[Bug 656526] Re: Device or resource busy while trying to open

[spirit]

I got this problem as well. This is the system of one of my roommates.

She has Windows XP and Ubuntu 10.04 in dual-boot, after a crash Ubuntu
won't start and complains that init was missing at boot:

  "No init found. Try passing init= bootarg."

I started from an Ubuntu 10.10 live CD and ran fsck from a terminal, but
it says:

  fsck.ext4: Device or resource busy while trying to open /dev/mapper/vg-trash
  Filesystem mounted or opened exclusively by another program?

What's the solution to all this? Would it be possible to fix this bug by
downloading and using a newer Live CD of Ubuntu? If so, which version is
the first one that will work?

Can I fix the bug with a newer CD but still keep the old system (10.04)?
She's not interested in updating her whole system every other day (every
6 months) and it's no coincidence she is running the LTS version, but if
only installing a newer version of the OS helps I'd do that, too.

Thanks for any hints,

spirit

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Title:
  Device or resource busy while trying to open

Status in “e2fsprogs” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: e2fsprogs

  After a system crash my Ubuntu didn´t want to boot due some problems
  in Ext4 filesystem. I was trying to repair filesystem with booting
  from Ubuntu LiveCD and run fsck.ext4 and e2fsck. But both programs
  said me that:

  fsck.ext4: Device or resource busy while trying to open /dev/sda1
  Filesystem mounted or opened exclusively by another program?

  But this partition wasn´t mounted, I checked it with mount command.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: e2fsprogs 1.41.11-1ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.44-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Oct  8 00:25:35 2010
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429.4)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: e2fsprogs

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