On December 5, 2024 11:38:50 PM EST, David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote:
On 12/5/24 18:03, nsrxnst wrote:
while I was at work, chaos happened in my house. my wife cleaned my office, and her nephew locked himself in there.
my Debian install has never been ideal: the GUI is spotty, but the underlying system has always functioned just fine, and to that extent, I have used it as a home server.
it was powered off when I got home.
upon selecting the appropriate option from grub, manually or automatically, it begins the boot process, displays errors too fast to comprehend, and the screen goes to a cursor, then black. repeated power button long-presses seem to be the only thing that brings it back to life, but only so long as I don't try to boot the installed os.
can someone help me troubleshoot this?
On 12/5/24 18:39, nsrxnst wrote:
aha.
booted a live USB. one of the partitions is now of type "swsuspend". my sleuthing has led me to decide it's a corrupted fs.
how do I go about recovering this???
Processor model? Memory size? SSD size?
What version of Debian was installed?
What services was it providing?
Can you log in to the machine from another computer via ssh(1)?
Do you have a recent image of the SSD?
Do you have a recent backup of the data?
What other computers, disks, etc., do you have available for trouble-shooting and repair?
David