Re: Boot stops at fsck
On Sun, 17 May 2015, Victor Munoz wrote:
> On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 01:08:31PM -0400, Victor Munoz wrote:
> > Hi, everyone. Last night I updated a lot of files in my sid system,
> > and today morning I cannot boot. Actually, it hangs after announcing
> > it will run fsck. I know that the partition was scheduled to a
> > routine check after 32 times (I receive a message before shutdown
> > when that is about to occur), however today the system says that it
> > will run fsck because the system was not cleanly mounted (which I
> > do not understand, because I shutdown the system from the command
> > line last night, no power failure or similar abnormal situation).
> > Could this inconsistency be related to my problem?
> >
> > Anyway, is it possible to bypass the fsck at boot time? I am able to
> > reach the boot prompt by typing "c" at the boot menu, but beyond
> > that I don't know what to do. Googling has not helped me as it
> > leads me to other issues with grub and fsck which do not seem to
> > give me ideas I can apply to my problem.
> >
> > I think that if I can at least skip the check, I could do some work,
> > check the filesystem manually and try to go ahead somehow.
>
> Hi again. Now I've been able to skip the check, after learning that
> adding the fastboot option at the boot command works. Of course, I do
> not intend to avoid checks forever, so now the problem is that fsck
> does not do anything (or doesn't seem to). Some issue with fsck? With
> my filesystem? Any suggestion as to how to diagnose this?
Did you let fsck complete its check? Sometimes, it takes a while.
Depends on how big your partitions are. I'm guessing you stopped it
thinking the boot had frozen. Do the check manually. Use the -V
(verbose) option, so you can see what's happening.
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