glacialfury
June 17th, 2009, 05:50 AM
SOLVED: The problem described in this thread was solved by booting via LiveCD, and running fsck (from within the GUI partition manager) on both partitions.
Quick: errors after upgrade, particularly with Impress; now system boots to grub prompt and has filesystem errors when trying to mount either / or /home partitions from within LiveCD
Please help. Serp, bought in summer 2008,
Regards,
glacialfury
ps: as a temporary fix, if I can launch the (functional) Windows partition from that grub prompt, and someone knows how, I'd be much obliged; I have time-critical work on this laptop.
Long:
My dear friends,
I have run into an unfortunate problem, and once again need your expertise. I have been using my Windows partition primarily for the past few weeks, and started up Ubuntu yesterday. I recently upgraded to 9.04 (on a serval, I *think* serp3? serp4? Purchased in summer, 2008) without looking at the System76-specific upgrade instructions. It seemed to work ok and updates were fine. I experienced some application errors while doing some work, I don't recall what, but they didn't seem important at the time, and eventually tried logging out and back in, which caused a failure that made the machine switch to manual/safe/repair console and told me to run fsck, because there was a problem with the filesystem (sda3, where /home is mounted).
I ran fsck, which encountered a number of errors, all of which it offered to fix. I pressed "y" for each offer; this eventually went over 1200 times, most of which were apparently reassigning things to blocks. I rebooted, and this time it wanted fsck for the root partition; I did the same thing there, pressing "y" for each proposed fix.
I rebooted, and things seemed to be working alright, although OpenOffice seemed a lot buggier than usual. I attributed it to the heavyweight powerpoint files I was making it deal with. At some point, Impress stopped showing the pictures (text displayed), I couldn't see any programs I opened after that point (although I could close them - invisibly - with the "Force Kill Window" applet thingy by randomly clicking in the right spot), and when I tried to log out to "refresh" X, it was blocked by OpenOffice - would I like to end it and log out anyway?
Sure, I said. Next reboot landed me at the grub prompt.
At this point, I'm writing from a LiveCD. I can't access my data on either the root partition or the /home partition. When I try to mount either from within the Places menu (where the partitions are all correctly listed), I receive the error:
"Cannot mount volume. Unable to mount the volume.
Details: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog -try dmesg | tail or so"
I *can* mount the windows partition from the LiveCD.
Quick: errors after upgrade, particularly with Impress; now system boots to grub prompt and has filesystem errors when trying to mount either / or /home partitions from within LiveCD
Please help. Serp, bought in summer 2008,
Regards,
glacialfury
ps: as a temporary fix, if I can launch the (functional) Windows partition from that grub prompt, and someone knows how, I'd be much obliged; I have time-critical work on this laptop.
Long:
My dear friends,
I have run into an unfortunate problem, and once again need your expertise. I have been using my Windows partition primarily for the past few weeks, and started up Ubuntu yesterday. I recently upgraded to 9.04 (on a serval, I *think* serp3? serp4? Purchased in summer, 2008) without looking at the System76-specific upgrade instructions. It seemed to work ok and updates were fine. I experienced some application errors while doing some work, I don't recall what, but they didn't seem important at the time, and eventually tried logging out and back in, which caused a failure that made the machine switch to manual/safe/repair console and told me to run fsck, because there was a problem with the filesystem (sda3, where /home is mounted).
I ran fsck, which encountered a number of errors, all of which it offered to fix. I pressed "y" for each offer; this eventually went over 1200 times, most of which were apparently reassigning things to blocks. I rebooted, and this time it wanted fsck for the root partition; I did the same thing there, pressing "y" for each proposed fix.
I rebooted, and things seemed to be working alright, although OpenOffice seemed a lot buggier than usual. I attributed it to the heavyweight powerpoint files I was making it deal with. At some point, Impress stopped showing the pictures (text displayed), I couldn't see any programs I opened after that point (although I could close them - invisibly - with the "Force Kill Window" applet thingy by randomly clicking in the right spot), and when I tried to log out to "refresh" X, it was blocked by OpenOffice - would I like to end it and log out anyway?
Sure, I said. Next reboot landed me at the grub prompt.
At this point, I'm writing from a LiveCD. I can't access my data on either the root partition or the /home partition. When I try to mount either from within the Places menu (where the partitions are all correctly listed), I receive the error:
"Cannot mount volume. Unable to mount the volume.
Details: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog -try dmesg | tail or so"
I *can* mount the windows partition from the LiveCD.