Booting gets in emergency mode

[Richard Sewill]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 4:36 AM, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> After doing the last F18 updates, I cannot boot my machine. I get in
> the emergency mode and the message:
>
> sulogin: /root: change directory failed: Permission denied.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Paul
> --
>

I don't know if you and I have a similar problem.

I did a format/install on / of F18 and have no problems with the /
partition.
The / partition is ext4.

I did not format my /home partition.  It is still ext3.  I am having
problems with it.

rsewill at localhost:~ <3:14> $ df -T
Filesystem     Type     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs       devtmpfs    465028        0    465028   0% /dev
tmpfs          tmpfs       476448     1436    475012   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs          tmpfs       476448     3024    473424   1% /run
tmpfs          tmpfs       476448        0    476448   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda2      ext4      28221604  8970576  17817428  34% /
tmpfs          tmpfs       476448        8    476440   1% /tmp
/dev/sda6      ext3      75795940 31873248  40072436  45% /home
rsewill at localhost:~ <3:15> $

It seems my /home partition needs fsck repair every 5th or 6th time I
reboot.

I have to give the root password at the prompt and do
fsck -y /home

The problem on the /home partition seems to vary.
Last time the problem was inodes multiply used in the chrome browser cache
directory.

I guess I would ask if any of your partitions are in need of fsck repair.

Perhaps you can remove quiet mode and the Redhat banner from the grub2 boot
options during boot (I think you have to figure out how to remove the quiet
param and rhgb param from the line that start linux /boot/vmlinuz...--could
someone correct me on this please and explain better how to do this please)
and get messages indicating the nature of the boot problem.
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