Hi Just a while back i got an error while booting up.
I tried to note down the entire error message was but have missed parts of it - what i have is here There was a message gdm failed to load because of some ??? Its related to my /dev/sda7 partition which happens to be my root section Further it seems that my /tmp had become write only and logs could not be written to this section. so i ran fsck from the root terminal that popped up after all the error messages Anyway some of the error message that i wrote down were Unexpected inconsistency , run fsck without -a -p, manually after which i got a whole lots of questions entry linc-6d75-0-12bf 7c 998e14a in /tmp/orbit-ram (73388) has deleted unused inode 74681 fix (y) Block bitmap difference (216067 - 216073) etc etc Fix (Y) free block count wrong from group 6# (4519 counted = 4528) fix (Y) above message came for blocks 9 and 10 similar messages about Directories Count etc all fixed at the end it said in caps "FILE SYSTEM MODIFIED" then on trying to reboot it got stuck with messages in red "Failed to load authorization key /root/.plse-cookie read only file system" /tmp read only file system It then came back to a blue screen with a long message again saying GDM failed to start x server - so panicking i tried to switch to a different terminal and reboot which i did with sudo shutdown -r now and it rebooted back normally. *** So what could have happened and where can i find the error logs / startup logs if any what diagnostics can i fun *** I let Ubuntu run its automatic fsck every once in a way which it does Recently installed kde but have not changed my desktop manager from gdm to kdm (as yet) *** would be grateful for advice thanks ram -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
