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    Exclamation [SOLVED!] Unable to mount filesystem. (Help, please)

    It seems, every Monday and Thursday, my Dell Mini 10 with Ubuntu 9.10 (32bit) crashes. The desktop slows to a crawl, applications stop working, and the system powers off. When I try to turn it on, I get past the Circle of Friends symbol, and then I get a terminal that says,

    "Mount of filesystem failed. A maintenance shell will now be started. CONTROL-D will terminate this shell and retry. -standard root terminal information here-"

    When I hit CONTROL-D, I get this message.

    "mountall start/starting
    fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16
    swapon: /dev/disk/by-uuid/57c101a9-887a-45ea(bunch more random jumble): swapon failed: Device or resource busy.
    Mountall: swapon (Same string, this time with a [799] at the end.) terminated with status 255
    mountall: problem activating swap. (string of numbers/letters. Still the same.)
    /dev/sda1 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
    /dev/sda1: Inodes that were a part of a corrupted orphan list found.

    /dev/sda1: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
    (i.e., without -a or -p options)
    mountall: fsck / [797] terminated with status 4
    mountall: Filesystem has errors: /
    init: mountall main process (793) terminated with status 3
    Mount of filesystem failed.
    A maintenance shell will now be started.
    CONTROL-D will terminate this shell and re-try.
    root@jared-laptop:~#"

    If the string is important, I'll post it here. If not, that's fine.

    I'm on a Dell Mini 10 Netbook, running Ubuntu Desktop Edition 9.10, 32bit. This doesn't happen when I install software, it seems... It just does it randomly. Before it happens, my desktop lags and shuts down... But there's no Kernel Panic.

    If you can help, I thank you. And if you can't help, but think you know why this keeps happening, please tell me.

    -Ericson

    EDIT: SOLVED: I can't thank you enough. My system's back up and running, chugging along like it normally is. And in doing this, I've learned some useful skills. Again, I can't thank you enough.
    Last edited by Woolio1; February 10th, 2010 at 12:56 AM.

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    Re: Unable to mount filesystem. (Help, please)

    Yes I know what this is.
    Basically it's trying to mount a disk that is busy because a filesystem check (fsck) was needed.

    You can bypass this by mounting the disks in a live CD and altering the /etc/fstab file (NOT the one on the live CD, it will probably be /media/sda1/etc/fstab or similar).
    Change the last digit on the line which is giving you problems to a zero to skip checks on mount.

    If you want more info on it, I wrote an article a few days back:
    http://www.digit4l.net/2010/02/fixin...-boot-problem/

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    Re: Unable to mount filesystem. (Help, please)

    Sorry if I sound stupid, but how would I go about opening it in nano? Every time I try, I get a blank nano window...

    EDIT: Never mind, I found it.
    Last edited by Woolio1; February 10th, 2010 at 12:51 AM.

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    Re: Unable to mount filesystem. (Help, please)

    Quote Originally Posted by Woolio1 View Post
    Sorry if I sound stupid, but how would I go about opening it in nano? Every time I try, I get a blank nano window...
    I think you need to verify the path.
    Code:
    nano /media/sda1/etc/fstab
    also gives me an empty nano. But that's normal since the file doesn't exist for me.

    Did you boot from a live-CD and mount your harddisk as Richard1979 suggested?

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    Re: Unable to mount filesystem. (Help, please)

    I wouldn't go saying it's solved just yet.
    mine has done it 2 times in 24hrs. and fsck finds all kinds of errors...stuff I didn't cause. I was just browsing the net etc and all of a sudden weird things started happening. such as menu's have no words only a bunch of 0000000.
    the system crashed...you don't get a blue screen of death, instead you get....nothing.

    I'm currently giving up and trying something else. fedora..has way to many bugs still. it was nothing but errors from the second it started. kubuntu I don't like it's layout etc, when suse is done, I get to test it for a few days.
    but so far none of these systems are living up to the hype.
    Last edited by serpentracer; February 10th, 2010 at 01:57 AM.

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    Re: Unable to mount filesystem. (Help, please)

    Quote Originally Posted by serpentracer View Post
    I wouldn't go saying it's solved just yet.
    mine has done it 2 times in 24hrs. and fsck finds all kinds of errors...stuff I didn't cause. I was just browsing the net etc and all of a sudden weird things started happening. such as menu's have no words only a bunch of 0000000.
    the system crashed...you don't get a blue screen of death, instead you get....nothing.

    I'm currently giving up and trying something else. fedora..has way to many bugs still. it was nothing but errors from the second it started. kubuntu I don't like it's layout etc, when suse is done, I get to test it for a few days.
    but so far none of these systems are living up to the hype.
    It just means Woolio1 solved his problem. Besides, you should never believe a hype.

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    Re: Unable to mount filesystem. (Help, please)

    Quote Originally Posted by serpentracer View Post
    I wouldn't go saying it's solved just yet.
    mine has done it 2 times in 24hrs. and fsck finds all kinds of errors...stuff I didn't cause. I was just browsing the net etc and all of a sudden weird things started happening. such as menu's have no words only a bunch of 0000000.
    the system crashed...you don't get a blue screen of death, instead you get....nothing.

    I'm currently giving up and trying something else. fedora..has way to many bugs still. it was nothing but errors from the second it started. kubuntu I don't like it's layout etc, when suse is done, I get to test it for a few days.
    but so far none of these systems are living up to the hype.
    Umm... I'm pretty sure none of that's happened to me. My issue is solved. Perhaps yours isn't.

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    Re: Unable to mount filesystem. (Help, please)

    Quote Originally Posted by serpentracer View Post
    I wouldn't go saying it's solved just yet.
    mine has done it 2 times in 24hrs. and fsck finds all kinds of errors...stuff I didn't cause. I was just browsing the net etc and all of a sudden weird things started happening. such as menu's have no words only a bunch of 0000000.
    the system crashed...you don't get a blue screen of death, instead you get....nothing.

    I'm currently giving up and trying something else. fedora..has way to many bugs still. it was nothing but errors from the second it started. kubuntu I don't like it's layout etc, when suse is done, I get to test it for a few days.
    but so far none of these systems are living up to the hype.
    Using ext4?
    I had serious issues under ext4, moving to the (very stable) ext3 solved several problems I had with dodgy icons.
    http://www.digit4l.net/ - news, tech, gaming and commentary

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    Re: Unable to mount filesystem. (Help, please)

    Quote Originally Posted by Woolio1 View Post
    Sorry if I sound stupid, but how would I go about opening it in nano? Every time I try, I get a blank nano window...

    EDIT: Never mind, I found it.
    I'm dealing with the same issue and have followed the steps exactly up to this point and get a blank nano window as well. What was the trick here?

    I booted from the live CD and mounted my partition with the disk manager...

    EDIT: I think I figured it out, I had to replace the full partition name in place of sda1, right?
    Typing sudo nano /media/d7bff.../etc/fstab brought up the file.
    Then I made the change described (deleting the last "1" in the partition and putting in "0" and exited nano and saving the modified file...

    EDIT2: It worked! thanks for this post!
    Last edited by chrispomeroy; February 22nd, 2010 at 05:36 AM.

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    Re: Unable to mount filesystem. (Help, please)

    Quote Originally Posted by chrispomeroy View Post
    I'm dealing with the same issue and have followed the steps exactly up to this point and get a blank nano window as well. What was the trick here?

    I booted from the live CD and mounted my partition with the disk manager...

    EDIT: I think I figured it out, I had to replace the full partition name in place of sda1, right?
    Typing sudo nano /media/d7bff.../etc/fstab brought up the file.
    Then I made the change described (deleting the last "1" in the partition and putting in "0" and exited nano and saving the modified file...

    EDIT2: It worked! thanks for this post!
    Congratulations and welcome to the forum

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