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Xs1t0ry

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From: Canada

Registered: 2007-07-01

Posts: 181

ext3 file system error

I accidentally rebooted my computer while I was doing a system upgrade, pacman -Syu, in a different session. Now, when I restart it, neither the archlinux or archlinux fallback OS will work. It says that ext3 has errors and is read-only. I change this by typing

 mount -n -o remount,rw /

but I'm not sure what to do from there, since I'm not sure what the problem. I fear it might call for a fresh install--any thoughts?

ataraxia

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 1,553

Re: ext3 file system error

Did you try to fsck it? (Possibly repeatedly, until it's clean?)

fsck -yf /

Depending on what package it was installing when you rebooted, there may be other things going on - if you can figure out what package that was, I'd install it again.

Xs1t0ry

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From: Canada

Registered: 2007-07-01

Posts: 181

Re: ext3 file system error

I'm really not sure... it was maybe the 3rd package being installed as of 7 EST last night >.> I'll try the fsck and report back. Thanks

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: ext3 file system error

Look in your pacman.log (/var/log/pacman.log) the last listed package was being installed or just finished installing.

Xs1t0ry

Member

From: Canada

Registered: 2007-07-01

Posts: 181

Re: ext3 file system error

I don't believe it, but fsck -yf / actually worked the first time. Everything is normal and there is no damage or file corruption. Thank you, friend--you've saved me much trouble. It is funny how such a short tidbit of code can fix what appears to be a hopeless error.