Ken Schneider wrote:
On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 08:19 -0500, Dom Incollingo wrote:
Hello,
I installed 9.3 on an HP ZD7000 laptop about a week ago. (I previously had 9.2 on the laptop for about 2 months with no problems.) Apart from several annoying problems with Gnome, 9.3 seemed to be working fine. This morning I tried to reboot the laptop. But the laptop will not boot. It gets midway through the boot process and it shuts itself off. I've tried booting the laptop 5 times, but the same thing happened each time. Before the boot process stops, I notice messages indicating that the "filesystem is not clean".
How can I diagnose/correct this problem? Is there a way to determine if this if my system got corrupted or if this is a hardware failure? If the system is corrupted, can I fix it without re-installing?
Boot to the install DVD/CD and use rescue mode. Run fsck on the faulty filesystem.
Thanks very much for the response. I ran 'fsck hda2' after booting into rescue mode. When fsck finished, it displayed the message "no corruption found", which I thought was odd. I was then able to boot normally into run level 5. But when I tried to copy some files (via the Gnome file manager), the system crashed again. I do recall that when I did the last YOU update, there were some Gnome file system changes. Is there anything else I can try? Thanks very much for your help.