believe it or not, linux crashes as windows, even worse..
two mega crashes took place in three days in my xubuntu.. the most recent took place right after i installed new necessary updates from the net for my newly-reinstalled system..
after i restared the system for the new effects to appear, suddenly i found the system didnt work, leaving me some sort of pla-pla ended as a message appeared in the end : gsck or gcsk check must be done manually in the maintainance mode..
my simple questions as a linux novice are:
1-does this mean that i have to reinstall xubuntu for the second time in three days?
2-how can i access the maintainance mode?
3-how can i do the check as the error message told me?
4-and finally, is this scene frequent after installing updates from the internet, given that the system crashed in the first time when i tried to install xubuntu 9.10 from the internet as well?
i'd be very grateful for your answers, wishing it could mitigate my shock in my beloved xubuntu..
you mean 'fsck'?
fsck == File System ChecK ... this is requested cause you have something wrong with your file system. I would say this is because of either problem with your hard disk (bad sectors or so) or it is because a crash due to install new packages while your root partition is 100% full..
What you should do is to restart your PC and enter the safe mode from the grub menu, then issue the command df -h to make sure of the disk usage, then if the space is ok you should run fsck, I recommend doing so from a live CD would be more safe. If you get fsck errors and your system is newly installed, then I recommend checking your hard disk, and you may actually think of reinstalling the OS instead of repairing it, it'll take less time and you should be ok after that.
BTW, what was your file system? ext4?
Ahmed D. El-Mekkawy
Here is another thought that
Here is another thought that might help you throughout your Linux experience. Linux gives you way much power and control over windows and similar closed source OSs, but power comes with responsibility, meaning that if the system crashes it is most probably your fault not the systems, therefor I suggest that you do a couple of crash courses on how to use Linux and how it works, before really deciding if it does crash as often if not at all.
My Linux never crashes, and I do use Xubuntu as well, and when it crashes I know exactly why it did it, because it had to do with something I did in the first place.
Hope that helped.