I cannot for the life of me figure out what is going on here. Running Ubuntu 18 and accessing it through VM Ware Remote Console. After some trouble shooting while connected via SSH with Putty I decided to do a reboot. The putty console did not show all these error messages but it was acting very oddly. Running most commands would result in an Input/output error And df -h showed that sda1 was 100% full but that was odd too as it was listed as something like dev/sda1/UUID [some long number].

When I typed any sudo command I would get some cryptic error about not having permissions in samba directories????

Anyway so I thought I simply had a disk full error and perhaps the log directories were full and the VM had not been rebooted since March 2018 so I thought maybe running fsck might fix something but I could not type in any commands.

So I rebooted it and now I get a server denied error when trying to SSH in. I can still use the VM Ware remote console but this is all I see and I cannot type any commands.

Thoughts?

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The filesystem is thoroughly corrupted, I'd say. Since this is a virtual machine, I would have a look at the file on the hypervisor host that it resides on; perhaps that filesystem is full or the file has other issues.

I would try creating another VM, mounting that filesystem there and doing a manual fsck. Or boot the broken VM from a life DVDROM or into rescue mode (if this VM has a rescue mode), and again perform a manual fsck.

Thanks for your reply. Interestingly I can now only boot into Grub rescue and when I try to ls any of the options I get nothing found. I will try to boot the VM off an ISO and go from there. Otherwise I'll have to resort to just using a backup.

Just to close this thread. We had to resort to our backup system. Could not figure that one out...