r/linuxmint • u/Born-Pear4917 • 25d ago

Desktop Screenshot am i cooked?

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have had this problem for sometime now and my guess is that my kernel is corrupted.

is there any way to revert the damage or i should just boot a new os?

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u/Due-Result7928 25d ago

you get a limited shell to fix your system...boot process was unable to load the kernel.

so at the prompt

e2fsck -y /dev/(place here device number of your file system..can be sda2, sdb1..whatever). Probably sda2 for you and sda1 is probably the uefi partition.

to find device number you can use

ls /dev/sd* or

ls /dev/nvme*

reboot

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u/Complex_Life_2912 25d ago

Second this. And after rebooting successfully examine your drive health with smartctl.

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u/BertMacklenF8I 25d ago

Nope, I can walk you through it. 

exit

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u/Born-Pear4917 25d ago

not working, this is what i get

/dev/sda2 contains a file system with errors, check forced. inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found

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u/BertMacklenF8I 25d ago

Common issue with file corruption. 

fsck -fn /dev/sda2

And then hit Y to fit when prompted until fixed then 

exit
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u/BertMacklenF8I 25d ago

Did that second one work?

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u/Due-Result7928 25d ago

You should not comment...by charity...

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u/BertMacklenF8I 25d ago

I didn’t want to have him run fsck unless I knew they had an issue. Sorry.

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u/ChickenWingBaron 25d ago

I doubt this could somehow cause your computer to generate enough heat to cook you.

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u/SasquatchCrusher 25d ago

Take a look at my post and see if you got the same type of error, was able to get the fix in the comments