[ubuntu-in] error while booting
ramnarayan.k at gmail.com
ramnarayan.k at gmail.com
Fri Mar 6 10:34:25 GMT 2009
Hi
Just a while back i got an error while booting up.
I tried to note down the entire error message was but have missed parts
of it - what i have is here
There was a message gdm failed to load because of some ???
Its related to my /dev/sda7 partition which happens to be my root section
Further it seems that my /tmp had become write only and logs could not
be written to this section.
so i ran fsck from the root terminal that popped up after all the error
messages
Anyway some of the error message that i wrote down were
Unexpected inconsistency , run fsck without -a -p, manually
after which i got a whole lots of questions
entry linc-6d75-0-12bf 7c 998e14a in /tmp/orbit-ram (73388) has deleted
unused inode 74681 fix (y)
Block bitmap difference (216067 - 216073) etc etc Fix (Y)
free block count wrong from group 6# (4519 counted = 4528) fix (Y)
above message came for blocks 9 and 10
similar messages about Directories Count etc all fixed
at the end it said in caps "FILE SYSTEM MODIFIED"
then on trying to reboot it got stuck with messages in red
"Failed to load authorization key /root/.plse-cookie read only file system"
/tmp read only file system
It then came back to a blue screen with a long message again saying GDM
failed to start x server -
so panicking i tried to switch to a different terminal and reboot
which i did with sudo shutdown -r now
and it rebooted back normally.
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So what could have happened
and where can i find the error logs / startup logs if any
what diagnostics can i fun
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I let Ubuntu run its automatic fsck every once in a way which it does
Recently installed kde but have not changed my desktop manager from gdm
to kdm (as yet)
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would be grateful for advice
thanks
ram
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