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Topic: Unplugging power broke it! (help)

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Jerramy

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Posted: April 28 2006,05:52

Things were working splendidly. I had installed DSL to the harddrive (hence the reason for posting here, as I don't know where else to post). I had grabbed the wine UCI file, and mounted that various times. Then run Avernum 3, Tibia, and various other windows games (all was going very well).

But then soon after I had recently started up my computer, the power cable yanked out by accident (I had yet to mount wine, or do much besides open firefox and sylpheed).

On plugging it in and rebooting, I got an error saying that "fsck failed, fix the problem manually, and reboot". Umm... fix what manually? Durrr... Being not familiar with the inticacies of how to fix Linux after screwing it up by yanking the cable, I just rebooted. Or tried rather. The damn thing wouldn't shut down! It kept saying that it couldn't lock .Xauthority .

So I pushed the big red button. It rebooted, seemed to work okay, X popped up, and I was online. Even downloaded a patch for a game I needed. Then I went to start up wine (or mount the UCI file rather) in order to install it and...

"Please mount media containing optional media and try again" pops up. Also, in the terminal window of emelfm, it says "/dev/cloop13: no such device" (actually it started at 8 or 9, but it increments every time I try...).

The stupid part is, my /opt directory is right there staring at me! It even managed to make the wine directory in it as usual, it's just that is empty.

I'm totally clueless what all this means, and how to fix it. Is there some file or directory somewhere I have to touch, or change permissions on, or erase or something? Or have I just hosed my system, so back up everything, reformat, and head back to the starting line?

Thanks in advance for help,
Jerramy

Jerramy

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Posted: April 28 2006,06:01

I saw this in a recent topic:

With a harddrive install you'd probably need to add boot options to your bootloader's config file. However, I think this is a bug that was fixed in DSL 2.3. From the 2.3 changelog:
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17. Fixed UCI loop counter during unmounts.

Looks similar. Perhaps this could fix my problem? (after reinstalling DSL, of course...) Rather, prevent this problem form occuring next time I trip over the damn power cord...

mikshaw

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Posted: April 28 2006,14:23

It sounds to me like you have two problems. One is the cloop bug, which was fixed it 2.3, and the other is a need to fsck your disk (don't worry...it sounds worse than it is =o)). Boot up a live CD and without mounting any drives run "sudo fsck /dev/hda1" (assuming /dev/hda1is the problem partition). This will hopefully fix your disk.

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lovdsl

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Posted: April 28 2006,15:59

not that this helps
I had a temp. power outage and when restored dsl booted with a similar error and then posted a prompt
dsl@console[dsl]$
I typed in: # mount -n -o remount,rw /
this gave the same prompt.
I typed in: sudo reboot
it rebooted to x ..all is well.

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