hi i am running kubuntu breezy 5.10
after a crash of a number of applications under kde i did a soft reboot
and these errors came up
(these come up after selecting the rescue option that comes at boot startup- i think they are more detailed than ones that are come up when i do a normal start up on boot)
I copied them down from the screen and have retyped them..so if there are spell/typo mistakes, please excuse.
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Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount
[4294675.50800] Attempting manual resume
[4294675.519000]swsusp: suspend partition has wrong signature?
Done.
[42944675.570000]EXT3-fs error (device hda9):ext3_check descriptors: Block bitmap for group 32 not in group (block 16877)!
[4294675.530000]EXT3-fs:group descriptors corrupted!
mount: Mounting /dev/hda9 on /root failed: invalid argument
Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom...
Done.
Done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom...
Done.
mount: Mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed: No such file or directory
mount: Mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory

Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init

BusyBox v1.00-preto (Debian 20040623-1ubuntu22) Built in shell (ash)
enter 'help' for a list of built in commands

/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
# " this is the prompt- this is where it stops"

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You need to repair your filesystems.
I'm assuming that your root drive is hda9, but I would do all of them:

# fsck /dev/hda9

Replace hda9 with whatever other partitions you may have, to ensure they will all come up correctly on boot.

You will need to do this with the live cd, by the way.

i dont have a live cd. and will a live cd of any othe distro do? what are other options? thank you.

i am having the same problem but i am running ubuntu 1:1.10.2-2ubuntu7 aka ubuntu 9.10and its also saying file system doesn't have /sbin/init. please help!