Re: Fsck stops at boot, how to debug?

2010-02-08 Thread David MENTRE
Hello Markus, 2010/2/5, Markus Hitter m...@jump-ing.de: Boot off a live CD (or another partition) and do the fsck manually. If it still insists to fsck at boot time, hit the Esc key, this should abort checking. I've done the fsck from a Live USB key. There was no error! :-? Here is the log

Fsck stops at boot, how to debug?

2010-02-05 Thread David MENTRE
Hello, The regular fsck that occurs at the boot of my Ubuntu Karmic x86_64 machine is stopping (once at 83%, once at 90%). The disk is inactive (led off). I can reboot the machine through Ctrl+Alt+Del. How can I debug such a situation? Best regards, david -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Re: Fsck stops at boot, how to debug?

2010-02-05 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 05.02.2010 um 09:42 schrieb David MENTRE: The regular fsck that occurs at the boot of my Ubuntu Karmic x86_64 machine is stopping (once at 83%, once at 90%). The disk is inactive (led off). I can reboot the machine through Ctrl+Alt+Del. How can I debug such a situation? Boot off a live

Fsck stops at boot, how to debug?

2010-02-05 Thread Dane Mutters
If you are unable to complete fsck on that partition from the live CD, you may have a bad hard drive (bad sectors, etc.). To test for that, boot onto a live CD, open a Terminal, and use this command: sudo badblocks -svb 4096 /dev/sda This will test the integrity of hard drive /dev/sda. Please