Thanks. I haven't been using that machine for some time (I bought a laptop), so as far as I am concerned this bug is not a problem at the moment. If I go back to using the other machine, I'll try installing the latest ubuntu on it and then see if it's still a problem.
cheers, andy baxter Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Hi Andy, > > I have a sneaking suspicion that what's confusing you is that there is > some other filesystem which is NOT your root filesystem that has a label > of "/". E2fsck will use the label assuming it is more "human friendly" > than the raw device name. However, if some other device (say, > /dev/hda1) has a label of "/", but which is NOT your real root > filesystem, this would result in very confusing behavior. When you ran > e2fsck /dev/hda5 from a rescue CD, it printed the following: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# e2fsck /dev/hda5 -d -f > e2fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005) > Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes > Pass 2: Checking directory structure > Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity > Pass 4: Checking reference counts > Pass 5: Checking group summary information > /dev/hda5: 125124/1224000 files (0.7% non-contiguous), 732289/2443880 blocks > > If /dev/hda5 had a label of '/', it would have printed: > > /: 125124/1224000 files (0.7% non-contiguous), 732289/2443880 blocks > > But, it didn't. However, the filesystem that reported the warning > with the bad root directory caused e2fsck to report: > > /: Root inode is not a directory. > > So what I would suggest is that you use the command "e2label /dev/hdXX" > where /dev/hdXX gets replaced with each of the ext2/3 filesystems > mentioned in your /etc/fstab. I suspect that some other filesystem > other than your root filesystem, /dev/hda5, has a label of '/', and this > is confusing you. > > Regards, > > -- filesystem check fails on boot, but filesystem isn't bad https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/48563 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
