General error mounting file system

[Eric]

Alvin wrote:
> On Thursday 01 April 2010 13:05:52 Eric wrote:
>> I get that error when I boot up. The message continues by saying it will
>> terminate the shell and try again. I've gotten this message before and
>> the computer usually boots fine although there are times when I try to
>> boot that it never loads past the Kububtu progress bar. The drive light
>> is on, showing activity but it won't load.
>>
>> Any idea what the problem is or what the solution is?
> 
> Please tell us the exact error message(s).
> 
> Also, if necessary, post the contents of /etc/fstab, /proc/mounts and the 
> output of 'blkid'.
> 

Okay. Thanks for the help.


# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
#  -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda5 :
UUID=2d26ae5b-8b51-47cf-ab9a-b6c9507c951d / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Entry for /dev/sda6 :
UUID=5045cfd0-c1f8-4660-afc9-b8888b8ef914 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

Here's /proc/mounts

rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
none /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
none /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/2d26ae5b-8b51-47cf-ab9a-b6c9507c951d / ext3 
rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=writeback 0 0
none /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw,relatime 0 0
none /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts 
rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
none /var/run tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
none /var/lock tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
none /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc 
rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/ericjackson/.gvfs fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon 
rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000 0 0

And blkid

$ sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="42A01D05A01D0159" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda5: UUID="2d26ae5b-8b51-47cf-ab9a-b6c9507c951d" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda6: UUID="5045cfd0-c1f8-4660-afc9-b8888b8ef914" TYPE="swap"


Eric