Linux mint won't boot. Can get to terminal with ctrl-alt-f1 but don't know what to do.
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It says "mount: can't find all in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab"
it is
Code:
sudo mount -a
not mount all...
by the error message it is telling you that it cannot find ALL within fstab .. not that fstab is not there....
because mount all is like telling it to mount all, using the word "all" as a device address, not a switch, mount -a is what he meant to say. it means mount all, but written "mount -a".
I was playing a game with playonlinux that stopped responding. I couldn't click on anything so I did a hard reset. The Linux mint logo came up, then a black screen with just the mouse pointer was showing. I was able to open the terminal, but I don't really know what the problem is or how to fix it. I have searched the internet for various sokutions, but nothing seems to work.[
did this repeat itself when you tried playing that game again?
did you reboot your system? it is not working now at all because of it?
Quote:
The first think I tried was sudo apt-get update. This seems to fail. It's shows a bunch of lines that start with err then lines with w: failed to fetch then lists various things. It almost seems like the update can't connect to the internet to update anything. Can anyone help me get my computer usable again?
"failed to fetch" means something is wrong with your connection, bad internet connection, or your repo address is calling to a server that is down, or backed up or bad address to it, so it cannot connect to it, or your source list is malformed.
if you can get to a terminal within the system -- try removing the game, reboot, then see if it starts up proper like.
Okay, for some reason your posts weren't coming through until after I posted again. When I run the fstab command, it says command not found. After the computer froze and I rebooted it by holding down the power button, it has not booted back up. On the bright side, apt get update has started working again.
It seems like there is something wrong with cinnamon itself. It is saying that it is not found. What repair are you talking about? The hard drive seems to be working as I can access all of my files.
Okay just a quick update, I found something about reinstalling cinnamon, and it worked! I think it didn't work last time because I wasn't connected to my network for some reason, but it is now working! Thank you so much for your time
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