recovery mode

[Andre Mangan]

Sorry, I forgot to add that you need to reboot after that command.



On 05/08/07, Andre Mangan <andremangan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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