fsck.ext3 : Unable to resolve "LABEL=/"

[sharonenoch]

Hi

I have installed Fedora Core 3 and on booting up it gives the error

fsck.ext3:Unable to resolve "LABEL=/"
An error occured during filesystem check
Dropping you to a shell, the system will reboot
when you leave shell


Ok I searched on the net regarding this...

My /etc/fstab had the following entries

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/var/log /var/log ext3 defaults 1 2
.....
....


My grub.conf had the following entries

title StorTrends iTX 2.0 (2.6.9-1.667smp)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667smp ro root=LABEL=/ elevator=deadline vga=0x318 quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.667smp.img

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In maintenance mode i mounted the / in read - write mode

mount -n -o remount,rw /

I changed the /etc/fstab entries to the following

/dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/sda3 /var/log ext3 defaults 1 2

and the grub entry to

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667smp ro root=/dev/sda1 elevator=deadline vga=0x318 quiet

The output of "mount" command in maintenance mode gave me the following

/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/sda3 on /var/log type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)



and it worked.....

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But since i needed the LABEL=/ option to work

I first thought that the label are not be assigned correctly

I tried the command

e2label /dev/sda1 /
e2label /dev/sda3 /var/log

But still on reboot it did not work.

Why does it not work when giving the LABEL=/ and works when giving directly the /dev/sda1 value??

I searched in the net but could not find the answer why it does not work this way....

Anybody have any thoughts on this why the LABEL=/ does not work

[sharonenoch]

I verified if the labels are correct also

[root@ITX003048826c22 ~]# e2label /dev/sda1
/
[root@ITX003048826c22 ~]# e2label /dev/sda3
/var/log


One more check i made was that i left the grub entry as it is to LABEL=/

and changed the fstab entries to /dev/sda1 for / and /dev/sda3 for /var/log ...

It worked

So why is the label not working for fstab but works for grub....???

[sharonenoch]

I would take this to mean that fsck can't find a partition whose label is "/".
but /boot/grub/grub.conf is using "root=LABEL=/" then I myself am surprised
how i got to boot linux at all, yet I am able to.

[sharonenoch]

[root@ITX003048826c22 ~]# e2label /dev/sda1
/
[root@ITX003048826c22 ~]# e2label /dev/sda3
/var/log
[root@ITX003048826c22 ~]# fsck.ext3 LABEL=/
fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve 'LABEL=/'
[root@ITX003048826c22 ~]# echo $?
8
[root@ITX003048826c22 ~]# rpm -qa e2fsprogs
e2fsprogs-1.35-11.2


The above information may provide more insight to this issue

http://bugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin...91;archive=yes

The above link shows that this was a bug in the debian bug tracking system and supposed to be fixed....

but still it seems to exist on FC3 .....

[sharonenoch]

Ok I found the problem

The same has been posted in a rehat bug in bugzilla

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla....cgi?id=158499


It was a problem with the system date

when i gave the date command it showed me a date in 1902

when i rebooted the machine and went to bios it showed me a date in 2038

so while boot up i was getting an error message that not able to set system clock because the hardware clock was not in synchronisation or something like that

Now i changed the hardware clock in bios to the current time 2006, Jan... and the error about clock sync disappeared and the system clock was set...

The entry in fstab LABEL=/ worked without a problem

[maverick666]

Hi sharon
you could also change the label from the grub screen by editing the install commands

[Nishant Chauhan]

Hi sharon
you could also change the label from the grub screen by editing the install commands

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1

LABEL=/var/log /var/log ext3 defaults 1 2


instead of doing all that , you must have tried

putting

LABEL=/1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
i.e.a 1 after the /
it worked for me

and same for the /var/log1
i dont know the reason still but i got it solved om\n my own