Since it drops you to a shell just prompt do what it tells you to do --
run fsck manually.
I don't know what partitions /home and /var are on (/dev/hda1,
/dev/hda2...?) but if you know -- and you should remember if you
installed it -- then at the prompt type:
fsck /dev/<a partition>
for each of the partitions. If fsck prompts you for information during
the fixups just press the enter key and accept the defaults. I had a
client who never could get the hang of shutting down the computer and
ALWAYS just turned it off. About once every couple of weeks I had to
guide him through the above procedure and it always got him going again.
Ed.
Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
>
> HELP!
>
> This morning Netscape running under KDE in RH 7.1 completely froze my
> system.
>
> Since the system was frozen and I could not use the keyboard or the
> mouse I turned off the power.
>
> Big Mistake.
>
> Now the system refuses to boot past /home or /var.
>
> Error message is that /home and /var contain a file system with errors,
> check forced.
>
> for /home Unattached inode 256589
> UNEXPECTED INCONSTANCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
>
> for /var An error occurred during the file system check.
> Dropping you to a shell;
>
> HELP! Please advise how to proceed before I mess something else up.
>
> Thanks
> Frank
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