unclean shutdown causes lucid stop booting

[NoOp]

On 02/11/2011 06:59 AM, ms wrote:
> On 09/02/11 11:32, Tapas Mishra wrote:
>> Here is a situation I am having a laptop where
>> I have 2 installations of Ubuntu 10.04 and 9.04
>> I was working with 10.04 version.
>> After some time I switched it with command poweroff.
>> Now I am not able to boot to 10.04
>> How ever I am able to get to 9.04 and continue work.
>> Let me know what should I do to over come this situation on 10.04 64 bit.
>>
>> --
>>
> 
> Just to be sure - Run a filesystem check ; Google can help you 
> understanding how to do it.
> 

Good advise.

Possibly related:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+bug/672177
Issues with orphaned inodes - check with:

$ dmesg | grep orphan

I was referred to that bug (672177) while I was trying to figure out
this one:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/os-prober/+bug/683355
[Natty os-prober fails to detect Maverick installation]

@ Tapas: From 9.04 run:

$ sudo fsck /dev/<10.04 partition>

and see if that helps.