lz1dsb
February 21st, 2010, 10:28 PM
Hi guys.
I just had a terrible lockup (my keyboard and mouse were completely locked) after inserting one USB flash drive while running Windows 7 as a virtual machine in Virtual Box (basically I wanted to check whether the virtual machine will detect the USB device and use it). So anyway, I've waited for a while to give a chance to the system to recover, but no, nothing really helped. So I had to hard reset my laptop to get back in control of the situation :) After that, as usual in such cases, I had an error message telling me that my /home partition couldn't be mounted. So in the recovery console I've mounted it and rebooted (I didn't performed file system check on that partition before mounting it though, which I regret). Usually in such cases after this step, I don't have any further issues. But now, each time I reboot I get and message like "Filesystem checks are in progress:" and it shows me that my /home partition is being checked. There's no indication of the progress though. I've left in for more than 3-4 minutes, but it doesn't shows signs of finishing. I'm able to boot to X by pushing the ESC button and skipping these checks, but after several reboots, I still see the above mentioned message. So basically my question is: how to get rid of it? I was thinking that if I could run fsck on my home partition I could solve this (and of course I need to umount the partition to perform the file system checks), but for this I need to be on a console with the ability to shut down the X manager (at least this is the way I've done it so far on other machines, but it could be another way...). On older versions of Ubuntu I was able to use Ctrl-Alt-F1 or other functional key to get from the X session to a console session (which also works on my brother's Slackware). But here in Karmic, this combination isn't working at all. So has something changed in Karmic in that respect? Any ideas on that issue?
Cheers,
Boyan
I just had a terrible lockup (my keyboard and mouse were completely locked) after inserting one USB flash drive while running Windows 7 as a virtual machine in Virtual Box (basically I wanted to check whether the virtual machine will detect the USB device and use it). So anyway, I've waited for a while to give a chance to the system to recover, but no, nothing really helped. So I had to hard reset my laptop to get back in control of the situation :) After that, as usual in such cases, I had an error message telling me that my /home partition couldn't be mounted. So in the recovery console I've mounted it and rebooted (I didn't performed file system check on that partition before mounting it though, which I regret). Usually in such cases after this step, I don't have any further issues. But now, each time I reboot I get and message like "Filesystem checks are in progress:" and it shows me that my /home partition is being checked. There's no indication of the progress though. I've left in for more than 3-4 minutes, but it doesn't shows signs of finishing. I'm able to boot to X by pushing the ESC button and skipping these checks, but after several reboots, I still see the above mentioned message. So basically my question is: how to get rid of it? I was thinking that if I could run fsck on my home partition I could solve this (and of course I need to umount the partition to perform the file system checks), but for this I need to be on a console with the ability to shut down the X manager (at least this is the way I've done it so far on other machines, but it could be another way...). On older versions of Ubuntu I was able to use Ctrl-Alt-F1 or other functional key to get from the X session to a console session (which also works on my brother's Slackware). But here in Karmic, this combination isn't working at all. So has something changed in Karmic in that respect? Any ideas on that issue?
Cheers,
Boyan