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

[Vadim Kotov]

Found a solution for this, posted here : http://superuser.com/a/427005
* Boot from a live Ubuntu CD
* Remove the first inode
sudo debugfs -w /dev/sda1
debugfs 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010)
debugfs: clri <8>
debugfs: quit
* Restart into Live CD again and do
sudo fsck -yv /dev/sda1

It will work this time.

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Title:
  Device or resource busy while trying to open

Status in “e2fsprogs” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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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