[SOLVED] upgrade problem 7.10 to 8.04

[stoppage]

On an upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04 Ubuntu refused the restart....on a maintenance shell it registered „fsck died with exit status 8...file system check failed, please repair manually“. Apparently its a problem with hda7, home folder. Can somebody please hel me out here?

[devils casper]

Execute fsck.<filesystem> command on /dev/hda7 in Rescue shell.
Are you sure that device name assigned to partition is hda7 not sda7?

fsck.<ext3> /dev/hda7

[D-cat]

That indeed may be the issue. The fstab is probably referencing /dev/hda7 instead of the new kernel method (everything is sdxn).

The whole SATA flexibility thing probably has something to do with why this change occured and UUID's have become preferred specification.

[stoppage]

hda7 is correct, fsck shows no problems....
Reiserfs journal '/dev/hda7' in blocks [18..8211]: 0 transactions replayed
Checking internal tree..finished
Comparing bitmaps..finished
Checking Semantic tree:
finished
No corruptions found
There are on the filesystem:
Leaves 1381
Internal nodes 10
Directories 1310
Other files 7356
Data block pointers 141685 (2568 of them are zero)
Safe links 0
###########
reiserfsck finished at Sun Mar 8 04:57:40 2009

and fstab....
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/hda5
UUID=c5101ab0-f78e-4ea9-847f-2d9a3dc46a3a / reiserfs notail 0 1
# /dev/sda1
UUID=13DCF6A55EFADC19 /media/sda1 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=4F73DA99F0DCD0C4 /media/sda5 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda6
UUID=B2C4ABDA5DF0D5B9 /media/sda6 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/hda6
UUID=203ed7dd-9c2b-4c14-bd42-6acb54356e61 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda7 /home reiserfs nodev,nosuid 0 2

[devils casper]

Does Ubuntu boot up fine now? In case it doesn't, boot up from Ubuntu LiveCD and execute this in Terminal :

sudo fdisk -l

Post output here.

* Its small L in fdisk -l.

[stoppage]

~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3ddf3dde

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda2 * 2 9729 78140160 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 2 6375 51199123+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 6376 6694 2562336 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda7 6695 7331 5116671 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1fdc1fdb

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 12749 102406311 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 12750 38913 210162330 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 12750 22311 76806733+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 22312 25499 25607578+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 25500 25742 1951866 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8 25743 28302 20563168+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 28303 37863 76798701 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 37864 38913 8434093+ 83 Linux
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

[devils casper]

Boot up from Ubuntu LiveCD and comment out /dev/hda7 line in /etc/fstab file. Check if system boot upto Login Screen.

[stoppage]

o.k., now I've come to login screen with „your home directory is listed as „home/tony“ but it does not appear to exist.
It goes on about booting in failsafe which brings me nothing and further informs of /home.dmrc being ignored and file permissions should be „644“

HUH?!

[devils casper]

Mount /dev/hda7 manually.

sudo mkdir /media/hda7
sudo mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda7 /media/hda7

Does above command throw any error?

[stoppage]

sudo mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda7 /media/hda7
returns"special device /dev/hda7 does not exist"