Hi, Im a basic user, yesterday my machine booted into emergency mode. Looking around I managed to “fix it”, I used fsck, rebooted and it got out of emergency mode. But now, as expected, it keep having some bugs, first the endeavour tools, launcher, apps info, logs tool, update, reflector, wont open, either clicking it or launching from terminal. Second, Firefox is my main browser (Im writing from Chromium) and it also dont open at all, just crashes. From what I could figure it has some corrupted journal entries. Theres a way to fix it without having to reinstall?
Here’s some screens from the terminal, hope it helps to understand what’s going on, I tried the commands that you suggest to post log entries but I couldn’t manage to have it sent to the pastebin
Has anything happened recently that would explain why your have corrupted journal entries? For example, was the system shut down un-cleanly (loss of power, hard reset, etc)?
Did something in particular precede the failed boot, such as a system update?
If there isn’t a specific reason you would expect to see a corrupted journal, then I suggest taking a full backup of important data onto an external drive before proceeding further… just in case.
It sounds like you have a bunch of filesystem corruption. This could mean something went wrong and the logical filesystem is a mess or it could mean the physical disk is failing.
I agree with @Bink that you should first backup any important data before doing anything else.
No, friday I updated and upgrade normally, rebooted and it was working normally, shut it off around the 9 pm. Saturday I turned it on around the 7-8 pm and the error was already in, didnt even managed to update or something to mess it. Guess Im gonna have to back up some files before moving into something else.
Yup, grab a backup and then we can dig deeper. When a drive is possibly failing, the principle is to stop using it immediately, except to grab a backup. Otherwise there’s potential to make a problem worse or even catastrophic.
You might try grabbing the SMART information:
sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda
After a backup, this tool can be used to perform a scan too.
