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Old February 22nd, 2007   #1
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Exclamation fsck died with exit status 4 [Solved]

So this morning when I started my computer up, I updated my system, and then I kept getting errors about how my file system was in read only mode. So I thought I'd restart.

When it was booting back up, it started fsck, and said:

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/dev/shm/root contains a file system with errors, check forced.
/dev/shm/root:
Inode 5849438 has illegal block(s).

/dev/shm/root: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
               (i.e., without -a or -p options)
fsck died with exit status 4
It then drops me into a maintenance shell, and I have no idea what to do really. It will do this over and over again.

Hopefully this doesn't mean my harddrive is failing.

I'm running Edgy if it makes a difference.

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Old February 22nd, 2007   #2
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Re: fsck died with exit status 4

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Old February 22nd, 2007   #3
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Re: fsck died with exit status 4

anyone?

I'd really like to figure this out without having to reinstall.

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Old February 22nd, 2007   #4
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Re: fsck died with exit status 4

if this helps here is some more info:

when It drops me into the maintenance shell, and I run an fsck, I get the following

Code:
fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve 'UUID=4939f784-fbf9-40e5-9040-530412461665'
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Old February 23rd, 2007   #5
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Re: fsck died with exit status 4

guess I'll just have to reinstall... again
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Old February 23rd, 2007   #6
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Re: fsck died with exit status 4 [FIXED]

I fixed it.

Ran LiveCD

Ran fsck with auto fixing and verbose mode.

Restarted... worked like a charm.

Hope this may help someone else out there.
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Old February 23rd, 2007   #7
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Well done! I had been watching a bit, but there was nothing I could do as I'm just a Novice. I've only heard recently that the fs....thingy happens auto' after 30 times? Anyway, glad to see you got yourself sorted. Chow!
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Re: fsck died with exit status 4

To decide if you want fsck or not:
Code:
sudo gedit /etc/default/rcS
Now change the FSCKFIX line to the following:

Quote:
FSCKFIX=yes or no if you don't want it to run
To decide how often you want check disk:
Code:
sudo tune2fs -c 50 /dev/hdax
- change the 50 value to whatever
- change the x to whatever you get running sudo fdisk -l
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Old February 23rd, 2007   #9
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Re: fsck died with exit status 4

rubbsdecvik:

I awoke this morning to find the very same message on (Edgy). boot: ¨fsck died with exit status 4¨

Thanks for persevering with your question and thanks also for coming back with your solution of using a live CD. Now where did I put my live CD?

I, too, don´t want to have to reinstall, so I´ĺl have a go and report back.
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Old February 23rd, 2007   #10
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Re: fsck died with exit status 4

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thanks also for coming back with your solution of using a live CD
The way I figured it out was by trying to resize my partition. I was going to install onto another partition, so I could try to recover my files.

When QParted ran, it automatically ran fsck with three options. right now I can only remember that two of them were -y and -f. The other I can't remember.

What happened was that when I tried to resize my partition, it kicked back an error. I read the log, and it fixed many of my broken blocks.

It wouldn't work under the maintenance shell, but the LiveCD would do it.

Hope that helps!

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