help me to rescue files after fedora 15 crash, pls!

txell · #1 9th June 2012, 08:50 AM

Hi comm!
I had fedora 15 on a second partition in my HDD. After a blue screen crash while using skype in xp I neither can access to my "world files" in fedora. It's something that has to do with pci.sys file missing, chkdsk and I tried with as many guides and recomms as I found googling but unsuccessfuly (and this is not the proper place for this bit otherwise than a reference). Case is, when triying to access to (fedora partition) what I got is:

Quote:

Dropping to debug shell
sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
dracut:/#

From a fedora-16 installed on a 32gb-pendriver I could access and backup files from my win-xp (except a program (damn it!) that by license questions I cannot reinstall if removing. They have sent to me a patch for doing it but as I cannot open my winXP environment I still don't know how to do it

). However I couldn't do that with my files on fedora and I need to.

Would anyone know to give me a clue?. Please. I'd appreciate it so much. I want to copy my files under home to somewhere.
Txell.

tashirosgt · #2 9th June 2012, 02:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by txell

I could access and backup files from my win-xp

Quote:

However I couldn't do that with my files on fedora

Do what? How did you attempt to access the files? Did you use a terminal and the command line? I think that's what you need to do.

txell · #3 10th June 2012, 10:32 PM

How might I access to the command line? All what I got rather is

Quote:

Dropping to debug shell
sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
dracut:/#

Thanks

tashirosgt · #4 11th June 2012, 01:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by txell

All what I got rather is

You still aren't saying what you did to get the error message. The message you quoted looks like an error from trying to boot Fedora. Is that what produced it?

Boot from a liveCd, open a terminal, become root and see if you can detect your files with the usual command line commands such as

Code:

fdisk -l

(this uses the letter "l", not the number "1")

Code:

vgdisplay

Code:

pvscan

Code:

lvscan

If possible, post your results.

The above commands merely report information. Don't do any command that copies, writes or moves files until you've educated yourself about its effects.

txell · #5 11th June 2012, 08:10 PM

Hi Tashirosgt,
Exactly, my friend. The quoted mess is what I got when trying to boot fedora-15 installed as 2nd partition on my HDD. That rescue, I posted earlier I could perform of some files located on the XP partition was done from a live fedora-16 installed on a usb memory stick, but I couldn't do same with files located on the 2nd partition because of a permission issue (see this thread

I will try anyway with your recommendation and post with news,
Thanks again.
Txe.

---------- Post added at 08:02 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:34 PM ----------

Hi there
This what I got fdisk -l output

Quote:

[liveuser@localhost ~]$ su
[root@localhost liveuser]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders, total 156301488 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6377cde8

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 126945630 63472784 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 126947328 127971327 512000 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 127971328 156301311 14164992 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/mapper/live-rw: 4294 MB, 4294967296 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 522 cylinders, total 8388608 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/mapper/live-rw doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/mapper/live-osimg-min: 4294 MB, 4294967296 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 522 cylinders, total 8388608 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/mapper/live-osimg-min doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/mapper/vg_localhost-lv_swap: 5301 MB, 5301600256 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 644 cylinders, total 10354688 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/mapper/vg_localhost-lv_swap doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/mapper/vg_txe-lv_swap: 2080 MB, 2080374784 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 252 cylinders, total 4063232 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/mapper/vg_txe-lv_swap doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/mapper/vg_txe-lv_root: 12.4 GB, 12415139840 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1509 cylinders, total 24248320 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/mapper/vg_txe-lv_root doesn't contain a valid partition table
[root@localhost liveuser]#

---------- Post added at 08:06 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:02 PM ----------

This is what output when I type> vgdisplay

Quote:

[root@localhost liveuser]# vgdisplay
/dev/vg_localhost/lv_swap: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 5301534720: Input/output error
/dev/vg_localhost/lv_swap: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 5301592064: Input/output error
/dev/vg_localhost/lv_swap: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
/dev/vg_localhost/lv_swap: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 4096: Input/output error
/dev/vg_localhost/lv_root: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 26306609152: Input/output error
/dev/vg_localhost/lv_root: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 26306666496: Input/output error
/dev/vg_localhost/lv_root: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
/dev/vg_localhost/lv_root: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 4096: Input/output error
--- Volume group ---
VG Name vg_txe
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 1
Metadata Sequence No 3
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 2
Open LV 2
Max PV 0
Cur PV 1
Act PV 1
VG Size 13.50 GiB
PE Size 32.00 MiB
Total PE 432
Alloc PE / Size 432 / 13.50 GiB
Free PE / Size 0 / 0
VG UUID 0ZBoRx-MMMp-WajB-kX0f-1WBN-PXbx-JHyvAo

[root@localhost liveuser]#

---------- Post added at 08:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:06 PM ----------

This is the output when I type pvscan

Quote:

[root@localhost liveuser]# pvscan
/dev/vg_localhost/lv_swap: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 5301534720: Input/output error
/dev/vg_localhost/lv_swap: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 5301592064: Input/output error
/dev/vg_localhost/lv_swap: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
/dev/vg_localhost/lv_swap: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 4096: Input/output error
/dev/vg_localhost/lv_root: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 26306609152: Input/output error
/dev/vg_localhost/lv_root: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 26306666496: Input/output error
/dev/vg_localhost/lv_root: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
/dev/vg_localhost/lv_root: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 4096: Input/output error
PV /dev/sda3 VG vg_txe lvm2 [13.50 GiB / 0 free]
Total: 1 [13.50 GiB] / in use: 1 [13.50 GiB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ]
[root@localhost liveuser]#

---------- Post added at 08:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:08 PM ----------

And this what I got when typing > lvscan

Quote:

[root@localhost liveuser]# lvscan
/dev/vg_localhost/lv_swap: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 5301534720: Input/output error
/dev/vg_localhost/lv_swap: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 5301592064: Input/output error
/dev/vg_localhost/lv_swap: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
/dev/vg_localhost/lv_swap: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 4096: Input/output error
/dev/vg_localhost/lv_root: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 26306609152: Input/output error
/dev/vg_localhost/lv_root: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 26306666496: Input/output error
/dev/vg_localhost/lv_root: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
/dev/vg_localhost/lv_root: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 4096: Input/output error
ACTIVE '/dev/vg_txe/lv_swap' [1.94 GiB] inherit
ACTIVE '/dev/vg_txe/lv_root' [11.56 GiB] inherit
[root@localhost liveuser]#

tashirosgt · #6 11th June 2012, 11:12 PM

See if you can read your Linux files by activating the volume group and mounting the volume with your linux root directory on it.

Activate the volumne group.

Code:

vgchange vg_txe -a y

Create a mount point

Code:

mkdir /media/myfiles

Mount the root directory

Code:

mount /dev/vg_txe/vg_root /media/myfiles

( If that doesn't work try using

Code:

mount /dev/mapper/vg_txe-lv_root /media/myfiles

)

If you get the files mounted, see if you can list and read them.

Code:

ls /media/myfiles

txell · #7 12th June 2012, 01:17 AM

Hi Tashirosgt,
This what I got as output:

Quote:

(...)
2 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg_txe" now active
[root@localhost liveuser]# mkdir /media/myfiles
[root@localhost liveuser]# mount /dev/vg_txe/vg_root /media/myfiles
mount: special device /dev/vg_txe/vg_root does not exist
[root@localhost liveuser]# mount /dev/mapper/vg_txe-lv_root /media/myfiles
[root@localhost liveuser]# ls /media/myfiles
lost+found
[root@localhost liveuser]#

tashirosgt · #8 12th June 2012, 02:44 AM

That's distubing. It looks like a freshly formatted partition.

Try

Code:

df - h

and see if it reports how much of /dev/sda3 is used.

txell · #9 12th June 2012, 09:05 PM

Hi Tashirosgt
Here the output I got>

Quote:

[root@localhost liveuser]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 4.0G 2.3G 1.7G 58% /
devtmpfs 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /dev
tmpfs 1.5G 352K 1.5G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 1.5G 28M 1.5G 2% /run
/dev/sr0 1.5G 28M 1.5G 2% /run/initramfs/live
/dev/mapper/live-rw 4.0G 2.3G 1.7G 58% /
tmpfs 1.5G 28M 1.5G 2% /run
tmpfs 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /media
/dev/sr0 605M 605M 0 100% /mnt/live
varcacheyum 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /var/cache/yum
/tmp 1.5G 12K 1.5G 1% /tmp
vartmp 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /var/tmp
/dev/mapper/vg_txe-lv_root 12G 9.0G 2.4G 80% /media/myfiles
[root@localhost liveuser]#

tashirosgt · #10 13th June 2012, 05:23 AM

That report shows that /dev/mapper/vg_txe-lv_root should have data in it. At the moment, I don't understand why you can't see the files when they are mounted on /media/myfiles. Do

Code:

du -h /media/myfiles

and see if it shows about 9G of files exist.

Is there anything complicated about your filesystems? Do you use RAID? or encryption?

txell · #11 13th June 2012, 01:44 PM

Hi Tahirosgt,
It's just a normal installation, my good friend, a fedora-15 on a 2nd partition in my laptop HDD.
I tried with the < du -h code > and below I post what I got but I think it was a bigger one report that I can't see completely but the part which fits in the terminal screen (I was after a parsing screen report unsuccessfuly, I need to learn some more I see..) Here the part I can copy and paste..
PD. Plus Here I only allowed to pos till 1000 ch long,

Quote:

1.9M /media/myfiles/lost+found/#147463/15/planetccrma
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#147463/15/livna/packages
8.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#147463/15/livna/gen
68K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#147463/15/livna
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#147463/15/planetcore/packages
13M /media/myfiles/lost+found/#147463/15/planetcore
24K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#147463/15/updates/deltas
28K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#147463/15/updates/packages
11M /media/myfiles/lost+found/#147463/15/updates/gen
205M /media/myfiles/lost+found/#147463/15/updates
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#147463/15/adobe-linux-i386/packages
1.1M /media/myfiles/lost+found/#147463/15/adobe-linux-i386
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#147463/15/rpmfusion-free/packages
16K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#147463/15/rpmfusion-free/gen
2.7M /media/myfiles/lost+found/#147463/15/rpmfusion-free
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#147463/15/fedora/packages
1.9M /media/myfiles/lost+found/#147463/15/fedora/gen
153M /media/myfiles/lost+found/#147463/15/fedora
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#147463/15/rpmfusion-free-updates/packages
16K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#147463/15/rpmfusion-free-updates/gen
6.3M /media/myfiles/lost+found/#147463/15/rpmfusion-free-updates
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#147463/15/rpmfusion-nonfree/packages
12K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#147463/15/rpmfusion-nonfree/gen
844K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#147463/15/rpmfusion-nonfree
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#147463/15/google/packages
156K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#147463/15/google
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#147463/15/Dropbox/packages
64K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#147463/15/Dropbox
386M /media/myfiles/lost+found/#147463/15
386M /media/myfiles/lost+found/#147463
8.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25180
16K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#15157
96K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#18664
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#19998
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/nn/cat1
24K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/nn
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/el/cat1
24K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/el
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/lt/cat1
24K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/lt
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24K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/vi
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/ar/cat1
24K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/ar
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24K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/hr
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/de.UTF-8/cat1
24K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/de.UTF-8
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4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/cat6
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/ja/cat8
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/ja/cat1
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32K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/pt_BR
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28K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/id
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32K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/pl
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24K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/fr.UTF-8
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24K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/eu
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24K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/da
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24K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/ps
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36K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/sv
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24K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/nb
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/cs/cat8
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/cs/cat1
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32K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/cs
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/fo/cat1
24K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/fo
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28K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/pt
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24K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/th
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24K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/te
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24K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/pl.UTF-8
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56K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/local
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4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/ko/cat8
24K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/ko
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/fi/cat1
24K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/fi
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/en_GB/cat1
24K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/en_GB
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/it/cat8
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/it/cat1
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/it/cat3
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/it/cat5
36K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/it
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/bg/cat1
24K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/bg
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/sk/cat8
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/sk/cat1
28K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/sk
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/es/cat8
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/es/cat1
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/es/cat5
32K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/es
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/ru/cat8
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/ru/cat1
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/ru/cat3
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/ru/cat5
40K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/ru
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/de/cat8
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/de/cat1
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/de/cat5
32K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/de
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/ro/cat1
24K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/ro
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/gl/cat1
24K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/gl
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/fr/cat8
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/fr/cat1
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/fr/cat3
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/fr/cat5
36K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/fr
2.1M /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211
8.8G /media/myfiles/lost+found
8.8G /media/myfiles
[root@localhost liveuser]#

tashirosgt · #12 13th June 2012, 03:29 PM

Try

Code:

du -c -h /media/myfiles/lost+found

At the very end of the output there should be a grand total of bytes in the directory. If this total is about 9G then I'd say your files have been put in the lost+found directory.

txell · #13 14th June 2012, 12:58 AM

Hi Tashirosgt,
It seems that it's as you said.. isn't it? then, what? (excuse my ignorance, my friend )

Quote:

[root@localhost liveuser]# du -c -h /media/myfiles/lost+found

(...)

24K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/ro
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/gl/cat1
24K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/gl
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/fr/cat8
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/fr/cat1
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/fr/cat3
4.0K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/fr/cat5
36K /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211/fr
2.1M /media/myfiles/lost+found/#25211
8.8G /media/myfiles/lost+found
8.8G total
[root@localhost liveuser]#

---------- Post added at 06:13 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:49 PM ----------

OOk, ok, ok. I think I got it, my friend.

I should work on it and I right back with news
Txe

---------- Post added 14th June 2012 at 12:58 AM ---------- Previous post was 13th June 2012 at 06:13 PM ----------

I could see my files sir, even I could cd to ~home/txe and ls command with list my home dir(s) enterely. I was about make a "cp -r" or smething so that to copy them to somewhere but the system got froze. Perhaps that about opening another storage place where to locate them was too much or too long loop, I dunno.
Now the system cannot even recognize the HDD when rebooting. Just as if it were taken out, it doesn't exist anymore.
I was about to get it.

Now I have nothing.

tashirosgt · #14 14th June 2012, 01:50 AM

You probably have a hardware problem. Are your BIOS settings still correct? Does the hard drive even spins up. On a desktop machine, you can open the case and listen to hard drive to tell that. What model hard drive is it?

txell · #15 14th June 2012, 07:08 PM

when looking at BIOS, the only different setting I can note is that line saying HDD none. As if no were any HDD installed. I got a Hitachi Travelstar (SATA) 2.5 inch. 5400 rpm.
Txe