This has happend a few time, and I've reinstalled kubuntu, but this keeps happening. For a while I can press control-d and it will boot into the gui, but afte a while it won't give me that option and will just reboot. The problem is that it won't exept my password. Maybe it has somthing to do with the sudo/root/user password stuff, I'm pretty green at this stuff, so I'm not sure. As far as I know I only have one password. I have it set up as a dvorak keyboard, has anyone heard of anyproblems with that? This is the message I get.

Thanks

/: unexpected inconsistency: run fdisk manualy.
(ie., without -a or -p options)

fsck failed. please repair manualy and reboot. Please note
that the root file system is currently mounted read-only. To remount
it read-write:
# mount -n -o remount,rw/

Control-d will exit from this shell and reboot the system.

Give root password for maintence
(or type Control-d to continue):

The password you need to enter is the root password.

However there is something just a liitle bit more wrong than that. I have had that error before, but I can't think why I had it. The only thing I am sure of is I reinstalled. From what I remeber the problem lies in the harddrive itself. Not certain, if I were you I would be googling that error message.

Goodluck with it.

i have the same problem using su/sux as a user. the password is just not accepted. but in tty, i have no problem logging in as root. i am using debian 3.5, and was not able to change my time/date settings as a user in kdm, as the same root password was not accepted.

would really appreciate it if some1 could give me some pointers. i have reinstalled 2x already. cheers