[BlueOnyx:25327] Re: Failed to mount /sysroot (metadata corruption detected) BO 5209R

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Arie,

> Out of the blue the server rebooted at 16:18. And will not boot 
> properly. Tried all five kernels, recovery, to no avail.
> Few lines from journal:
> XFS (dm-0): Starting recovery (logdev: internal)
> XFS (dm-0): Metadata corruption detected at 
> xfs_inode_buf_verify+0x14d/0x160 [XFS], XFS_INODE BLOCK 0X402540 
> XFS_INODE  etc etc
> blablabla
> blablabla
> XFS (dm-0) log mount/recover failed: error 117
> XFS (dm-0) log mount failed
> mount: mount /dev/mapper etc on /sysroot failed: Structure needs cleaning
> code=exited status=32
> Failed to mount /sysroot.
> 
> Ideas, anyone, apart from booting recovery dvd and attepmting xfs_repair??


Sorry, but at that point there is only two options: Boot off a rescue 
media and see what you can salvage from the trashed disk, or (better 
yet) go for the backups. :-/


-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber