<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hello Graeme and many thanks for your speedy reply to my cry for help!<br><br>I decided to upgrade to Gutsy Gibbon after all, as it seemed an ideal opportunity to do it, but I have also taken the precaution of printing out your advice and adding it to my growing file of Linux Tips should I have any similar problems in the future.<br><br>Thank you again for your help and I hope to meet you in person at the next LUG meeting.<br><br>Bob.<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Graeme Fowler <graeme@graemef.net><br>To: nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 12:40:24 AM<br>Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Trouble
with Feisty Fawn - can anyone help?<br><br>On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 11:37 -0800, Bob Marshall wrote:<br>> /dev/sdb1:UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; <br>> fsck died with exit status 4<br><br><br>The exit code returned by fsck is the sum of the following conditions:<br> 0 - No errors<br> 1 - File system errors corrected<br> 2 - System should be rebooted<br> 4 - File system errors left uncorrected<br> 8 - Operational error<br> 16 - Usage or syntax error<br> 32 - Fsck canceled by user request<br> 128 - Shared library error<br><br>So yours is 4, which means maintenance or rescue mode should fix it.<br>When it says "Enter root password for maintenance mode" (or whatever<br>Ubuntu says), try the following:<br><br>fsck -C -y /dev/sdb1<br><br>Do this until it exits with no errors
or fixing whatsoever, hit CTRL-D<br>and wait for the system to reboot. It *should* - but might not - fix
it.<br><br>Alternatively, if you can get to it from a rescue CD, do the same thing<br>there.<br><br>Graeme<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Nottingham mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk" href="mailto:Nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk">Nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br><a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/nottingham" target="_blank">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/nottingham</a><br></div><br></div></div><br>
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