I'm using ubuntu 10.10 dual boot with XP. I planned to increase the size of swap partition. So I delete the swap partition. And I move the partition right so that swap partition can get 2 GB.
Then I shutdown the system without editing the appropriate UUID for swap in "/etc/fstab" file.
So when I start the computer It said "Continue to wait; Press S to skip; Press M to manual ... something" . But it does not respond for any thing (For pressing S or M).
Using live CD I resize and formatted the raw partition to linux-swap with GParted Partition Editor.The fstab file looked different in live CD So I tried recovery mode of Ubuntu.There I edited the fstab file with correct UUID for swapping.
After I reboot the System it never finishes booting
In the output of fdisk command the start sector(or block I don't know what it is) of swap partition is same as end value of consecutive partition.
So I made some space between swap partition and next partition(which is NTFS partion and not a system partition). I have updated the UUID in fstab file.
But it is again booting up continuously or infinitely
What might be the problem ?How to get rid of this ?
The output of the fdisk command
$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x022c022b
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 6374 51199123+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 6375 60800 437176814+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 6375 21672 122881153+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 21690 40659 152367104 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 40929 60800 159614976 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda8 40664 40925 2097152 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition table entries are not in disk order
In Live CD
$ sudo blkid
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sda1: UUID="F8F81FD0F81F8C4E" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda5: UUID="b6768343-075c-44a5-8229-4070a80d2d49" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda6: LABEL="entertainment" UUID="7630A95430A91C5D" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda7: LABEL="label1" UUID="9414A64F14A63460" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda8: UUID="1993033c-a261-4506-8520-2b5ff9fd9a60" TYPE="swap"
I can start the Ubuntu in recovery mode.
I've mounted the filesystem located in the hard drive at mount point /mnt. The kern.log file(/mnt/var/log/kern.log) content is in pastebin.the link is kern.log
The fstab file(/mnt/etc/fstab) content is fstab
I pressed break key while splash screen is showing.It shows this line:
(process:311):GLib-WARNING ** :getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (0)
Then some messages repeated thrice.I again pressed break key the splash screen shown again.After few minutes When I pressed break key that messages repeated more.
I've noted and it is here.Some texts can be missing there.
fsck from Util-linux 2.17.2
/dev/sda5: clean, 191939/7684096 files, 5176534/30720288 block
* starting AppArmor profiles
Skipping profile in /etc/apparmor.d/disable:usr.bin.firefox
[ok]
*setting sensors limits [ok]
*Not starting jetty-edit /etc/default/jetty and change NO_START to be 0 (or comment it out)
Speech dispatcher disable: edit /etc/default/speech-dispatcher
*pulse Audio (...... some thing ......)
Saned disable (...... some thing ......)
* Enabling edit executable binary format bin fmt-super [ok]
*checking battery state ... [ok]
sudo blkid
on the LiveCD? By booting infinitely, you mean it never finishes starting?