[NBLUG/talk] Power failure left me in a bad state

[Michael Dooley]

On 1/4/2011 8:03 PM, Jippen wrote:

> First thing I would do here would be to run fsck. Very likely, your
> issue is harddrive corruption.

Not quite, but a nice guess anyway.

> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Roger House<rhouse at sonic.net>  wrote:
>> I had a power failure a short while ago, abruptly shutting down both my old
>> machine (running Ubuntu 9.04) and my
>> new machine (running 10.04).  Now, my old machine reboots okay (so far), but
>> my new machine does not.  Things
>> seem to proceed as normal until the purple screen with "ubuntu" in the
>> middle comes up.  There are 5 white dots
>> which each turn red in turn.  Then, nothing.  The purple screen with
>> "ubuntu" and 5 red dots just sits there.
>>
>> It seems that for the most part Ubuntu is running on the new machine because
>> I can do the following:
>>
>>      1.  ssh into the new machine from the old one.
>>
>>      2.  On the new machine type "rseiub" while pressing Alt-SysRq.  This
>> allows me to select a
>>           "recovery mode" boot of Ubuntu, which allows me to login on the
>> command line.
>>
>> The problem is this:  Once I'm logged into the new machine, I have no idea
>> what to look for to find out why it seems
>> to be stuck at the splash screen.
>>
>> Any help will be greatly appreciated
>>
>> Roger House

It turned out to be an instance of a Plymouth malfunction, something the 
newer versions of ubuntu have saddled us with. Rebooting magically fixed 
it.

-- 
Michael