"File Manager" keeps loading

Unfortunately, nothing. Still not loading the application.

Nope, still nothing. I've re-checked and cleaned cookies and temp files for all the browsers I'm using, Chrome, IE, Firefox and Opera, all behave the same. I wonder if there's a way to deactivate/uninstall only the file manager in webmin and reinstall it again, maybe this "windows like solutions" will fix the problem.

I think I've found a clue, but not sure how to fix it. The last time I've used the file manager I've deleted, or so I thought, a folder on another hdd. I was thinking, that time, that the file manager just needs more time to delete it, but I think it actually timed out. Now, in the debug logs, there's the last line:

6796 [25/Apr/2011 13:03:59.111657] webminuser 115.87.208.143 mount CMD "cmd=e2label /dev/sdb1 2>&1"

I guess that there's a problem with the folder I was trying to delete or with the hdd, maybe. Also, under the hardware>partitions and local disks, when I click the second hdd I see this message, too: Errors logged   176 errors detected Of course, I have no idea how to fix it, if I'm right and is a hdd/partition issue. Is there a way to automatically check/fix disk errors, like on windows? I'm on centos 5.6, by the way. Also, unmounting and mounting the hdd doesn't help; I can unmount only using the force-unmount but when trying to mount again it just keeps loading.

I'm still trying to fix the errors. I've made an error check for the second drive and it has 178 errors. The drive is unmounted and all the umount commands I've found and tried are telling me this. However, the fsck doesn't want to check/fix it saying the opposite: the drive is in use by something (?!) From within webmin (hdd management) I got the "Failed to save mount : Failed to lock file /etc/fstab after 5 minutes" when I try to program the drive for a check at the next reboot. I'll be using "shutdown -rF now" now, but I'm afraid it will only check the first hdd, the one where the system is installed. We shall see...

OK, the "shutdown -rF now" (ssh) didn't work, nothing happens after the "The system is going to reboot..." message - I've waited half hour, I think the machine had should had enough time. Anyway, I'm just restarting now normally, from within webmin (system>bootup&shutdown), maybe some magic will happen and the system will remember the previous '-F' command and do the checking :) If not working, I'm afraid I'll adopt another radical solution and just reformat the drive :(

I'm sinking even deeper LOL The shutdown command doesn't seem to work, either. Server won't restart. I'm doing a reboot from the hosting provider panel now.

New things happened after the restart: - the hdd is not mounted, however from ssh it says it's mounted (when I run fsck); - same for the repair option under the webmin>hardware>partitions...etc; - trying to mount it again, from ssh or webmin, does nothing - ssh hangs and webmin "Failed to save mount : Failed to lock file /etc/fstab after 5 minutes"; - the file manager loads now;

Also, in the root folder '/' there a 'forcefsck' file that's empty - possible that the system tried the fsck after all but couldn't manage to fix it? Is there a way to perform the fsck and recover the drive? I know that if I tell the hosting company they'll just replace the hdd so I'll lose all the data there :(

Anyway, at least found out why the file manager was not loading.

There's a boot.log and a boot.log.1 but they're empty. The cat /etc/fstab will show:

/dev/sda1  /  ext3  grpquota,usrquota,rw,noatime  0  1
/dev/sda2         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
/dev/sdb1  /HDD  ext3  defaults,noatime  0  0

mount /dev/sdb1 will do nothing, I must restart the putty again. The lsof | grep /HDD will show: bash: lsof: command not found

There's a rescue console I forgot about in my hosting panel, I'll try to boot from it and check the hdd right now. There's nothing very-very important on my second hdd, only photos and games, but they're a few GB and I'll lose another week or two to upload them again, if everything fails. Anyway, thanks for the help, I'll write how things will work after this.

Hi there! I've managed to make it work. Well, actually I haven't done much, just restarted the server a thousand times until I've managed to unmount the drive. My hoster has some issues with the restart server and I couldn't use the recovery console. Anyway, the good news is that I've finally fsck-ed the drive and it repaired the problems. Now I'm trying to clean it from all the lost+found files it created. However, just wanted to thank you and to confirm that - or at least that's my noob conclusion - the file manager didn't load because of the second drive. Everything is fine now. Thanks again!