Jaunty Boot-up Problem

[NoOp]

On 05/28/2009 02:00 AM, Graham Todd wrote:
> On Tue, 26 May 2009 11:43:36 -0700
> NoOp <snip> wrote:
> 
>> This might be of interest:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/58430
>> [Command-line recovery required when fsck reports an unexpectedy
>> inconsistency]
>> 
>> Graham, I'd backup your critical data before manually running fsck.
> [snipped]
> 
> All my critical data is now backed up on a hard drive, and I thank
> every one who has helped me.  I guess the instruction I should type in
> is:
> 
> fsck /dev/sda5

Before you fsck, I recommend making sure the partition is not mounted:

sudo umount /dev/sda5

If by chance it won't umount, then boot into recovery mode and do it
from the menu (fsck).