[NBLUG/talk] Thinkpad T60p / Ubuntu 8.10 crash

micxz micxz at micxz.com
Tue Mar 23 16:55:30 PDT 2010


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This might be the obvious suggestion. But make your backups now! Save
what you can and wouldn't trust this drive anymore sorry to say. Maybe
make backups via network if you can.  Every time I've been forced to
run fsck manually the disk dies soon after it's still worth a try but
I would make backups a priority. man fsck first then run it fsck
/dev/hda (for example). Good luck! - Micxz

emanuel at sonic.net wrote:
> This  morning my laptop froze. (IBM Thinkpad T60p, Ubuntu 8.10)
> DOn't have a live CD at hand since did all upgrades online.
>
> I powered down and restarted and got the following message.
> Relatively new Linux user and not sure which is best way to
> proceed. Have a lot of information I cannot loose. Any suggestions?
> Proceed with manual fsck? Do you know a link to specific command
> instructions online? Any comments suggestions appreciated. Thank
> you much in advance. Emanuel
>
> Message at boot time: ------------------------------ ... checking
> drive /dev/sda4: 8% (stage 1/5, 35/282) over and over /dev/sda4:
> Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found
> /dev/sda4: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY (i.e.,
> without -a or -p options)
>
> fsck died with exit status 4 Checking drive /dev/sda4: 9% (stage
> 1/5, 37/282) [fail]
>
> *An automatic filesystem check (fsck) of the root filesystem
> failed. A manual fsck must be performed, then the system restarted.
>  The fsck should be performed in maintenance mode with the root
> filesystem mounted in read-only mode. The root filesystem is
> currently mounted in read-only mode. A maintenance shell will now
> be started. After performing system maintenance press CONTROL-D to
> terminate the maintenance shell and restart the system. give root
> password: bash: no job control in this shell
>
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