Red Hat

Hi,

I patched my RHEL 5.8 using yum update and then followed by updating vmware tools on my Virtual machine ( hosted on Vpshere), This is Oracle Database server.

After this when i rebooted - I saw may failed in the console.....with read only filesystem...........cat /etc/fstab was empty.......i went to single user mode and rewrite the /etc/fstab file ( same as another server) and server came up

What i am looking here::

Now, What are the things i should look for to find the cause, which caused /etc/fstab empty ( During my patching process i never touched this file anytime).....what are the logs which i can look to find the cause....

I have seen earlier that patching causes the /etc/fstab to be empty , some cases like when updating VMware tool etc, also causes /etc/fstab to empty (not empty but I think it causes to something default),
-so in the implementation plan to put one line to keep a backup copy of the /etc/fstab before activity start , and to check and copy back original /etc/fstab before reboot.

Hope this helps..

Thanks

Yes, After doing yum udpate, I rebooted the system here i was not able to ping my system so i updated vmware tools .....but could not ssh .now........i tried again updating vmware tools this time it failed when i ran
./vmware-tools-disturb/vmware-install.pl -d options then i ran vmware-config-tools.pl and it worked fine ..........i took a reboot then i saw failed messages in console.........and fstab empty

any article where i can find more information on this or can check vmware tools log.....( i do not have much exp on vpshere )