Issue with loggin when requested to do file check

[VictorWarner]

On rebooting Kubuntu displays a message that it is carrying out a file system check of one of the drives/partitions.

This fails for some reason and I am dropped to a text screen with the following message:

A manual filessytem check (fsck) of the root filesystem failed

A manual fsck must be performed [...]
The fsck should be performed in maintenance mode [...]

A maintenance mode will now be started.

After performing the system maintenance press control D

[...]

Give the root password for maintenance 
(or type Control-D to continue)

Typing the only password I have set for kubuntu provides message to state that it is incorrect.

Other than typing Control-D there is nothing else I seem to be able to do at this point.

Help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Victor Warner.

[dibl]

Re: Issue with loggin when requested to do file check

That's TWO bad things in one little post!

Can you boot into "recovery mode"? If so, do that. At the # prompt, enter

fsck /dev/sdx

with "x" being the partition where your filesystem is.

Let's fix the filesystem before dealing with the password issue -- if you lose your filesystem, the password won't matter anymore .....

[VictorWarner]

Re: Issue with loggin when requested to do file check

Dibl,

Thank you for the information. When I boot into the recovery mode I still asked for my root password in the way described in my original post.

Other help or suggestions would be very grateful received.

Victor Warner.

[VictorWarner]

Re: Issue with loggin when requested to do file check

bump

[dibl]

Re: Issue with loggin when requested to do file check

Bummer!

If it were ONLY the filesystem corruption, or ONLY the password issue, I would think it might be worth attempting to fix it. But with both those problems, it seems like something has gone very wrong with your system, and you will probably be better off to install and configure a new system. I think those two problems represent two different aspects of something that broke in your system -- I don't know how that happened. That's my opinion.

If you have valuable data on that system that you need, boot a Live CD and (with a USB stick or by mounting other available partitions) it will be possible to copy the data off, prior to installing a new Kubuntu system. I'll help you do that if needed.

Given the filesystem problem, I would think it advisable to format the partition, prior to reinstalling. I recommend ext3 filesystem type.