[hllug] Re: Update woes w/Kubuntu 11.10
- From: Lee Parmeter <geek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hllug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:19:10 -0500
On 10/27/2011 01:50 PM, Donald E. Crowder wrote:
> On 10/26/2011 11:34 PM, Don Crowder wrote:
>> The 64 bit HP I've been using with Kubuntu 11.10 is getting
>> progressively more buggy, crashing once or twice per day so I decided to
>> switch to a 32 bit Dell Dimension 4700. I already had Kubuntu 11.04
>> installed on the machine but decided to use the package manager to
>> upgrade to 11.10. After the upgrade it wouldn't boot up nor would it
>> boot from a regular Kubuntu 11.10 CD. This evening I downloaded the ISO
>> for the Kubuntu Alternate CD and used it to reinstall Kubuntu 11.10.
>> After the installation here's what happened.
>>
>> When I turn on the machine I see the text message inserted by my nVidia
>> graphics card, the Dell boot screen; then, about 20 seconds later,
>> everything blacks out and the boot sequence repeats from the nVidia
>> text. The second time around, after the Dell boot up screen, I get a
>> grub sceen. If I stay with the default selection...
>> "Ubuntu with Linux 3.0.0-12 generic"
>> ...the system reboots yet again and brings me back to the grub menu.
>>
>> The first time I scrolled down to the second choice on the grub screen...
>>
>> "Ubuntu with Linux 3.0.0-12 (recovery mode)"
>>
>> and, in the subsequent menu, selected...
>>
>> fsck: Check all file systems (will exit read-only mode)
>>
>> and got the following text on-screen:
>>
>> ---
>> fsck from util-linux 2.19.1
>>
>> [ 49.260838] Adding 1037308k swapon /dev/sda5: Priority:-1 extents:1
>> across:1037308k
>>
>> /dev/sda1: Superblock last mount time is in the future (by less than a
>> day, probably due to the hardware clock being incorrectly set) FIXED.
>>
>> 1/dev/sda1 ***** REBOOT LINUX *****
>>
>> /dev/sda1: 87069/9505536 blocks
>>
>> mountall: fsck/ [464] terminated with status 3
>>
>> mountall: System must be rebooted:/
>>
>> Finished, please press ENTER
>> ---
>>
>> ...and it booted up just fine when I pressed enter, however, the next
>> time I got exactly the same symptoms except I've learned that I don't
>> actually have to do the fsck anymore so the sequence is
>>
>> power-om, nVidia text, Dell boot screen, crash, nVidia text, Dell boot
>> screen, select recovery console at grub screen and, finally, select
>>
>> Resume Resume normal boot
>>
>> and it boots up just fine.
>>
>> My grub version is 1.99 (basically grub2) but I noticed that the grub is
>> listed in the repository. Is there any chance that switching to the
>> previous version of grub will fix this? I've checked the hardware clock
>> in the bios, it's within a couple of seconds of dead on. The install
>> always wants know if the hardware clock is set to GMT and I always tell
>> it no. Is there some chance that setting the clock for GMT will solve
>> this problem? [guess I should go ahead and try that - will do and get
>> back to you if it fixed it].
>
>
> Setting the hardware clock to GMT made no difference. :(
I suggest that you boot the machine with a LiveCD and run fsck from a root
terminal session. You could use your Kubuntu standard install CD, then when
up start a terminal session login as root using "sudo su". Then run fsck on
all Linux partitions. For example:
# fsck -fv /dev/sda1
Note: fsck is suppose to automaticly load the correct version like:
fsck.ext3 or fsck.ext4. You can call the correct one directly if you
know the type of Linux file system used.
If you think you have more than one Linux partition, you can use "fdisk -l"
to check and then run fsck on those as well.
--
Lee Parmeter
http://www.bubbasgeek.com
"When it comes to Vista: just say NO! If you're not ready for Linux, buy a
MAC!" - Lee Parmeter
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- Lee Parmeter
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