Sudden boot issues

[audifanatic518]

Hi,

I upgraded to Beefy Miracle a few days ago using preupgrade, had no problems other than one it seemed, which surfaced very recently. That is, it wouldn't go into sleep mode when I shut the laptop lid. Anyway, my laptop completely ran out of battery today on a long car ride and I recently got to the hotel and went to start up my computer on the linux portion. It seemed to start up fine, and then in the middle of the loading screen, I got the following screen and I am completely lost, no idea what to do. anybody give me any pointers? Thanks!

[greno]

Time to hit the rescue disks.

Boot a rescue CD and try to mount your root filesystem device and run fsck.

If that doesn't work then maybe you have a bad drive.

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[stevea]

Whaaaa ? There is NO INDICATION of a bad drive.
It looks like the filesystem was borked when it crashed.
No need to boot anything else.

You should do exactly what it tells you to do - login as root and run fsck on the volume without the -a or -p options.
Don't do it until you have the laptop plugged in.
Maybe like .... fsck /dev/mapper/_Fedora-16-x86_6 # I'm not sure of the partition.

[audifanatic518]

Originally Posted by stevea

Whaaaa ? There is NO INDICATION of a bad drive.
It looks like the filesystem was borked when it crashed.
No need to boot anything else.

You should do exactly what it tells you to do - login as root and run fsck on the volume without the -a or -p options.
Don't do it until you have the laptop plugged in.
Maybe like .... fsck /dev/mapper/_Fedora-16-x86_6 # I'm not sure of the partition.

Can't log in as root. it tells me that the command wa snot found when I use su or sudo.

[sea]

You're in emergency mode aka runlevel 1.
The # indicates that you have root access.

[Iron_Mike]

Type in "touch /forcefsck and reboot. This will force a full filesystem check.

[audifanatic518]

Originally Posted by Iron_Mike

Type in "touch /forcefsck and reboot. This will force a full filesystem check.

tells me that the command touch is not found when entering touch alone. when typing the entire line you gvae me, it tells me that the directory is not found.

on a side note, I downloaded a LiveUSB, anyway I can do a repair with that? Thanks

[Iron_Mike]

You have to be "root" and there is a space, "touch space /forcefsck

[sea]

He's at: dracut:#
AFAIK: There is no /bin or /sbin or /usr/*.bin

Whats the output of

which fsck

[audifanatic518]

Originally Posted by Iron_Mike

You have to be "root" and there is a space, "touch space /forcefsck

yes, I know. I did it with the space. that shouldn't be the problem. And as I said earlier, I cannot seem to log in as root. As someone else said, I'm already root.

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Originally Posted by sea

He's at: dracut:#
AFAIK: There is no /bin or /sbin or /usr/*.bin

Whats the output of

which fsck

Command not found, as shown below:

[secipolla]

I think if you type help it will give all its built-in commands.

[audifanatic518]

Originally Posted by secipolla

I think if you type help it will give all its built-in commands.

nope, tried that earlier as well. again, command not found

[manuel19]

execute:

fsck -y

That will repair the system automatically for you.

[audifanatic518]

Originally Posted by manuel19

execute:

fsck -y

That will repair the system automatically for you.

nope, just gives me a version number for fsck and then asks for another command.

[secipolla]

You could try as IronMike suggested.
Boot your USB stick or live-CD and if you can mount your root partition create a file forcefsck right at the root of the filesystem, then reboot.

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Please check here http://www.unix.com/man-page/All/8/fsck/