fstab, disk mounting issue

[Homer]

On 1/29/07, Toby Kelsey <toby.kelsey at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am replying directly to you as I am having problems with the list.
>
> Homer wrote:
> > I posted this the other day to the Kubuntu list and wasn't able to
> > generate any interest.
> > -----------------
> > With 6.10 AMD64 installed, the following line in my fstab file worked fine:
> > /dev/sdd1       /z              ext3    defaults        0       2
> >
> > The disk is a Seagate 750 GB SATA with an Addonics SATA/SCSI converter
> > connected.  I've since regressed my OS to 6.06.1 LTS i386 and now that
> > same fstab line results in the following error on boot (exactly as
> > presented):
> >
> > root at machine:~# s: command not foundhell and continue system startup.found. al
>
> That comes from 2+ messages:
>
>    "s: command not found"
>
> without a newline, probably from a broken admin script where a shell variable
> for an executable path is not substituted correctly, and
>
>    "CONTROL-D will exit from this shell and continue system startup."
>
> which is printed by /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh when fsck fails to check all
> filesystems.  This suggests that perhaps when you regressed your system some of
> the start-up scripts were not updated/reverted correctly, and/or perhaps one of
> your partitions has filesystem errors.  I would
>
> 1) read /var/log/messages and check for fsck error messages, if so then unmount
> and manually fsck the relevant partition(s).
>
> 2) check the output of 'dpkg -l initscripts' looks like
>
>    ii  initscripts                                 2.86.ds1-6ubuntu32
>
> i.e. it's installed properly and current.
>
> 3) run "dpkg -l|egrep -v '^ii|^rc'" to check for half-installed packages, and
> check for and fix any broken packages with Synaptic or apt.

Thanks and it did help.  I ran fsck on the drive and it found a bunch
of errors.  The machine is booting now with that line uncommented.