unclean shutdown causes lucid stop booting

[Tapas Mishra]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 12:22 AM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> --
Thanks for the message by the time I saw this message I had formatted
the hard disk but I will surely keep it in mind for next time.