Failling to upgrade to 12.10 from 12.04lts

**cariboo907** · September 26th, 2012

Are you sure the fsck problem is related to your upgrade problem? Have you booted from a Live CD and run fsck on the partition you are having the problem with?

**Drefhill** · September 27th, 2012

I'm not sure if it's related but before i make the update everything (if we forget all the habituals problems) were working well and now nothing.
I booted from an USB drive and i don't find how to lunch fsck from the USb drive.

**Drefhill** · September 27th, 2012

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**cariboo907** · September 28th, 2012

Originally Posted by Drefhill

I'm not sure if it's related but before i make the update everything (if we forget all the habituals problems) were working well and now nothing.
I booted from an USB drive and i don't find how to lunch fsck from the USb drive.

Open a terminal, and type:

Code:

sudo fsck -y /dev/sda1

OF course substitute the partition in the command above, for the one you're having a problem with.

For more command options, see:

Code:

man fsck

**Drefhill** · September 29th, 2012

it just take like half a second and it just say that it's clean.

**Drefhill** · September 29th, 2012

message to be erased.

I can't find how to do it.

**Drefhill** · September 30th, 2012

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**cariboo907** · October 1st, 2012

HAve you tried using nomodeset to get to a desktop, at the grub menu press e, and add nomodeset to the end of the kernel line. If that doesn't work. try removing quiet and splash from the kernel line.

**jerrylamos** · October 1st, 2012

Originally Posted by Drefhill

That's what i don't wanna do.
It must have an other solution to remake the starting part.
Maybe with the help of an USBlive.
Reinstall the grub or lightdm or something else.

How can i know if it's in read/write or only read ?

In development release, expect to install often and have backup partitions. Updates do crap out. We learn a lot of linux dealing with the wreckage. A few of the bugs I enter into Launchpad get fixed, some go away with updates, some are ignored and I have to do workarounds. Beta 2 is worse on wireless WPA and TV monitor support. Despite bugs entered, I think Ubuntu is far more interested in dumping in fancy features I don't use. I run Beta2 looking for bugs then boot 12.04 2D to get some work done faster.

**Drefhill** · October 1st, 2012

Originally Posted by cariboo907

HAve you tried using nomodeset to get to a desktop, at the grub menu press e, and add nomodeset to the end of the kernel line. If that doesn't work. try removing quiet and splash from the kernel line.

How can i get to the GRUB ? I only get it randomly once in a while.