I have a Karmaic system that conflicts with mountall and fsck as well. I
have a data drive that is 500GB mounted to /media/Videos. Recently after
a reboot the system wanted to fsck the data drive. The first part of the
check according to the progress bar completed quickly, but the last few
For the Lay user:
Hit Ctrl+alt+f1 to get to terminal
Login as yourself
sudo chmod a+rwx /tmp
This problem is pretty serious since it totally prevents you from
logging in. I did a sudo apt-get upgrade before finding this bug report
and making the changes and even that didn't fix the problem.
Just wanted to add, since this failed to do the ntfsresize i tried
myself by setting my partion to 75G then going into fdisk and deleting
the partion and recreating it as 75G. I didn't have much to lose if the
windows blew up, it was more an excersize in doing it. I continued with
the install by
This problem occurs with an HP ML350 Server while i try and install
ubuntu 8.10 server after already having installed windows 2003 SBS
server. There are two raids on the controller, a 146GB raid 1+0 and a
500approx raid 5. and a second raid control that is simply being used to
provide access to a