Cameron MacDonald wrote: > 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 > > The first thing I would do is open up the box, and double check the cables. It is possible that in moving things around, the IDE cable is not loger seated properly...
You can also try booting with Knoppix, and then run: e2fsck -fp /dev/hdb1 e2fsck -fp /dev/hdb6 e2fsck -fp /dev/hdb7 Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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