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Last night my laptop froze up and I had to do a hard shutdown. Now Xubuntu won't boot up. I was getting the error message "mountall: error while loading shared libraries: libply-boot-client.so.2: cannot open shared object file: Input/output error". I tried 'Advanced options for Ubuntu> recovery mode' and selected fsck but received the same error.

I searched for an answer with no success. An old post suggested using a live boot to mount and chroot the partition and update mountall but that didn't work. I now get a blinking cursor when trying to do a normal boot.

I even tried to reinstall plymouth but received a message about breaking it. I was getting the error "plymouth: error while loading shared libraries: libply.so.2: cannot open shared object files: Input/output error" beforehand but that stopped.

Please help.

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That sounds to me like a disk drive problem. You can boot from a live CD and use smartctl to confirm.

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  • @ James Fu I used 'sudo smartctl -Hc /dev/sda' and it's said "SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED".
    – P J
    Oct 24, 2013 at 3:08
  • @PJ That's good news. After chroot-ing, can you try sudo apt-get install --reinstall libplymouth2 and report back?
    – James Fu
    Oct 24, 2013 at 13:32

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