(or type Control-D to continue): el and resume system boot.ion is
writable.  il]o

My fstab is as follows: 

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
/dev/mapper/Anarres--64--main-root /               ext3
defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/mapper/Anarres--64--main-home /home               reiserfs
defaults 0       2
/dev/mapper/Anarres--64--storage-audio /audio          xfs     defaults
0      2
/dev/mapper/Anarres--64--storage-backups /backups        ext3
defaults        0       2

# /dev/sda1 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
UUID=310761e3-a576-4dbb-998f-c30ee4e41cbf /boot ext3 defaults 0 2
# /dev/hda1 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
UUID=07cd6873-2a74-438b-9a71-2ed7659d457d /media/hda1 ext3 defaults 0 2
# /dev/sdb1 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
UUID=6721d590-fce7-415f-b526-62fc27fe2f4a /media/sdb1 ext3 defaults 0 2
# /dev/sdb2 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
UUID=22960c66-96bc-40c2-8412-ce901a30808b /media/sdb2 ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/mapper/Anarres-root /oldanarres     ext3    defaults        0
2
/dev/mapper/Anarres--64--storage-video /video          xfs     defaults
0       2
# /dev/hdb2 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
UUID=76d32310-06c9-48e5-ba72-3603afb15beb none swap sw 0 0
/dev/mapper/Anarres-swap_1 none            swap    sw              0
0
# /dev/sda2 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
UUID=6cbda03c-dd95-4327-bd39-4ddee71dc425 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
/dev/hdd        /media/cdrom1   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0

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I believe I've checked all of the individual file systems, but I still
get hung at the same place.  I'm beginning to wonder if the problem is
in the lvm or RAID layers.  That would be odd, though, as the system
also runs fine if I skip the maintainence shell and continue with the
boot.  

so anyway I just wonder whether there's any way to figure out what is
broken and how to fix it.  THanks!

matt


-- 
Matt Price
History Dept
University of Toronto
matt.price at utoronto.ca
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