Realitycheck Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 This actually happened yesterday. I'm not entirely sure if it is the hard drive. I just wanted to get some feedback. This is some of what it spits out. I'm already shopping for a new computer. I thought about replacing the hard drive, but the integrity of the rest of the components is questionable. hda1 contains file system with errors, check forced duplicate or bad block in use multiply-claimed blocks in inode 508023: 1075028 1075028 2 multiply-claimed blocks unexpected inconsistency, run fsck manually fsck died with exit status 4 auto file system check of root failed manual fsck must be performed and computer must be re-started fsck should be done in maintenance mode with root filesystem mounted in read-only mode mainenance shell will now be started bash: no job control in this shell bash: groups: command not found bash: lesspipe: command not found bash: command: command not found bash: the: command not found bash: dircolors: command not found bash: command: command not found bash: the: command not found Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insane_alien Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 boot up a liveCD if you have one, fsck the disk. all should* be fine. *not guaranteed but theres a 90% chance you don't need to splash out on anything tips for the future: wait till its shut down PROPERLY before yanking the powercord(the most common cause of this error) buy a surge protector if you don't already have one don't lick electric eels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Realitycheck Posted February 6, 2008 Author Share Posted February 6, 2008 To do that, I would have had to buy a new DVD drive and probably a new hard drive (it had been making lots of suspect noises). I got a newer, improved p4 for a 100 bucks. Many thanks for craigslist. Now I have armored RIMM, a 1 MB cache, and a lot more than 8 gig hd, as well. Works so much better. For future reference, in linux, how do you shut it down when it is completely frozen? Is it supposed to time out after a few hours or something? One thing about Windows is that it has a much better ctrl-alt-del these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insane_alien Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 press ctrl-alt-F1 to drop to a terminal and login. type 'sudo reboot' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaynos Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 or if that fails log into the box using ssh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drochaid Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 or if that fails, connect a serial console... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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