init: hwclock main process terminated with status 2

[scott]

On 1/24/2011 11:49 AM, NoOp wrote:
> On 01/23/2011 12:09 PM, scott wrote:
>> I don't have a clue how this happened. I turned off my laptop, unplugged
>> it and the next time I turned it on, the subject line is what I saw. It
>> drops me to a maintenance shell.
>>
>> I've googled my butt off and everything I tried did not work. I've tried
>> 'mountall start', 'init 2', I've tried setting the hwclock with 'hwclock
>> --set --date xx/xx/xxxx'. I've fscked /dev/sda5 from a live cd, chrooted
>> to it from the cd all to no avail.
>>
>> Even though I'm root in the shell, I can't mount the volume. I get
>> permission denied. I've tried everything I can think of short of
>> reinstalling. XP works fine from grub. Every kernel I try, I get the
>> same thing, including the recovery options.
>> Any ideas?
> 
> Typically that erorr msg will accompany the actual error msg. For example:
>     init: hwclock main process (nnn) terminated with status 2
>     .: can't open /etc/default/rcS
>     init: mountall main process (nnn) terminated with status 2
>     filesystem check failed
> That guy's problem was /etc/default/rcS.
> 
> Post the entire output of the message, or take a photo of the screen &
> post somewhere. Also, boot to a liveCD and take a look at your /var/log
> files to see if you can spot any obvious error messages.
> 
> 
I think it had to do with a missing mount point. In any case, I just
reinstalled and kept my /home and everything is back to normal. I sure
would like to know what caused it, though.


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