supreme smeg up

[markusmunch]

Ah well, looks like the honeymoon period is over with this particular distro. Restarted to day, having changed nothing and I cannot get further than the GDM "throbber" prior to the login. AFAIK there haven't been any updates installed since last stable working condition and I have changed only superficial theming and installed Thee's 2.20 version of GDM since installing Ultimate Edition a week or so ago (so no tinkering on my part! ) Will edit later with precise details of what shows when trying to boot. Understand that these details are sketchy but really keen to find out why this has happened before fresh install. Any help 'preciated muchly.

[dathem]

Hello, It is possible that nothing is wrong and that your computer system was doing a forced fsck; UBUNTU decided to remove the notification, so you have no idea at the time why the system looks like it froze or something like that. The computer will do this procedure every 30 boots, did you restart your system this many times? Depending on your computer and the size of the HD, it may take awhile to complete the fsck. Below is a recent HOW TO from JohnnyG. Yesterday I thought my computer was going down the tubes, but then it finished booting up and then I seen the post below from JohnnyG. Bingo mine did a fsck check at that startup but I couldn't tell since UBUNTU remove the notificiation! I know they wanted to speed up the boot process but I wonder how many people try to restart the computers when this happens??

How to check for next forced fsck

New postby JOHNNYG » Sun Jan 24, 2010 4:20 pm
Hey all ! you Know that sinking feeling you get when you fire up your rig and it gets so far and hangs, only to find that fsck is being forced !! Well here is a way to check and see how many boots till next forced fsck

Install showfsck in Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install showfsck

This will complete the installation

Using showfsck

If you want to see the number of reboots before next forced fsck using the following command

sudo showfsck

output looks similar to the following

15/30 mount(s) until fsck for /dev/disk/by-uuid/edadb298-aae6-4549-b5dc-55c6184fdbc4

[JOHNNYG]

Your system is more than likely doing a forced file system check, After so many boots this will happen, I find how many time you boot until this happens is about 20-40 boots, Drop to rescue mode in grub and as Ultimate goes through the "text" boot it will stop and you will see "drive has been mounted "X" amount of times fsck forced" and you will see a tumbling cursor at the bottom of the screen , Let that do its thing , when fsck has finished rescue GUI will pop-up "resume normal boot" let that do its thing, Your box should reboot , or, You might have to log in at command line, So login, Password then type sudo reboot ,and your good to go until next forced fsck about 20- 40 boot-ups !

[markusmunch]

Thanks so much for the speedy response peeps; doubtless the quickest I've ever had on any ubuntu forum I only wish I'd checked back on here before doing a clean install! Oh well, 60 mins tops and it's back how it should be Looks like the distro divorce lawyers won't be needed. Cheers again!

[dathem]

Hello, Your Welcome!! We are here to help, I am unemployed so I usually have plenty of free time to log on and check to see if I can help someone. I hope to start a new job next week, part time but a job at least. Oh well doing a clean install again isn't a bad thing if you encounter a problem and have no other options, but now you know, check here first and wait to see if someone comes to your aid. Which I am sure someone will, as there are people all over the world registered here and using Ultimate Edition!! Hope you continue to use and enjoy Ultimate Edition!!

[markusmunch]

Best of luck with your job interview, I know unemployment even better then I know fresh ubuntu reinstalls and unemployment definitely sucks more!
Brightest Blessings

[Clueless]

Oh well, 60 mins tops and it's back how it should be Looks like the distro divorce lawyers won't be needed. Cheers again!

Strange, I thought I answered this post. Seems to have dissapeared?? Maybe I didn't submit.
Only wanted to say; Hello markasmunch, me old china . As soon as I saw the thread subject I knew it to be another Brit.
Don't get a divorce yet! Stick with it, it's worth it.

[markusmunch]

Strange, I thought I answered this post. Seems to have dissapeared?? Maybe I didn't submit.
Only wanted to say; Hello markasmunch, me old china . As soon as I saw the thread subject I knew it to be another Brit.
Don't get a divorce yet! Stick with it, it's worth it.[/quote]

Watcha Clueless, which part of our benighted little island do you hail from?

[JOHNNYG]

Is it a LONG island !

[Clueless]

Is it a LONG island !

Well it seems quite long to us, wouldn't wanna walk it (though admittedly some have!) . But no, to an American it's rather small.

.....Watcha Clueless, which part of our benighted little island do you hail from?

Salisbury, Wiltshire. So I have to admit the Cockney slang was rather misplaced.