Dup 2: Bad File Descriptor...Whuzzat mean?

[Michael]

I'm running Red Hat 7.2 (I think, kernel 2.4.7-10 according to uname -a)
on my home computer. I had trouble deleting a cd.iso image on my last
good boot. I shut it down normally this morning. This afternoon when I
tried to reboot it instead of rebooting I got a bunch of error messages
ending with dup 2: Bad File Descriptor. I then was dropped into a repair
mode where I had to enter the root password, or Cntl D to continue. I
entered the root password, did an fsck (which didn't work). When I
exited the machine attempted to reboot, whereupon I started the whole
thing over again. Does anyone know what this means and what I should do
about it?

If I haven't included pertinent information I can look again once I get
home. Any help would be appreciated.

Mike

[Michael]

Thanks for the quick answer. I'll give this a try.

Mike



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[Mauriat]

Michael wrote:

> I'm running Red Hat 7.2 (I think, kernel 2.4.7-10 according to uname -a)
> on my home computer. I had trouble deleting a cd.iso image on my last
> good boot. I shut it down normally this morning. This afternoon when I
> tried to reboot it instead of rebooting I got a bunch of error messages
> ending with dup 2: Bad File Descriptor. I then was dropped into a repair
> mode where I had to enter the root password, or Cntl D to continue. I
> entered the root password, did an fsck (which didn't work). When I
> exited the machine attempted to reboot, whereupon I started the whole
> thing over again. Does anyone know what this means and what I should do
> about it?
>
> If I haven't included pertinent information I can look again once I get
> home. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Mike
>
>
>

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[Michael]

I tried what was suggested in this posting and am still having the same problem.

It suggests doing the following

mount -n -o remount,rw /
rm -f /dev/null
mknoe -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3

After issuing the 'mount -n -o remount,rw /'

I get:

mount: could not open /proc/partitions, so UUID and LABEL conversion cannot be done.

mount: no such partition found.

I'm not sure what to do from here. Any suggestions?

output from the mount command gives:

/dev/hda2 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5, mode=620)

Even though it shows /dev/hda2 as read write, it seems to have stuck somehow as read only. I've had
intermittent problems in the past of a device (a card reader) hanging up and showing as read only
when it should be read,write. Reformatting it under DOS has fixed the problem. I'd like not to format
this whole Hard Drive because there are things on it that I'd like to save.

Any help would be appreciated,
Mike




Mauriat wrote:

> Michael wrote:

> > I'm running Red Hat 7.2 (I think, kernel 2.4.7-10 according to uname -a)
> > on my home computer. I had trouble deleting a cd.iso image on my last
> > good boot. I shut it down normally this morning. This afternoon when I
> > tried to reboot it instead of rebooting I got a bunch of error messages
> > ending with dup 2: Bad File Descriptor. I then was dropped into a repair
> > mode where I had to enter the root password, or Cntl D to continue. I
> > entered the root password, did an fsck (which didn't work). When I
> > exited the machine attempted to reboot, whereupon I started the whole
> > thing over again. Does anyone know what this means and what I should do
> > about it?
> >
> > If I haven't included pertinent information I can look again once I get
> > home. Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> >

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