[Solved (initscripts-splash plroblem)] Filesystem check failed

juan_sck · 2008-10-12 13:20:36

Hello, my arch i686 sudently doesn't boot.
At system start, after loading kernel, the boot process stops and says "FILESYSTEM CHECK FAILED" give root password for maintenance or control+D for restart.
My root partition (dev/sda2) is reiserfs formated, and arch updated this week.

After reading a while I booted with Arch install CD and tried the follwing:

fsck.reiserfs --check /dev/sda2
fsck.reiserfs --fix-fixable /dev/sda2
fsck.reiserfs --rebuild-sb /dev/sda2
fsck.reiserfs --clean-attributes /dev/sda2

But no errors were found or fixed, so I can't boot arch yet.

Are there any other way to fix the filesystem?
can filesystem check be skipped?

please help

Last edited by juan_sck (2008-10-13 11:09:17)

Mektub · 2008-10-12 14:03:08

Could it be that it is anoter partition that is giving trouble ? Ot do you only have /dev/sda2 ?

Or start in sinle-user. At the grub boot menu, select the option that lets you edit the kernel parameters.
Add either a '1' or 'single' to the end of the kernel parameters, then continue booting up.

Mektub

pointone · 2008-10-12 14:33:52

There should be a more descriptive error message above where it says "filesystem check failed" describing WHY the fsck failed.

iDeJ · 2008-10-12 16:56:39

i had a similar problem after the last pacman -Syu, basicly the bootsplash-initscripts are not compatible with latest udev

maybe it helps
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56604

Ub1476 · 2008-10-12 21:25:42

Hi, I have the same problem. I think at least. Here's my story:

After I installed Arch, ethernet did not work. So I downloaded kernel .27, copied it to another HDD, which I later mounted in Arch and installed using packman --upgrade /.../... . That works fine, ethernet works. Next I do a -Syu, it downloads all packages, but can't install them because "klibc" or something is already in /something/. Whatever I think and install X and the intel driver. Then I try to start X and it freezes, I hard reboot and it does a check.. and fails.

Well, I'm trying to follow your instructions iDeJ. First of all, do I have to remove bootsplash? What package is that? Second, when you say boot Arch, do you mean a live cd? Cause I see no way to access a command line from my current Arch.. Well, I tried a live cd and mounted using the command from Arch, then install initscripts, however it's not found by packman. I guess it's because I did something wrong with the mounting/live cd.

Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Mektub · 2008-10-12 21:47:02

That works fine, ethernet works. Next I do a -Syu, it downloads all packages, but can't install them because "klibc" or something is already in /something/.

Solve by reading:

http://www.archlinux.org/news/411/

Mektub

juan_sck · 2008-10-13 11:07:27

Mektub wrote:

Could it be that it is anoter partition that is giving trouble ? Ot do you only have /dev/sda2 ?
Or start in sinle-user. At the grub boot menu, select the option that lets you edit the kernel parameters.
Add either a '1' or 'single' to the end of the kernel parameters, then continue booting up.
Mektub

of course I know where I installled Arch.

pointone wrote:

There should be a more descriptive error message above where it says "filesystem check failed" describing WHY the fsck failed.

No, just system check failed. Even more, my filesystem was perfectly, it was a problem with initscripts-splash

iDeJ wrote:

i had a similar problem after the last pacman -Syu, basicly the bootsplash-initscripts are not compatible with latest udev
maybe it helps
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56604

I don't think installing a year old initscripts package would solve it, but you were very helpful.

Finally I could solve it with the recovery console:
After the error message I typed root password to log in, then remounted root partition for r/w:

mount -n -o remount,rw /

Finally I had to remove the package initscripts-splash and install initscripts form core.

ifconfig eth0 up
dhcpcd eth0
pacman -Syu
pacman -Rs initscripts-splash
pacman -S initscripts
exit

**You should make a backup of rc.conf before installing initscripts, because installing initscrips will overwrite it (and a few other files i hadn't modified), and pacman was supoussed to back it up, but it didn't

thanks for your help.

Arch Linux

#1 2008-10-12 13:20:36

[Solved (initscripts-splash plroblem)] Filesystem check failed

#2 2008-10-12 14:03:08

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