System starts in emergency mode...how do I recover ?? (as a newbie)

[antonio]

Ed Greshko ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on 25/08/2014 00:22:
> On 08/25/14 06:10, antonio montagnani wrote:
>> Suddenly my laptop when rebooted doesn't start in the usual way After six months of hard work) but it stops when bootib with this message
>> drm:cpt-serr_int_handler ERROR PCH transcoder a FIFO underrun
>> and the appears some lines with request for password for maintenance mode or CTRL-D option...
>>
>> If I open journalctl -xb I see some errors in particular saying that fsck failed with error code 4 on dev/mapper/fedora and suggestint to use fsck.
>>
>> How do I revover from this situation?? (I am writing from this machine started with CTRL-D option)
>
> Did you then run fsck manually?  Error code 4 means ...  "Filesystem errors left uncorrected".  Sounds like a disk may be dying.
>
> The PCH transcoder error, on googling, seems to be related to Intel graphics and not a fatal error.
>

how do I run fsck manually?? surprised to hear that a disk may be dying 
as the system is six months old .....

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