I seem to have gotten myself into a pickle, and cannot troubleshoot my
way out. It seems to have happened after I shutdown (properly) in order
to clean up the rat's nest of wires and power cords behind my desk.
After replugging everything in, and doublechecking that it is all
plugged in correctly, my box booted up OK but KDE wouldn't start. Like a
dipsh__ I didn't write all the errors down, but I remember one said that
KDE couldn't start because /home/cam wasn't writable. The permissions
for /home/cam are "drwxr-xr-x", the same as my laptop (on which I am
typing now). So I rebooted just to see if it would fly right---same
thing. Rebooted to see if I could start Gnome, and now it won't complete
the boot process. This is what I get:
"Checking root filesystem
/dev/hdb7: clean, 159739/4676672 files, 1382957/9347814 blocks [OK]
Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode: [OK]
Activating swap partitions: [OK]
Checking filesystems
/dev/hdb1: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in
short read while reading block 269
/dev/hdb1: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in
short read reading journal superblock
fsck.ext3: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in
short read while checking ext3 journal for /dev/hdb1
/dev/hdb6: clean, 6787/5160960 files, 1723631/10319746 blocks
Failed to check filesystem. Do you want to repair the errors? (Y/N)"
I dual boot with WinXP on hda and Mandriva 10.2 on hdb.
/dev/hdb1 is /boot
/dev/hdb6 is /home
/dev/hdb7 is /root
These are some of my checks:
(Repair filesystem) 1 # mount
/dev/hdb7 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
(Repair filesystem) 2 # cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hdb7 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hdb6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto
umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount
dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sunc,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0
I've looked at /etc/lilo.conf and can see nothing amiss there. I've
tried mounting /dev/hdb1, /dev/hdb6 and /dev/hdb7 to no avail. I've
booted to Knoppix 3.9 but I'm not sure what to do with it.
I seem to be lost in the pickle jar. Can anyone see a way out?
I can provide any info I've left out, please ask!
TIA Cameron
Registered Linux User (don't remember the number,
388somethin',somethin',somethin')
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