On 10/20/18 11:05 AM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
1. Why wouldn't the boot fsck fix the problem without dumping to
a command
prompt?
I think it's run in "preen" mode or something similar. It will fix
simple issues and check things, but if there's a problem that could have
significant effects, it wants the admin to check it out.
2. Have a notebook that also has the fedora 28, but it was a clean
install. It
doesn't even have the /var/lib/yum/yumdb directory. So, am assumming that
this was left over from system from serveral upgrades ago.
Yes.
3. Other than booting from another liveos type setup, is there a way
to fix this
kind of error.
Not really. You either need to use a live boot or work from the
primitive command prompt provided by the initramfs.
Machine has been rebooted, but have never seen the error of
Structure
needing cleaning before.
It's an internal filesystem error, something got corrupted.