On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 01:07:28PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > On 17/05/15 01:53 PM, Victor Munoz wrote: > >On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 01:08:31PM -0400, Victor Munoz wrote: > >>Hi, everyone. Last night I updated a lot of files in my sid system, > >>and today morning I cannot boot. Actually, it hangs after announcing > >>it will run fsck. I know that the partition was scheduled to a routine > >>check after 32 times (I receive a message before shutdown when that is > >>about to occur), however today the system says that it will run fsck > >>because the system was not cleanly mounted (which I do not understand, > >>because I shutdown the system from the command line last night, no > >>power failure or similar abnormal situation). Could this inconsistency > >>be related to my problem? > >> > >>Anyway, is it possible to bypass the fsck at boot time? I am able to > >>reach the boot prompt by typing "c" at the boot menu, but beyond that > >>I don't know what to do. Googling has not helped me as it leads me to > >>other issues with grub and fsck which do not seem to give me ideas I > >>can apply to my problem. > >> > >>I think that if I can at least skip the check, I could do some work, > >>check the filesystem manually and try to go ahead somehow. > >Hi again. Now I've been able to skip the check, after learning that > >adding the fastboot option at the boot command works. Of course, I do > >not intend to avoid checks forever, so now the problem is that fsck > >does not do anything (or doesn't seem to). Some issue with fsck? With > >my filesystem? Any suggestion as to how to diagnose this? > > > >Thanks again, > > > >Victor > Boot from a live CD like systemrescueCD and run fsck manually. > > Also, make sure smart monitoring is turned on and check the disk's > health status.
Hi, thanks for the suggestion. I am currently checking the disk with smartctl. A short test said there was no problem, I am going now with the long test. Then I will try to run fsck from a live CD. Victor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150517211940.gb2...@llacolen.ciencias.uchile.cl
