Re: [SLUG] Help -- I cannot boot into Ubuntu..
Scott Waller writes: > .I think your right. I have looked through the syslog and couldn't > find any issues, but now you've got me worried. Anyway I did a backup last > night. Seems to be quite stable at the moment. If you are, just 'touch /forcefsck' as root, reboot, and the distribution should check the filesystems for errors — which will catch any problems. > I wonder if when I passed the: > sudo mount -o remount, rw / > Then it wrote that to the /etc/fstab file?? No. None of the traditional Unix tools modify fstab, and certainly not mount. It might have come from a typo, or an administrative (usually GUI) tool, but not from there. > and in my panic just missed it. > What other things would cause a EXT3 file system to go into read only? Remounting 'ro' explicitly, dropping to the file system early enough in the boot process that it has not remounted to 'rw' yet, or corruption. Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons Looking for work? Love Perl? In Melbourne, Australia? We are hiring. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Help -- I cannot boot into Ubuntu..
Hi Erik, .I think your right. I have looked through the syslog and couldn't find any issues, but now you've got me worried. Anyway I did a backup last night. Seems to be quite stable at the moment. I wonder if when I passed the: sudo mount -o remount, rw / Then it wrote that to the /etc/fstab file?? and in my panic just missed it. What other things would cause a EXT3 file system to go into read only? Scott Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Scott Waller wrote: Thanks for the quick response. I went through the syslog file and couldn't find anything weird. Upon searching through other forums I found that in the /etc/fstab file a tag had been added: UUID=147ae6d1-e380-42cd-9471-66882c374580 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-rw 0 1 So I just took out the errors=remount-rw and it works a treat. I think it should have been "errors=remount-ro". If it was in fact the right value then your filesystems was having errors and unless you're ok with loosing data, you should probably figure whats wrong and get it fixed. Erik -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Help -- I cannot boot into Ubuntu..
Scott Waller wrote: > Thanks for the quick response. I went through the syslog file and > couldn't find anything weird. Upon searching through other forums I > found that in the /etc/fstab file a tag had been added: > > UUID=147ae6d1-e380-42cd-9471-66882c374580 / ext3 > relatime,errors=remount-rw 0 1 > > So I just took out the errors=remount-rw and it works a treat. I think it should have been "errors=remount-ro". If it was in fact the right value then your filesystems was having errors and unless you're ok with loosing data, you should probably figure whats wrong and get it fixed. Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Help -- I cannot boot into Ubuntu..
Hi Jake, Thanks for the quick response. I went through the syslog file and couldn't find anything weird. Upon searching through other forums I found that in the /etc/fstab file a tag had been added: UUID=147ae6d1-e380-42cd-9471-66882c374580 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-rw 0 1 So I just took out the errors=remount-rw and it works a treat. Thanks again Scott Jake Anderson wrote: Scott Waller wrote: Hi Fellow Slugger, Sorry for kinda dissapearing this year, just had some stuff on, and I am currently in the US. I really need someone expert help. I have a new setup on a laptop. It's a very nice Dell Precision M4400. I have been running Ubuntu 9.04 for 3 weeks now with no problems. This morning I went to boot up my machine and got a weird gdm message "Could not start the X serverdue to some internal error" The only way I can boot into X is to do the following... sudo mount -o remount, rw / then I can run sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart I get a message that there is already a session of X running blah blah, I say yes to start a new one and then I am in. I have to kill whiptail once I start as the CPU is going nuts... I am in the US working, i have a big next 4 days of training and would like to have my machine working. I am currently doing a backup of my home directory and seriously thinking about doing an online upgrade to 9.10 Your help is really appreciated. Scott your file system is being mounted read only, you need to solve that problem first. edit the kernel command in grub and delete the bits about silent and graphical then look at whats going on. if nothing jumps out there look through syslog -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Help -- I cannot boot into Ubuntu..
Scott Waller wrote: Hi Fellow Slugger, Sorry for kinda dissapearing this year, just had some stuff on, and I am currently in the US. I really need someone expert help. I have a new setup on a laptop. It's a very nice Dell Precision M4400. I have been running Ubuntu 9.04 for 3 weeks now with no problems. This morning I went to boot up my machine and got a weird gdm message "Could not start the X serverdue to some internal error" The only way I can boot into X is to do the following... sudo mount -o remount, rw / then I can run sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart I get a message that there is already a session of X running blah blah, I say yes to start a new one and then I am in. I have to kill whiptail once I start as the CPU is going nuts... I am in the US working, i have a big next 4 days of training and would like to have my machine working. I am currently doing a backup of my home directory and seriously thinking about doing an online upgrade to 9.10 Your help is really appreciated. Scott your file system is being mounted read only, you need to solve that problem first. edit the kernel command in grub and delete the bits about silent and graphical then look at whats going on. if nothing jumps out there look through syslog -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Help -- I cannot boot into Ubuntu..
Hi Fellow Slugger, Sorry for kinda dissapearing this year, just had some stuff on, and I am currently in the US. I really need someone expert help. I have a new setup on a laptop. It's a very nice Dell Precision M4400. I have been running Ubuntu 9.04 for 3 weeks now with no problems. This morning I went to boot up my machine and got a weird gdm message "Could not start the X serverdue to some internal error" The only way I can boot into X is to do the following... sudo mount -o remount, rw / then I can run sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart I get a message that there is already a session of X running blah blah, I say yes to start a new one and then I am in. I have to kill whiptail once I start as the CPU is going nuts... I am in the US working, i have a big next 4 days of training and would like to have my machine working. I am currently doing a backup of my home directory and seriously thinking about doing an online upgrade to 9.10 Your help is really appreciated. Scott -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
