Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Dec 1998 12:16:33 +1100 (EST) | From | Aaron Lehmann <> | Subject | HELP!! "Unable to open initial console" |
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I just had the weirdest day. This morning, I recieved reports that my linux box was acting a little weirdly. It was supposedly not accepting any connections. I was at school when I heard about it, but I attempted to verify it (good thing i sit near a computer). So, basically all the services (telent, smtp, pop, ftp) would disconnect you in a few miliseconds. The weirdest of all was apache. It said that all directories were forbidden. It would be understandable if something had gone wrong with inetd, but apache, which is NOT running from inetd, expressed similar wackieness. Of course the machine still repsonded to pings. This led me to believe taht some cracker was playing a bad prank on me. I called my father and asked him to check on the poor little box.
I tried connecting again latter. Nothing. The machine was down. Why would my father have turned off the machine? Or was it the hacker who decided to rm -rf /?
The moment I got home, I saw on the screen a seemingly normal boot scroll. It was stopped after the line "VFS: mounted root fs read-only" with "Unable to open initial console". Same thing happens under 2.0.35 and 2.0.36. I would try a rescue disk but my floppy drive does not seem to be working.
My questions are: 1) What does that message mean? 2) How can I fix it? 3) How did the daemon wackiness evolve into this? Did I get hacked? It seems as if the hacker was able to screw up the hardware somehow!!
Thanks A LOT if you can help!!! This machine is my mail server for my whole family and my hundreds of messages a day from linux-kernel must all be bouncing, as well as all my mail from anyone else who needs to reach me. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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