HELP... CRASHED! Old Vaio with Mint 19.1 Cinnamon 4.15.0.151
by Xexpat from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5N8ZR)
Hi
Not really a Newbie, but a 12yr gui only user. Not really a computer guy, I could never master the command line. As an old dad, I just inherit the families old PCs and install Ubuntu on them.
So today I was doing some gmailing in Mozzila on this old vaio PCG-61A1L. Then I switched to a Libre doc and it wouldn't open. I tried launching Office Libre.. nada.
Re booting I get an initramfs. That's a new one for me.
When I relaunch in recovery mode, I get:
...CONTAINS FILE SYSTEM ERRORS,CHECK FORCED.
...7 URANDOM WARNINGS DUE TO RATELIMITING /dev/sda1:
UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCIES, RUN fsk MANUALLY.
fsk exited with status code 4 done.
FAILURE: file system check of the root file system failed
The root filesystem on /dev/sda1 requires a manual fsck
And then (initramfs)
Is this easily recoverable? I'm traveling and only have this laptop, my phone, and my wife's Chrome book, in case I need to make a bootable USB.
Please reassure me that my docs will be recoverable.
Thanks to any and all for your help!
Not really a Newbie, but a 12yr gui only user. Not really a computer guy, I could never master the command line. As an old dad, I just inherit the families old PCs and install Ubuntu on them.
So today I was doing some gmailing in Mozzila on this old vaio PCG-61A1L. Then I switched to a Libre doc and it wouldn't open. I tried launching Office Libre.. nada.
Re booting I get an initramfs. That's a new one for me.
When I relaunch in recovery mode, I get:
...CONTAINS FILE SYSTEM ERRORS,CHECK FORCED.
...7 URANDOM WARNINGS DUE TO RATELIMITING /dev/sda1:
UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCIES, RUN fsk MANUALLY.
fsk exited with status code 4 done.
FAILURE: file system check of the root file system failed
The root filesystem on /dev/sda1 requires a manual fsck
And then (initramfs)
Is this easily recoverable? I'm traveling and only have this laptop, my phone, and my wife's Chrome book, in case I need to make a bootable USB.
Please reassure me that my docs will be recoverable.
Thanks to any and all for your help!