Re: A few questions

[Oommen Thomas <oommen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, root wrote:

root> Dear chennailug-ites,
root> 
root> I have these two problems to pose. Please give me a solution:
root> 
root> 1. How do I kill a process that has gone into an UNINTERRUPTABLE SLEEP
root> (without rebooting, of course).
root> 

Find out the (child)processes related to this and kill all of them.

root> 2. Local partitions are not mounting automatically on boot up. root gets
root> mounted - that's all. If I use fstool (from X), it reports the size of all
root> file systems to be 83 (which is supposed to be the partition tye) and the
root> partition type as unknown. Linuxconf, however, reports everything
root> properly. Right now, I have a script in rc3.d which is executed right at
root> the beginning, that mounts the local partitions. My guess is that fstab
root> has some problems. Please clarify.
root> 

1st check fstab.
Is there any error message when booting up?
If the fstab has an invalid entry, it usually skips the rest and gives a
repair prompt....

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Oommen


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