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 note that even 1 bad sector means that the hard drive is bad (I can elaborate on this if necessary) and needs replacement. --Dane P. S. I've been a computer repair technician for many years. If you have further questions, you can email me directly. P. P. S. I accidentally hit the "reply" button instead of the "reply to all" button, at first. Sorry if you get two copies of this email. On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Markus Hitter <m...@jump-ing.de> wrote: > > 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 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. > > Markus > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter > http://www.jump-ing.de/ > > > > > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss >
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