Sometimes we come across scenarios where Airwave boot process is stuck with FSCK error as below screen shot. At this time we have to enter the root password to proceed further with the file system check.
Diagnostics:
On versions prior to 8.2.4 if we enter the root password it will do the filesystem check and fix it. However, post 8.2.4 we dont have a root user, hence it wont accept any other password and it keep on looping back to the above screen.
Solution
We can fix this issue by running the file system check from Linux rescue mode. To do this first mount the ISO for Airwave or centos to the server. When it boots up with the ISO on the boot prompt type "Linux rescue"
boot: linux rescue
Once done run the below commands for doing an LVM scan if you have used Linux LVM to create your partition
lvm pvscan
lvm vgscan
lvm lvchange -ay VolGroup00
lvm lvscan
Once done we can umount "/" so that we can do the file system check
chroot /mnt/sysimage
umount /
We can execute the below command to do the file system check
fsck -f -y /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
Once done we can reboot the server using the below command,
reboot
Now the server should be booting up fine.
