SCO Open Server 6 - System Halt

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Dear All,

Newbie here, hope my post goes to the correct room.

System: SCO Open Server 6.0

Everything running well, after this Sunday morning noone can login via telnet or via putty, the system suddenly reject without any message (and also ftp). The local IT Support there (without enough knowledge of SCO Unix) try to restart the system manually twice and get an error message:

Warning: msgcnt1 1 vxfs: mesg 016 vx_ilisterr / file system error reading inode 373.

And after showing the message, the system will dump memory and show another message that the system is halt, press anykey to restart.

If I try to restart, again the system will showing the message.

From searching the Internet, the message shown above related to I/O error. But since I cant login to the system there's nothing that I can do.

At this point, really dont know how to save the data inside the disk. Should I re-installing the system ?

Or try to install a new system and put the harddisk and doing recovery from a new fresh installed server ?

Or SCO Open Server 6.0 installation CD have an option "rescue" ?

Sorry for my poor English.

Warmest Regards,
Virgani D

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If you re install the operating system, you will lose any data on the root file system.
Do you have a backup of all of your application data?
If you install onto a new disk, and then mount the original disk as a secondary disk, you will be able to selectively copy files from it to the new disk.
Do you have a complete system backup?
Consider buying this product http://www.microlite.com

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Hi Jgt,

Thanks for the reply.

  1. Re-installing the system: Honestly, hope it'll be the last option
  2. Install a new server: hmmm, I just hope I can figure out the problem with install a new server and then mount the original disk and hopefully fix the problem with original disk
  3. Complete system backup: *sigh* I worried not, the system is manage by other person

Errr how about recovery diskette ? do you think it's possible to boot the system with recovery diskette and then try to fix the problem ?

For now, I'm looking for any solution so I can enter the system as a root.

Warmest Regards,
Virgani Dhirgacahya

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All,

After dig and dig and dig, will try this:
Backup and Restore

Will inform you later with the result.

Warmest Regards,
Virgani Dhirgacahya