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Old 05-02-2013, 03:53 AM   #1
Celzo
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Filesystem check or mount failed. fsck not helping


Hi,

For some reason, yesterday skype crashed with some I/O error and said to reinstall it. I did that and then my PC restarted showing following error at start

Quote:
Filesystem check or mount failed.
A maintenance shell will now be started.
CONTROL-D will terminate this shell and continue booting after re-trying filesystems. Any further errors will be ignored.
I ran fsck -f and it found few errors and fixed them. I tried hitting CONTROL-D then but everything I get immediately is the same message.
I then tried reboot and shutdown commands but PC would just hang at "shutting down processes" or something like that. If I reboot my PC over restart button I get the same message again.

I booted from Live cd now and I can normally see my partitions and hard drivers.
Here is the fdisk -l output.

Quote:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x077de6f1

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 100358054 50178996 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 100358055 312576704 106109325 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders, total 156301488 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000402ca

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 499711 248832 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 501758 156301311 77899777 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 501760 156301311 77899776 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/mapper/Voyager-root: 76.5 GB, 76546048000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9306 cylinders, total 149504000 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/mapper/Voyager-root doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/mapper/Voyager-swap_1: 3221 MB, 3221225472 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 391 cylinders, total 6291456 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/mapper/Voyager-swap_1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Here is the fstab output
Quote:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/mapper/Voyager-root / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /boot was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=5826e790-9944-4817-9e9c-3b14bf502149 /boot ext2 defaults 0 2
/dev/mapper/Voyager-swap_1 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
and here is the blkid output

Quote:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo blkid
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sda1: LABEL="Igre" UUID="1E2CFD042CFCD82B" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="Storage" UUID="B84C13C44C137BF6" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="5826e790-9944-4817-9e9c-3b14bf502149" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sdb5: UUID="2cgDDQ-CkWY-hAY9-ST3i-Su5m-bA1u-TDgWbf" TYPE="LVM2_member"
/dev/sr0: LABEL="Ubuntu 13.04 i386" TYPE="iso9660"
/dev/mapper/Voyager-root: UUID="c94261b0-82c6-4f2c-80c7-b53ba7c56680" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/mapper/Voyager-swap_1: UUID="96870738-8c2f-4e37-a751-d30bd1212c15" TYPE="swap"
Although I never touched fstab file. From googling around, I saw that almost everyone fixed it with running fsck but for some reason it doesn't work for me. Here are some images from disk utility on live cd.
http://www.pohrani.com/f/2o/Sv/Hh7Pc...m-2013-05-.png
http://www.pohrani.com/f/3m/vu/1C8mR...m-2013-05-.png
http://www.pohrani.com/f/47/5Y/3lUGj...m-2013-05-.png
http://www.pohrani.com/f/2G/KL/n8sVH...m-2013-05-.png

Also, everything is read only wwheter I boot from live cd or try recovery console.


I really don't understand what went wrong here. I never ever had problems like this... but it seems there's a first time for everything. And right at the wrong moment since I have exam tomorrow and I need my PC today :/

p.s.
I'm using latest version of kubuntu


edit:
some LVM info
Quote:
lvm> pvscan
PV /dev/sdb5 VG Voyager lvm2 [74,29 GiB / 0 free]
Total: 1 [74,29 GiB] / in use: 1 [74,29 GiB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ]
Quote:
lvm> vgscan
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
Found volume group "Voyager" using metadata type lvm2
lvm> lvscan
ACTIVE '/dev/Voyager/root' [71,29 GiB] inherit
ACTIVE '/dev/Voyager/swap_1' [3,00 GiB] inherit
Quote:
lvm> lvdisplay
--- Logical volume ---
LV Path /dev/Voyager/root
LV Name root
VG Name Voyager
LV UUID qq1qtw-VwQn-5Uwf-AF7O-HFa2-9sSO-PI469L
LV Write Access read/write
LV Creation host, time ,
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 71,29 GiB
Current LE 18250
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 252:0

--- Logical volume ---
LV Path /dev/Voyager/swap_1
LV Name swap_1
VG Name Voyager
LV UUID bjB2Ym-Zxbn-dbpB-G2ql-FQVD-G2XE-Tk1gAJ
LV Write Access read/write
LV Creation host, time ,
LV Status available
# open 0
LV Size 3,00 GiB
Current LE 768
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 252:1

lvm>
/proc/partitions

Quote:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name

7 0 775440 loop0
11 0 813056 sr0
8 0 156290904 sda
8 1 50178996 sda1
8 2 106109325 sda2
8 16 78150744 sdb
8 17 248832 sdb1
8 18 1 sdb2
8 21 77899776 sdb5
252 0 74752000 dm-0
252 1 3145728 dm-1

Last edited by Celzo; 05-02-2013 at 11:33 AM.
 
Old 05-02-2013, 08:57 PM   #2
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If fsck only found a few errors, and you can see ALL your disks from the rescue disk, it could be the 2nd option 'or mount failed.'
Have a look at /var/log/dmesg, /var/log/boot.log and see if its having problems with mounting, rather than corruption.

Possibilities include a slightly loose cxn. Cable connectors can work loose over time, due to heating and cooling during use/non-use.
Try reseating all connectors firmly.

Might(?) be a disk going bad, but seems unlikely if fsck didn't find much.
You could run some diagnostics http://linux.die.net/man/8/smartctl and also see the manufacturers website for more specific tools.

Last edited by chrism01; 05-02-2013 at 09:01 PM.
 
Old 05-03-2013, 01:43 AM   #3
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Since I needed my PC very badly, I simply reinstalled my OS
 
  


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