grub and VMware

[kozmo]

I've been happily running sugarcrm-os-4.5.0b-x86.vmware for a while. Today, when I rebooted the system suddenly went into grub mode, displaying the grub prompt. I have no idea how to make the system boot from there. Can somebody help me out?

[kozmo]

I finally managed to boot issuing:

grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17.11-1.1.x86.i686.cmov ro root=LABEL=/
grub> initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.17.11-1.1.x86.i686.cmov.img
grub> boot

For some unknown reason /boot/grub.conf had become empty. I updated it with:

title SugarCRM Open Source Appliance release 4.5.0f (2.6.17.11-1.1.x86.i686.cmov)
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17.11-1.1.x86.i686.cmov ro root=LABEL=/
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.17.11-1.1.x86.i686.cmov.img

Then I found out that MySQL couldn't start:

[root@c-b984e055 ]# tail /var/log/mysqld.log
070411 13:37:39 [ERROR] Can't start server: can't create PID file: No space left on device

I found big log files and deleted them:

[root@c-b984e055 ]# find / -name *.log | xargs ls -l

Additionally, the EMAILS table had crashed:
MySQL error 145: Table './sugarcrm/emails' is marked as crashed and should be repaired

[root@c-b984e055 ]# mysql
mysql> connect sugarcrm;
mysql> check table emails;
mysql> repair table emails;

Now, disk space is at 95%.

[root@c-b984e055 ]# df -h
Filesystem   Size  Used  Avail  Use%  Mounted on
/dev/sda1    916M  820M    49M   95%  /
none         126M     0   126M    0%  /dev/shm

[nathanbthomas]

There are a couple of possibilities here. One is that you ran out of space- more info on dealing with that is here:

http://www.sugarcrm.com/wiki/index.p..._Guide#TROUBLE

The other is that somehow you pulled an update in the few minutes where a kernel was made available that broke vmware. If you did, you're the only case I've run into, but it's possible. There was a switch to smp only kernels that was an issue briefly.

If this is still an issue, let me know.

Nathan