recovery mode

[Andre Mangan]

Tony, could you try to run the diskcheck programme by typing "sudo touch
/forcefsck" into the Terminal (without the quotation marks.

Cheers,
Andre



On 03/08/07, Anthony J Brow <tbrow at tpg.com.au> wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
>         Your expertise will be really appreciated here. When installing
>         Skype, I
>         was testing the sound as there was no sound. Just could not get
>         it
>         work.Trying sound settings,is where my troubles started. Lost
>         ALL sound.
>         Then trying to get an email address from the 'evolution' address
>         book,
>         the system froze, I had to reboot.Tried again , same result.
>         Tried a
>         label/business card program  and it froze. I decided to try the
>         'generic
>         recovery mode'. There was an answer towards the end:
>
>         * Mounting local file systems*
>         (mntent): Warning ! No final newline at the end of /etc/fstab/
>
>         well, I looked it up in google, but the answers made no sense to
>         this
>         nooby, seeing some expected to go to the ' root' area. I have
>         seen
>         warnings NOT to fiddle with that.  So where do I go from here ?
>          I don't wanna loose my pictures or email addresses, by a total
>         re-install from the Feisty Cd.
>
>         thanks in advance
>         --
>         Anthony J Brow <tbrow at tpg.com.au>
>
>
>
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