i just wrote an e-mail to drake x about this problem. it happened to me
agin tonight. in my case (and i don't know if it's the same as yours), it
was the fstab file. get into the shell and emacs the fstab file. see what
it says. i have a hunch that that is your problem.
jd
>From: X Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....
>Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 09:32:51 -0700
>
>Thanks JD. I haven't quite decided what to do yet. I feel kind of like a
>guy who's house just got wiped out by a tornado, and still picking through
>the debris trying to figure out what the hell happened. What you said about
>not being able to mount in read/write mode reminds me of something I saw
>flash on the screen early in the boot process. I was paying extra close
>attention to everything at bootup after this happened, and so I'm not sure
>if it was new or not, but I saw something about read-only. It was only on
>the screen for like a split second. I'll try it again and see if I can
>catch anything more.
>
>
>At 03:25 PM 05/14/2000 +0000, you wrote:
>>i'm sorry you have to go. i had a similar problem, but my harddrive
>>wouldn't remount in read/write mode. so i basically had a harddirive that
>>i could only read off of. the only answer i could get where things like
>>edit the fstab file, etc. but i couldn't cause it was a read only
>>hd. finally after a week of spending a least 3 hours a day, i gave up and
>>reinstalled.
>>unfortunatly, that was about a month ago, and this weekend was the first
>>chance i've had to play around and set up mandrake. if you decide that
>>mandrake is worth one more try, great. but if you decide not, we're sorry
>>to lose ya.
>>good luck
>>jd
>>
>>
>>>From: X Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>Subject: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....
>>>Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 01:39:54 -0700
>>>
>>>I think I may finally be ready to throw in the towel on Linux. Everything
>>>is gone, and I wasn't even doing a damn thing other than browsing with
>>>Netscape. One 2nd everything was great, then for no apparent reason the
>>>browser went blank - nothing but a white screen - and it wouldn't close.
>>>So
>>>I went to use the Kill tool on it, but I couldn't because all the desktop
>>>icons had disappeared, leaving only black outlines of where they would
>>>normally be. I still wasn't overly concerned because this happens from
>>>time
>>>to time anyway. I tried to shutdown, but the shutdown message just came
>>>up
>>>and froze, along with everything else except the mouse. So I manually
>>>rebooted. The "not cleanly unmounted" errors came up, as they have been
>>>every time for the past couple months - it usually seems to just delay
>>>the
>>>boot process slightly. But then something different popped up:
>>>"/dev/hda5 contains a file system with errors, check forced. /dev/hda5:
>>>inode 43199 has illegal block(s)" and then:
>>>"/dev/hda5: Unexpected Inconsistency: run fsck manually (without -a or -p
>>>options)". Then in red, it says "[FAILED]", followed by: "An error
>>>occurred
>>>during the file system check dropping you to a shell. The system will
>>>reboot when you leave the shell. Give root password for maintenance or
>>>ctrl-D for normal startup". So I entered the root password, and it said,
>>>"BASH: ID: command not found". It repeated that bash message for about 5
>>>or
>>>6 lines. I tried the fsck, and then it said: "Parallelizing fsck version
>>>1.14...".
>>>
>>>I manually rebooted again, got the same results. Another time I tried the
>>>ctrl-D but it just rebooted back into the same thing. When it rebooted I
>>>saw something about "..cannot unlink..." and "..var/unlock file.." but it
>>>scrolled too fast to make out the whole message.
>>>
>>>It took a lot of time and effort over several months to get things to
>>>finally work right, and I still had work left to do. I had previously
>>>experimented with Slackware, which took forever just to get the basics
>>>setup, but then a couple of unexpected severe crashes requiring
>>>reinstallation finally sent me back out in search of something better.
>>>Mandrake seemed to be it, but this latest disaster has me pretty bummed
>>>with the whole thing. It seems like, although Linux may not crash
>>>everytime
>>>you turn around, the way Windows does, eventually it is going to crash,
>>>and
>>>crash HARD, and not necessarily for any obvious good reason. It's after 1
>>>AM and I've been struggling with this for several hours, so maybe I'll
>>>feel
>>>different tomorrow and do another reinstall if I have to. But right now
>>>I'm
>>>thinking maybe I might just look for some other OS, maybe FreeBSD or
>>>something. Don't get me wrong - Mandrake has been great, and it's
>>>definitely the best distribution of the 3 I've tried, but it just seems
>>>like there's some inherent unstableness of a different kind lurking in
>>>Linux in general. Maybe I've just been having a string of bad luck. I
>>>may
>>>still be a 'newbie' but this one came completely out of left field. The
>>>worst part of it - I was just about ready to start spending most of my
>>>time
>>>in Linux. I had just downloaded (not installed) a program that could do
>>>what one of my primary windows programs does, and I had just downloaded
>>>VMware (also not installed yet). But now here I am back in Windows full
>>>time it looks like. I can almost hear Bill laughing :-(
>>>
>>
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