On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org wrote:
For some reason there is a remnant of the old grub hanging around on
your system and occasionally your system is trying to boot from it.
You might diagnose the problem by running sudo bootinfoscript
On Jul 13, 2015 10:43 AM, Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org wrote:
For some reason there is a remnant of the old grub hanging around on
your system and occasionally your system is trying to boot from it.
You
More below
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org wrote:
Yes, this shows the system is using grub legacy and I am pretty sure that
is what is causing your boot problems. There is a
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org wrote:
On Jul 13, 2015 2:04 PM, Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org wrote:
Yes, this shows the system is using grub legacy and I am pretty sure
On 07/10/15 18:03, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
Well, it is at it again. Second boot of the day I got the same error I got
a 6 days ago: Error 16: Inconsistent file system structure. Press any key
to continue.
A key press gets me to the menu of OS versions. On choosing the usual
(12.04) I get
On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
Short of a new computer, any ideas?
Denis,
The hard drive is fine, which makes me wonder if the power supply is
getting flaky or a fan is not sufficiently cooling the CPU.
I've had 2 power supply failures, but so long ago I don't recall the
On 07/11/15 07:48, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
I was planning on running e2fsck on sda2 and sda5 later today. Here are
the results of your suggested commands:
parents@R2D4:~$ cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
80 488386584 sda
81 482809446 sda1
8
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 6:10 AM, Robert Citek robert.ci...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Jim Garrison j...@jhmg.net wrote:
On 7/10/2015 8:00 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
This time I used e2fsck -fvp /dev/sda1 from the Ubuntu 12.04 live
CD. No
errors found.
How is
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Jim Garrison j...@jhmg.net wrote:
On 7/10/2015 8:00 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
This time I used e2fsck -fvp /dev/sda1 from the Ubuntu 12.04 live CD. No
errors found.
How is your disk partitioned? /dev/sda1 may not be the
damaged partition.
To show us the
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Galen Seitz gal...@seitzassoc.com wrote:
On 07/11/15 07:48, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
I was planning on running e2fsck on sda2 and sda5 later today. Here are
the results of your suggested commands:
parents@R2D4:~$ cat /proc/partitions
major minor
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Denis Heidtmann
denis.heidtm...@gmail.com wrote:
If it is fans, it would have to be slow starting, since the failures have
always been on starting from a cold machine. That should be easy to
check. Cabling: Everything is inside the case, so there should be
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org wrote:
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Denis Heidtmann
denis.heidtm...@gmail.com wrote:
If it is fans, it would have to be slow starting, since the failures have
always been on starting from a cold machine. That should be
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org wrote:
Which version of grub are you using? What does
grub-probe -V
say?
It looks like an error message from the old legacy grub. It might be
having problems rebooting with the drives changing names between
reboots. If it is
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org wrote:
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org wrote:
Which version of grub are you using? What does
grub-probe -V
say?
It looks like an error message from the old legacy grub. It might be
having
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Denis Heidtmann
denis.heidtm...@gmail.com wrote:
Which version of grub are you using? What does
grub-probe -V
say?
It looks like an error message from the old legacy grub. It might be
having problems rebooting with the drives changing names between
They spin. Thanks for trying.
-Denis
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 6:20 PM, David dafr+p...@dafr.us wrote:
A shot in the dark, but what kind of drive are you using for your root
filesystem? I read recently about TRIM on SSD being broken in some
cases, so if you have traditional spinning platters
A shot in the dark, but what kind of drive are you using for your root
filesystem? I read recently about TRIM on SSD being broken in some
cases, so if you have traditional spinning platters this is going down
the wrong path.
david
On 07/10/2015 06:03 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
Well, it is
Well, it is at it again. Second boot of the day I got the same error I got
a 6 days ago: Error 16: Inconsistent file system structure. Press any key
to continue.
A key press gets me to the menu of OS versions. On choosing the usual
(12.04) I get partway into the Ubuntu startup, then a black
The memory check ran for 12 hours. 4 passes. No errors.
-Denis
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I ran sudo e2fsck -f /dev/sda1 . Up to this point, the system failed as I
described more severely when first starting, i.e., when it had been powered
off for a while. So I waited 'till this AM to power on after being off
overnight. I have detected no failures so far.
This novice's reading of
On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com
wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jul 2015, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
This novice's reading of man e2fsck makes me think that the command
e2fsck
-f /dev/sda1 does not do anything, unless checking a file system means
fixing a file system.
On Sun, 5 Jul 2015, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
This novice's reading of man e2fsck makes me think that the command e2fsck
-f /dev/sda1 does not do anything, unless checking a file system means
fixing a file system. In fact, if e2fsck -f does fix things what is the
purpose of the -p option?
On Sun, 5 Jul 2015, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
I agree with all you said, but it does not explain the observation that my
machine does not exhibit any issues since running e2fsck -f /dev/sda1.
(Lacking the -p means do not repair.) Time heals all ills?
Denis,
e2fsck fixed what ailed your
On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com
wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jul 2015, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
I agree with all you said, but it does not explain the observation that
my
machine does not exhibit any issues since running e2fsck -f /dev/sda1.
(Lacking the -p means
On Sun, 5 Jul 2015, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
Conclusion: errors gone due to e2fsck, due to passage of time, or errors
are not due to the disk. I do not see how choose among the three choices,
but since e2fsck reported no errors and was not told to prune, that is
low on my list.
Denis,
On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Galen Seitz gal...@seitzassoc.com wrote:
You may want to check your disk's health and run some tests using
smartctl.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/S.M.A.R.T.
galen
Galen,
I had looked the the SMART data yesterday--healthy.
Your link yields no
On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Galen Seitz gal...@seitzassoc.com
wrote:
You may want to check your disk's health and run some tests using
smartctl.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/S.M.A.R.T.
galen
Yesterday and today on starting I get errors such as:
Boot from (hd0,0) ext3 d7d8b1c0-f79.
Error 16: Inconsistent file system structure
press any key to continue...
key press presented list of boot options. I selected memtest. I got just
a flashing cursor.
Power off and restart produced:
Denis Heidtmann wrote:
Yesterday and today on starting I get errors such as:
Boot from (hd0,0) ext3 d7d8b1c0-f79.
Error 16: Inconsistent file system structure
press any key to continue...
key press presented list of boot options. I selected memtest. I got just
a flashing cursor.
Ken Stephens wrote:
Denis Heidtmann wrote:
Yesterday and today on starting I get errors such as:
Boot from (hd0,0) ext3 d7d8b1c0-f79.
Error 16: Inconsistent file system structure
press any key to continue...
key press presented list of boot options. I selected memtest. I got just
a
On Sat, 4 Jul 2015, Ken Stephens wrote:
Make that the fsck command.
More specifically, e2fsck checks and repairs ext2/ext3 file systems. I've
used it in the past and it does just what it says: checks and repairs.
You'll have time for dinner while it's working, but it will do the job.
Rich
On Sat, 4 Jul 2015, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
I am running sudo e2fsck -f /dev/sda1 I suppose I could interrupt it (if I
knew how) and add the v and p options. Certainly the -v is a no-brainer.
Denis,
Let 'er rip until done. Won't hurt anything. Can always try -fvp
afterwards.
Rich
On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Derek Loree d...@drloree.com wrote:
On Jul 4, 2015, at 3:51 PM, Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com
wrote:
As I said, I booted from a live CD and attempted to run fsck. It spends
zero time to respond that /dev/sda1 is clean.”
Check your partition
On Sat, 4 Jul 2015, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
As I said, I booted from a live CD and attempted to run fsck. It spends
zero time to respond that /dev/sda1 is clean.
Are there some options I should use when running fsck? I know when Ubuntu
runs automatically every so often on boot that it takes
Ah, the man page for e2fsck discloses the -f option--forces the check.
Thanks. Check in progress.
-Denis
On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com
wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jul 2015, Ken Stephens wrote:
Make that the fsck command.
More specifically, e2fsck checks
On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com
wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jul 2015, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
I am running sudo e2fsck -f /dev/sda1 I suppose I could interrupt it
(if I
knew how) and add the v and p options. Certainly the -v is a no-brainer.
Denis,
Let
On Sat, 4 Jul 2015, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
It completed. Nothing in the report indicates any errors. Maybe I need
to go on to sda2 and sda5?
Denis,
I would. Can't hurt anything to check all partitions while you're at it.
Try the verbose option (-v) with them and you'll see the number of
As I said, I booted from a live CD and attempted to run fsck. It spends
zero time to respond that /dev/sda1 is clean.
Are there some options I should use when running fsck? I know when Ubuntu
runs automatically every so often on boot that it takes a few minutes to
complete. Yet when I run
On Jul 4, 2015, at 3:51 PM, Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com wrote:
As I said, I booted from a live CD and attempted to run fsck. It spends
zero time to respond that /dev/sda1 is clean.”
Check your partition table with fdisk, cfdisk, or parted. It is possible the
partition table
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