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rieger

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From: Hilversum, The Netherlands

Registered: 2006-05-03

Posts: 18

"checking file systems failed", remount results in booting again

The other day my system totally hung (doing something with eclipse & grails). After waiting a while, I rebooted.
Of course filesystems wasn't unmounted cleanly so during boot I got the message from the subject.
Besides that the instruction to mount read/write again:

mount -n -o remount,rw /

However this command immediately is finished. Then typing exit should result in a reboot. However it displays briefly "device busy". So the remounting thing doesn't work.
No I cannot back into Arch anymore.

Am I doomed to use the XP boot option for ever?

ataraxia

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 1,553

Re: "checking file systems failed", remount results in booting again

You have to check your filesystem before you can use it again:

fsck -y /

Do it until it's clean, then reboot again.

edit: do this before remounting readwrite, or bad things will happen.

Last edited by ataraxia (2007-09-20 18:23:20)

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: "checking file systems failed", remount results in booting again

Firstly: use the sysrq key if possible, it's a lot safer than pushing the power button. More info.
Secondly: did you try booting a live cd and running fsck from there? That has saved me from such situations a couple of times already.

Last edited by Ramses de Norre (2007-09-20 18:19:26)

rieger

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From: Hilversum, The Netherlands

Registered: 2006-05-03

Posts: 18

Re: "checking file systems failed", remount results in booting again

thanks but:

I executed fsck.ext /dev/sda5 and it return with:
"SegmenationFault"

nothing more....

help

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: "checking file systems failed", remount results in booting again

thanks but:

I executed fsck.ext /dev/sda5 and it return with:
"SegmenationFault"

nothing more....

help

From a live cd? Try another live cd or reboot the computer, sometimes I get segfaults when something got wrong in my ram and a reboot fixes that.

rieger

Member

From: Hilversum, The Netherlands

Registered: 2006-05-03

Posts: 18

Re: "checking file systems failed", remount results in booting again

Hi,

now did the fsck with the live cd. It cleaned my sda5, sda7 was clean (although the system says to check that as well)
Trying to reboot normal; same problem. Now did the mount -n -o etc command, command returned without any message, rebooting -> same problem.