when i start up my linux program, its says

root system contains a file system with errors, check forced
and then it does % done and when it reaches 100% it says
"duplicate or bad block in use!
/Duplicate blocks found... invoking duplicate block passes.
Pass 1B: Rescan for duplicate/bad blocks"

then it goes and says
"duplicate/bad block(s) in inode 21613802" and says that like ten times and then goes throught a list and asks me for my root
password and i enter it and it it says
"(Repair Filesystem) 1 #_

and now it just stops

anyone, please? i am brand new to linux and i just loaded it last night, can you help?

You need to run fsck manually on the partition it found bad, e.g. if it is /dev/hda3 you would run "fsck /dev/hda3" at the repair filesystem prompt. If a manually fsck (fsck is kind of like scandisk in Linux) cannot fix the errors it looks like your filesystem has gone corrupt. Based on the error message, the most likely explanation is probably that you hard drive is on its way out.