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phriday613
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mingetty?

This is the Second time!!

Linux froze up, and got totally screwy..

it came back and asked me to fsck, so i did..
then it froze scanning, part 2 or something..
now, it says

/sbin/mingetty: /sbin/mingetty: cannot execute binary file
alot, and it shows

INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
/sbin/mingetty: /sbin/mingetty: cannot execute binary file
INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
/sbin/mingetty: /sbin/mingetty: cannot execute binary file
INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
/sbin/mingetty: /sbin/mingetty: cannot execute binary file
...
i think you may know the idea..

what does this mean, and how to i get back to kde to get my website working!? Geez, and i was just getting to learn apache, then this came up..

dont wanna flame, but linux isnt very stable to me.. what am i doing wrong that i have to rely on windows??! :P

DeHackEd
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Oh boy... sounds like the /sbin/mingetty program became corrupted. You're going to need to reinstall it from the installation CD-ROMs.

If I had to guess, I'd say you have some bad hardware. Have you tried running a memory checking program, or a hard disk surface scan?

If you're in a graphical desktop, you won't be able to see the details of any system crashes. If you expect the system to crash again, leave it on the console.

phriday613
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ok.. how go i boot into 'safe mode' to perform this copy?
Im assuming all i have to do is copy the program mingetty to the /sbin/ folder.. am i right?

I have checked the hardware.. it works fine, like i said it froze up.. i OC'ed the cpu, which probably is the cause..
said by DeHackEd:
If you're in a graphical desktop, you won't be able to see the details of any system crashes. If you expect the system to crash again, leave it on the console.

Can you explain this a little better? i used KDE before, and i DONT WANT another crash :P

how can i prevent this from happening again?
Jon_Hanson
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If you don't want this to happen again don't overclock. That's a sure way to make a system unstable. You might not have had a problem under Windows with this overclocked system but that's because Windows is a little more forgiving on memory timings. Linux is not. To get rock-solid stability (especially if you're going to be running a web site) don't overclock.

phriday613
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sounds easy.. consider it done

now, how can i get back up?!?!

DeHackEd
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Reboot your system.

At the boot prompt, assuming LILO, you would type the following:
LILO Boot: linux single
Something similar can be done using GRUB. I just don't know what.

This will boot you to a shell running as root. You'll need to reinstall mingetty. How to do this varies by your distribution. But be careful, I doubt the corruption of mingetty was an isolated incident. Other files may have been affected as well.

Then again, reinstalling might be the quickest way out, assuming there is nothing of value on your system yet.

phriday613
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umm i dont get a prompt.. theres a screen with 2 choices Linux and DOS

after that, it does that start up process, ok'ing the services..
phriday613

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i just got finished installing the damn system 3 days ago!

im gonna rescue, then if that doesnt work, reinstall

davidsmind
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said by phriday613:
im gonna rescue, then if that doesnt work, reinstall
good idea! You could also try getting a mingetty binary off one of us kindly folk here at the ATU forum as a plug in replacement to your corrupted version.

phriday613
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UPDATE:

I gave up, so i reinstalled..
I lost my schoolwork from this past semester
What a pity o well...
Im back up (hopefully for a while!)

Thanks for the help everyone..
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Perhaps you didn't understand davidsmind's sarcasm.

Reinstalling is never the best solution. Do it only as a last resort.

Like DeHackEd pointed out, that may have been your only way out, but it doesn't look like you tried very hard. Getting a new mingetty binary would have been a start.

phriday613
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oh.. i didnt know how to do that:(

The prob with being new to certain scenarios, you always screw up

hey, my stupidity made me lose all my schoolwork..

SO if this happens again, how would i get the mingetty file?
Mount the cd, rpm the package from the CD?

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yeah that sounds like it might work but you would need access to your current rpm dependancy database so I figure you would do somthing more along the lines of this:

1.Boot from the install cd
2.Switch to the underlaying command line (ctrl-alt-f3?)
3.mount your / directory and anything else you need as rw (read/write)
4.<i>chroot</i> to /bin/[ba]sh to /mnt/rootmountpoint
5.Remount the cdrom with the rpms on it under /cdrom
6.Install the needed rpms with <i>rpm -Uvh mingetty_package.rpm</i> and if it bitches at you about deps add a --force option.

bling bling a brand new mingetty.

phriday613
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ok.. its printed out for a later crash..

Next time i know what to do...

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Before your computer gets accustom to its new install, you should try gentoo. I would have never learned half of what I just explained to you if not for Gentoo, plus the installer is a synch cause all you gotta do is follow the instructions. Gentoo doesn't force you to learn Linux, it lets you learn Linux.

I swear I had tried every distibution from Debian to Sourcery to Redhat to Mandrake over my first year of using Linux and I have learned more in the past 3-4 months I have been using Gentoo then all those distros but together.

phriday613
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i dont have another HD to spare, but when the money comes around, ill definately go for it. Ive seen some posts on it..

Is it relatively new?

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said by phriday613:
i dont have another HD to spare, but when the money comes around, ill definately go for it. Ive seen some posts on it..

Is it relatively new?
No I am suggesting you use Gentoo instead of what you are using now(Redhat?). What do you have to lose? Some time maybe but that is about it, and like I said the knowlege gained is tremendous.

It is a bleeding edge distribution, if there is a beta for a program that you like out there, it is in portage(Gentoo's software managment system). It is like apt on crack, which means you get the newest programs at the cost of stability (this is the theroey at least but my machine has been up 15 days and my debian Sid machine crashed more then that). You also compile all your programs from source, meaning that they'll be optimized for your machine. If you want gauranteed stability wait a month or two, there working on a stable, server version of portage.