I'm running Red Hat 7.2 (I think, kernel 2.4.7-10 according to uname -a)
on my home computer. I had trouble deleting a cd.iso image on my last
good boot. I shut it down normally this morning. This afternoon when I
tried to reboot it instead of rebooting I got a bunch of error messages
ending with dup 2: Bad File Descriptor. I then was dropped into a repair
mode where I had to enter the root password, or Cntl D to continue. I
entered the root password, did an fsck (which didn't work). When I
exited the machine attempted to reboot, whereupon I started the whole
thing over again. Does anyone know what this means and what I should do
about it?

If I haven't included pertinent information I can look again once I get
home. Any help would be appreciated.

Mike

Michael wrote:
> I'm running Red Hat 7.2 (I think, kernel 2.4.7-10 according to uname -a)
> on my home computer. I had trouble deleting a cd.iso image on my last
> good boot. I shut it down normally this morning. This afternoon when I
> tried to reboot it instead of rebooting I got a bunch of error messages
> ending with dup 2: Bad File Descriptor. I then was dropped into a repair
> mode where I had to enter the root password, or Cntl D to continue. I
> entered the root password, did an fsck (which didn't work). When I
> exited the machine attempted to reboot, whereupon I started the whole
> thing over again. Does anyone know what this means and what I should do
> about it?
>
> If I haven't included pertinent information I can look again once I get
> home. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Mike
>
>
>

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...nnrp1.deja.com

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Thanks for the quick answer. I'll give this a try.

Mike



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I tried what was suggested in this posting and am still having the same problem.

It suggests doing the following

mount -n -o remount,rw /
rm -f /dev/null
mknoe -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3

After issuing the 'mount -n -o remount,rw /'

I get:

mount: could not open /proc/partitions, so UUID and LABEL conversion cannot be done.

mount: no such partition found.

I'm not sure what to do from here. Any suggestions?

output from the mount command gives:

/dev/hda2 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5, mode=620)

Even though it shows /dev/hda2 as read write, it seems to have stuck somehow as read only. I've had
intermittent problems in the past of a device (a card reader) hanging up and showing as read only
when it should be read,write. Reformatting it under DOS has fixed the problem. I'd like not to format
this whole Hard Drive because there are things on it that I'd like to save.

Any help would be appreciated,
Mike




Mauriat wrote:

> Michael wrote:
> > I'm running Red Hat 7.2 (I think, kernel 2.4.7-10 according to uname -a)
> > on my home computer. I had trouble deleting a cd.iso image on my last
> > good boot. I shut it down normally this morning. This afternoon when I
> > tried to reboot it instead of rebooting I got a bunch of error messages
> > ending with dup 2: Bad File Descriptor. I then was dropped into a repair
> > mode where I had to enter the root password, or Cntl D to continue. I
> > entered the root password, did an fsck (which didn't work). When I
> > exited the machine attempted to reboot, whereupon I started the whole
> > thing over again. Does anyone know what this means and what I should do
> > about it?
> >
> > If I haven't included pertinent information I can look again once I get
> > home. Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> >
>
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...nnrp1.deja.com
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For anyone still following this thread-Success at last! At first the
solution that Mauriat pointed me to didn't work.
I did a little Googling around and pieced together the following:

Somehow /proc wasn't getting mounted even though the ouput of the mount
command showed it was mounted
correctly. So I manually mounted it and then did what Mauriat suggested.
Then I was able to boot normally.
I then did an fsck just to be safe. So in all the solution went like this:

mount /proc

mount -o -n remote,rw /
rm -f /dev/null
mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3

I still have no idea what happened but now things are working for me. It
might work for you but there are no
guarantees.

Michael




Michael wrote:

> I'm running Red Hat 7.2 (I think, kernel 2.4.7-10 according to uname -a)
> on my home computer. I had trouble deleting a cd.iso image on my last
> good boot. I shut it down normally this morning. This afternoon when I
> tried to reboot it instead of rebooting I got a bunch of error messages
> ending with dup 2: Bad File Descriptor. I then was dropped into a repair
> mode where I had to enter the root password, or Cntl D to continue. I
> entered the root password, did an fsck (which didn't work). When I
> exited the machine attempted to reboot, whereupon I started the whole
> thing over again. Does anyone know what this means and what I should do
> about it?
>
> If I haven't included pertinent information I can look again once I get
> home. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Mike