[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu not booting up

[Colin Law]

On 20 November 2012 11:30, David King <linuxman at avoura.com> wrote:
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> On 19/11/12 10:31, Simon Greenwood wrote:
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> On 19 November 2012 10:22, David King <linuxman at avoura.com> wrote:
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>> I am using Ubuntu Studio 12.04 and all was well until today, now I can no
>> longer boot into it. I get some text on the screen but it does not get as
>> far as letting me log in.
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>> First it was some messages about not being able to touch some files in my
>> home directory due to read only file system. I did a hard reboot (keyboard
>> was unresponsive) and then next time I tried to boot there were various
>> other messages. I had to hard reboot again and boot into a different distro.
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>> What could be wrong with it?
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> The first issue suggests that you might have a problem with your disk but we
> need more information Is the other distro working? Can you see the Ubuntu
> Studio partition from the other distro? How is your machine configured?
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> I can boot into Linux Mint from the same hard disk (using it now). I can see
> the Ubuntu Studio partition okay, it is not corrupted. I also did a
> filesystem check and that did not turn up any errors.

When booted into Mint have a look at /var/log/syslog in the Studio
partition and see if any rude messages there.

Colin