[ale] on topic: Centos 6 out of /root space, boots but no login.

[Neal Rhodes]

Yeah, that was what I was after, since Fedora Core 1 I never had to do
that to get a server back.    

turns out /var/log/messages got filled up with this glop below, and that
was end of game.     Removed that and it's running now. 

Sep  9 20:28:18 localhost kernel: ieee80211 phy0:
rt2800pci_txstatus_interrupt: Warning - TX status FIFO overrun, drop tx
status report
Sep  9 20:28:18 localhost kernel: ieee80211 phy0:
rt2800pci_txstatus_interrupt: Warning - TX status FIFO overrun, drop tx
status report
Sep  9 20:28:18 localhost kernel: ieee80211 phy0: rt2800pci_txdone:
Warning - Got TX status for an empty queue 3, dropping
Sep  9 20:28:18 localhost kernel: ieee80211 phy0:
rt2800pci_txstatus_interrupt: Warning - TX status FIFO overrun, drop tx
status report
Sep  9 20:28:18 localhost kernel: ieee80211 phy0:
rt2800pci_txstatus_interrupt: Warning - TX status FIFO overrun, drop tx
status report
Sep  9 20:28:18 localhost kernel: ieee80211 phy0: rt2800pci_txdone:
Warning - Got TX status for an empty queue 3, dropping
Sep  9 20:28:18 localhost kernel: ieee80211 phy0:
rt2800pci_txstatus_interrupt: Warning - TX status FIFO overrun, drop tx
status report
Sep  9 20:28:18 localhost kernel: ieee80211 phy0:
rt2800pci_txstatus_interrupt: Warning - TX status FIFO overrun, drop tx
status report
Sep  9 20:28:18 localhost kernel: ieee80211 phy0: rt2800pci_txdone:
Warning - Got TX status for an empty queue 3, dropping


On Thu, 2015-09-10 at 13:11 -0400, Scott McBrien wrote:
> 
> What about booting to single user mode?
> 
> 
> If that still won't work, you can put in your install media and boot
> to rescue mode, your / will be mounted at /mnt/sysimage.
> 
> 
> -Scott
> 
> On Sep 10, 2015, at 12:47 PM, <neal at mnopltd.com> <neal at mnopltd.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> > 
> > Well, darn.  Our trusty Centos 6 server ran out of space in /. 
> > 
> > 
> > It's natural and logical reaction was to not notify anybody, and
> > honk.   
> > 
> > 
> > My wife saw a message on her NX window, but we couldn't get a shell
> > to SU. 
> > 
> > 
> > Rebooting proceeds normally, and after about 2 minutes we just get a
> > blank screen. 
> > 
> > 
> > Short of building a Knoppix CD or some other means of booting off of
> > CD, is there a boot sequence that will just give me a root shell so
> > I can clean out the / filesystem?   This is a pretty stock Centos 6
> > install with mirrored drives. 
> > 
> > 
> > Neal Rhodes
> > MNOP Ltd
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