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

antonio antonio.montagnani at gmail.com
Mon Aug 25 04:59:33 UTC 2014


Ed Greshko ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on 25/08/2014 00:53:
> On 08/25/14 06:28, antonio wrote:
>> 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 .....
>>
>
> fsck dev/mapper/fedora
>
> should be sufficient to see if there are error.  Others may suggest you run "fsck -y dev/mapper/fedora" to have it try and fix problems automatically.
>
> Disks do die early from time to time.
>

recovered using a Live Fedora and run a fsck on /dev/sda.
Run a smartctl test with no errors. Any idea what could have caused it??

Tnx to all

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Antonio M
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