[Bug 204097] Re: When fsck fails, the machine reboots and does the check again

2008-04-04 Thread Greg Yates
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 209416 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/209416 Thank you Mary Gardner, your description on using fdisk and fsck was short and excellent. I have been workking for three days trying to fix my broken Ubuntu partition. WinXP hikkuped and required a boot disk

[Bug 204097] Re: When fsck fails, the machine reboots and does the check again

2008-04-01 Thread Mary Gardiner
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 209416 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/209416 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 209416 fsck not repairing corruption on boot -- When fsck fails, the machine reboots and does the check again https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204097 You rece

[Bug 204097] Re: When fsck fails, the machine reboots and does the check again

2008-03-30 Thread Theodore Ts'o
See my comment on bug 209416. -- When fsck fails, the machine reboots and does the check again https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204097 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.c

Re: [Bug 204097] Re: When fsck fails, the machine reboots and does the check again

2008-03-30 Thread Mary Gardiner
Re the possible other bug have a look at the file /var/log/syslog at just before the crash and see if that gives you any clues. ** Attachment added: "unnamed" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12982853/unnamed -- When fsck fails, the machine reboots and does the check again https://bugs.launchpa

[Bug 204097] Re: When fsck fails, the machine reboots and does the check again

2008-03-30 Thread Andrew
I have been having to power off my machine lately in gutsy, because it freezes and cannot be accessed or "CTLR + ALT + BACKSPACED". It has been unresponsive. So, lately I've just had to power off. That too may have caused my file system error. I should probably report that as a bug too. But, I ha

Re: [Bug 204097] Re: When fsck fails, the machine reboots and does the check again

2008-03-30 Thread Mary Gardiner
Maybe I've confused people with the bad hard drive thing. ONE fsck with errors is not necessarily the result of a bad hard drive. It could be a bad shutdown (although journalled filesystems like ext3 are less susceptible) or other things. It's if you need to REPEATEDLY manually fsck a hard drive (i

[Bug 204097] Re: When fsck fails, the machine reboots and does the check again

2008-03-30 Thread Jim Hutchinson
Yep. Same here. My system had errors and then got into an endless reboot pattern - or I suspect would have been endless if I hadn't stopped it. I booted the live CD and ran fsck. Attached is the output of the check showing the errors. To be honest, I find it hard to believe that so many errors were

[Bug 204097] Re: When fsck fails, the machine reboots and does the check again

2008-03-25 Thread Andrew
In hindsight though, I have been using the "Ext2Fsd-0.37" program on windows xp occasionally. Who knows if i caused the errors accidentally on my system. oh, and p.s.: when the fsck had froze, and rebooted. It seemed to freeze at 30%. not 60%. Don't if that helps though. -- When fsck fails,

[Bug 204097] Re: When fsck fails, the machine reboots and does the check again

2008-03-25 Thread Andrew
We'll, I did what you suggested. I booted into recovery mode, and ran fsck /dev/sda1. It found a file system with errors. After fixing them, my system boots fine. Thanks for the help. I've never actually done a manual fsck check before. I do not think I have a failing hard disk though. I think ha

Re: [Bug 204097] Re: When fsck fails, the machine reboots and does the check again

2008-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
Andrew's bug does have the same symptoms of mine, except for one unknown: we don't know if he had file system errors. Andrew, do you know if you have filesystem errors? You can get the fsck to complete by booting into recovery mode (root shell), finding out which partition has Linux on it if you d

[Bug 204097] Re: When fsck fails, the machine reboots and does the check again

2008-03-21 Thread Andrew
I would like to confirm. It's a bit hard to understand from the explanation above, but I think i have relatively the same problem. After installing the latest updates on my hardy heron today (Mar, 22, 2008), I rebooted. Upon the boot-up the normal splash screen appeared, and soon underneath I no