Machine hangs on startup

LDJ · 03-30-2007, 04:16 PM

I was happily updating my kubuntu system earlier this evening when it just hung. upon trying to reboot, the machine now will not load.
It gets as far as "SETTING UP CONSOLE FONT AND KEYMAP" and just sits there. all i can do then is hard-reset the machine.

Anything i can do to fix this?

nitrousoxide82 · 03-31-2007, 09:31 AM

You could try booting a Live-CD - Kubuntu itself or from a different distro such as Knoppix. If it works, there might be something wrong with your filesystem - fsck it.

LDJ · 03-31-2007, 10:04 AM

i can boot a live CD fine.
I booted up dreamlinux 2.2 but it wont let me mount the linux partition to check it. it just says:

"wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda3, missing codepage or other error"

even though it is the correct filesystem type (ext3)

JZL240I-U · 04-04-2007, 04:39 AM

The partition to check should not be mounted anyway. Just go ahead and run fschk.

LDJ · 04-14-2007, 05:55 AM

Well finally got around to running a fsck on the partition. it said it had been mounted 30 time without a check and forced the check, ran through without a problem (just used fsck /dev/sda3"), but when i reboot it hangs at the same spot

Any other ideas?

Thanks

LDJ · 04-14-2007, 06:08 AM

I notice when its booting its saying:

Checking root filesystem
fsck 1.40

/dev/sda4: superblock last mount time is in the future. FIXED
/dev/sda4: superblock last writetime is in the future. FIXED
/dev/sda4: clean, <some numbers etc> [ok]

Checking file systems... [ok]

Mounting local filesystems...
[17179587.668000] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems will be case sensitive!
*configuring network interfaces...
*setting up console font and keymap...

and it jsut sits there!

JZL240I-U · 04-16-2007, 01:19 AM

Boot from the live CD again. Make the harddisk(s) / partitions writable if necessary. Edit /etc/fstab so that only truly necessary partitions get mounted and retry. Maybe it is only that FAT problem and not your system per se. (At least one can hope

).

LDJ · 04-16-2007, 04:04 AM

Tried that this morning, leaving only the swap partition and CDROM in the fstab and it did exactly the same

thanks though for all the suggestions thus far..........

JZL240I-U · 04-16-2007, 04:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LDJ

Tried that this morning, leaving only the swap partition and CDROM in the fstab and it did exactly the same

...

Wait a moment. Your machine does that too when booting from CD? Because "...leaving only the swap partition and CDROM in the fstab..." is no bootable system on the harddisk. What did you really do

?

LDJ · 04-16-2007, 04:34 AM

Sorry, No, it boots fine from a livecd. I booted into a live CD and edited the fstab on the partition that iwll not boot. removed my Windows partition and 'shared' FAT partition from the table to see if either of those were causing the problem but it still will not boot.

JZL240I-U · 04-16-2007, 08:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LDJ

... /dev/sda4: superblock last mount time is in the future. FIXED...

Did you check the system time and date?

You might try to boot from CD, make the hard disk writable and run some program to configure X. AFAIR keymap and console fonts are organized in xorg.conf...

LDJ · 04-16-2007, 02:07 PM

i ran xconf and over-wrote my old xorg.conf file with the newly generated file but the same problem remains.

JZL240I-U · 04-17-2007, 01:21 AM

Well, I used google/linux and searched for "superblock last mount time is in the future". Right the first hit is this: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/1948 referring to that: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/pipe...ry/058756.html May be of some relevance here too...