Problem when doing Reboot from "System" Menu in Gnome
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Distribution: Debian AMD64, Windows XP, Windows Vista
Posts: 9
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Problem when doing Reboot from "System" Menu in Gnome
For some reason the system gives me a message:
Code:
System is restarting, please wait...
Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue):
Not exact look, but all the text is there. I get no errors, if I do Control-D it just repeats the message, if I enter my root password, it gives me the shell, and from there I can type "reboot" to reboot the system without any further messages. It's really annoying and I can't find any error in the logs. Any help would be appreciated.
You need to run a fsck on your hard drive. The command to issue is listed in the message it gives. It is possible that you might have to re-install but try checking the file system first.
Distribution: Debian AMD64, Windows XP, Windows Vista
Posts: 9
Original Poster
Rep:
I don't think you understand, the computer is working perfectly, I only get this message when I attempt to restart the computer from the gnome start panel. This has nothing to do with fsck. And in case you still aren't' convinced, I have already run fsck to ensure that it was not. The quoted msg in the first post the only message given, as I said I get no errors, it just drops gdm, and shows up in the console with that message. I enter my root password and manually reboot once again, and the computer reboots. Once again, this error is not related to fsck, the message may be similar, but I only get this error when I REBOOT the computer, not during the boot process, the partitions are perfectly fine and have no errors.
You need to run a fsck on your hard drive. The command to issue is listed in the message it gives. It is possible that you might have to re-install but try checking the file system first.
How exactly did you come to that conclusion? What command is mentioned?
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