[NBLUG/talk] Thinkpad T60p / Ubuntu 8.10 crash

Emanuel R emanuel at sonic.net
Wed Mar 24 10:18:17 PDT 2010


Thanks, Micxz!
Did just that, and replacing hard drive.

micxz wrote:
>
> 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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