[ubuntu-in] error while booting

[Dnyanraj Mali]

Hi,



On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 5:30 PM, <ubuntu-in-request at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> From: "ramnarayan.k at gmail.com" <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>
> To: Ubuntu India Local Community <ubuntu-in at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:04:25 +0530
> Subject: [ubuntu-in] error while booting
> Hi
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> Just a while back i got an error while booting up.
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> I tried to note down the entire error message was but have missed parts
> of it - what i have is here
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> There was a message gdm failed to load because of some ???
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> Its related to my /dev/sda7 partition which happens to be my root section
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> Further it seems that my /tmp had become write only and logs could not
> be written to this section.
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> so i ran fsck from the root terminal that popped up after all the error
> messages
> Anyway some of the error message that i wrote down were
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> Unexpected inconsistency , run fsck without -a -p, manually
> after which i got a whole lots of questions
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> entry linc-6d75-0-12bf 7c 998e14a in /tmp/orbit-ram (73388) has deleted
>  unused inode 74681 fix (y)
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> Block bitmap difference (216067 - 216073) etc etc Fix (Y)
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> free block count wrong from group 6# (4519 counted = 4528) fix (Y)
> above message came for blocks 9 and 10
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> similar messages about Directories Count etc all fixed
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> at the end it said in caps "FILE SYSTEM MODIFIED"
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> then on trying to reboot it got stuck with messages in red
> "Failed to load authorization key /root/.plse-cookie read only file system"
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> /tmp read only file system
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> It then came back to a blue screen with a long message again saying GDM
> failed to start x server -
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> so panicking i tried to switch to a different terminal and reboot
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> which i did with sudo shutdown -r now
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> and it rebooted back normally.
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> So what could have happened


There is possibility that your hard disk has  some bad sectors(physical)..
or if you have some windows partitions on you hard disk, it might not been
properly shut down. I mean there might be some power failure when you are
using windows & next u booted in ubuntu directly..
If this is true then you need to restart in windows & run scandisk & reboot
in ubuntu.. your problem will be solved..

If you dont have windows, try booting from ubuntu live cd & run fsck from
the cd, this will confirm whether you have bad sectors(physical) on hard
disk or not..


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> and where can i find the error logs / startup logs if any
> what diagnostics can i fun
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> I let Ubuntu run its automatic fsck every once in a way which it does
> Recently installed kde but have not changed my desktop manager from gdm
> to kdm (as yet)
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> would be grateful for advice
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> thanks
> ram
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Dnyanraj Nivas Mali

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