[SOLVED] i am unable to login to my NAS CentOS after reboot , XFS failed. please can you help?

Nick_baba · 10-31-2014, 12:18 PM

my HP DL180 RAID5 NAS CentOS XFS is not loading the CentOS after a reboot, the HP Smart Array Controller is displaying the following message:

Slot 1 HP Smart Array P410 Controller (512MB, V6.40) 1 Logical Drive
1792-Slot 1 Drive Array - Valid Data Found in Array Accelerator
Data will automatically be written to drive array.
1779-Slot 1 Drive Array - Replacement drive(s) detected OR previously failed drive(s) now appear to be operational:
Port 1|:Box 1:Bays 1,3
Port 2|:Box 1:Bay 8
Logical drives(s)disabled due to possible data loss.
Select "F1" to continue with logical drive(s) disabled
Select "F2" to accept data loss and to re-enable logical drive(s)
(Resume = "F1" or "F2" Key) [default = "F1" in 44 seconds]

I pressed "F1" and the CentOS is unable to load and it display the following message:

Welcome to CentOS
Starting udev: [OK]
Setting Hostname: NAS [OK]
/dev/sda3: clean, 38089/2629632 files 557410/10506240 blocks
/dev/sda1: clean, 62/51200 files, 114101/204800 blocks
/sbin/fsck.xfs: LABEL=xfs does not exist [FAILED]

*** An error occurred during the file system check.
*** Dropping you to a shell: the system will reboot
Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D to continue):

I tried typing the root password many times but it kept saying incorrect login and i am 100% sure i am typing the correct password, please can anyone advise me on how to solve this issue without losing all my data?
thank you very much in advance

smallpond · 11-01-2014, 01:03 PM

Pretty sure the HP RAID is a rebranded LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS controller. The "Valid Data Found in Array Accelerator" means there was data in battery-backed write cache after the reboot so it must not have been a clean shutdown. Not sure about the foreign drive messages. Were some drives replaced without going through the admin tools? HP ships the system with a diag utility. If you don't have the disk, poke around on their website for ADU.

Nick_baba · 11-03-2014, 11:27 AM

i am not using any admin tool...what happen is; i deleted a large amount of data, appormximatly 5 TB of data and rebooted the system after that, but i just looked at Nagios history and i see the following alert before the reboot: SERVICE ALERT: nas;HP RAID Health Check;CRITICAL;HARD;4;RAID CRITICAL - HP Smart Array Failed: Smart Array P410 in Slot 1 array A logicaldrive 1 (16.4 TB, RAID 6 (ADG), Interim Recovery Mode) physicaldrive 1I:1:3 (port 1I:box 1:bay 3, SATA, 3 TB, Failed)
i am gonna go ahead and replace the disk that failed and see if this helps otherwise i will look for the HP diag utility u seggested and ill update u.. thank u..

Nick_baba · 12-08-2014, 06:43 AM

Sorry for the late reply  after replacing the failed disk, the problem was still there but I managed to mount a rescue disk and copy some of the data “mainly the scripts” and re-installed the OS, the server is up running fine now. Thanks for your help!!