[wellylug] Can't reboot: "cannot open /mnt/etc/fstab: no such file "

Adam Felix Bogacki afb at paradise.net.nz
Mon Oct 25 12:48:23 NZDT 2004


Hi, using Debian unstable I did an 'apt-get dist-upgrade --fix-missing' 
last night and on
booting this morning found login now had audio, and that the post-login 
screen had remembered
theme, font-sizes, and other details from my last session. So far so 
good - I was impressed.
But when I chose metacity as windows manager and deleted the first 
(config) screen
as normal after using it, things started going wrong.

I could not move or use the second gnome-terminal opened at login. It 
had no top
border, and clicking it did not give it focus meaning that I could not 
enter text.

After some effort I decided that I could not do anything with it and 
rebooted.
I don't like doing this but have found that the system can usually recover
after some time. In retrospect, maybe I should have logged out.

On reboot, the kernel loads normally, but them I get the following boot-log
message, followed by the iterated sequence ...
.......<snip>.....
hdb: irqtimeout: status=0xd0 {Busy}
ide0: reset: success
.......<snip>........

I'd be grateful for any constructive advice.

Adam Bogacki,
afb at paradise.net.nz

[Transcribed boot-log follows.]
[hda: is my WinXP drive]
.................................................................................................................................................... 

hda: DMA disabled
hdb: drive not ready for command
ide0: reset: success
blk: queue d732fa00, I/O limit

/scripts/ext3: add-journal.sh: 30: cannot open /mnt/etc/fstab: no such file
EXT-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly  filesystem
EXT-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery
hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 {Busy}

ide: reset: success
hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 {Busy}

ide: reset: success
hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 {Busy}

ide: reset: success
hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 {Busy}

ide: reset: success
hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 {Busy}






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