P1 Server won't reboot after power cut

Owned by Charles Twist
Nov 20, 2024
1 min read

If a P1 server disk has been corrupted eg by power failure and the server will not boot beyond an error prompt it may be possible to recover it as follows

  1. If it is virtualised system (ie running P1 under virtualbox) then

  • Open Windows Task Scheduler

  • Locate P1 Server Start task

  • Enable it

  • Reboot the host PC

  • Start the vm manually and show the console

  1. Try and recover the file system

Check the screen and it may say file system /dev/sda1 corrupt, run fsck manually

From initramfs prompt do

fsck /dev/sda1

Now answer yes to any questions other than do you want to optimise which answer no

Then use command

exit

The system may boot normally now

  1. If it is virtualised then

  • Open Windows Task Scheduler

  • Locate P1 Server Start task

  • Enable it

  • Reboot the host PC

  1. Check the system is now running

login as tassta with your user password

Check the dongle is connected with command

lsusb

Use command

su and enter root password

try command

log-server

and check that it appears to be running normally