My user account doesnt have sudo despite being in sudoers. I cant run new commands i have to execute the binary. Grub takes very long to load with “welcome to grub” message. I just wanted a stable distro as arch broke and currupted my external ssd

  • mariah@feddit.rocksOP
    41·
    9 months ago

    Beats me. I just started my windows single gpu passthrough vm and it froze so i rebooted and arch went into emergency mode. The ssd just wont mount. I had to remove it from fstab to boot

    • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.netEnglish
      10·
      9 months ago

      I don’t think it actually corrupted the SSD, perhaps a module is missing or such, and that’s why it goes into emergency mode. Have you tried mounting the drive from say, a live usb?

    • ruckblack@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      9 months ago

      Arch will go into emergency mode whenever it can’t mount a volume in fstab on boot. If the drive is formatted as NTFS, I’ve had this exact problem. I think it has to do with windows marking the drive as dirty. I didn’t bother figuring out what the problem was, I just stopped trying to mount an NTFS drive on boot. Maybe you’d have better luck using the ntfs-3g driver?

    • tal@lemmy.today
      2·
      9 months ago

      Can you see the drive in Debian? Like, does it show up in lsblk output, which doesn’t rely on there being anything on the drive? If not, it may have failed. Like, not something that Arch did.

        • tal@lemmy.today
          2·
          9 months ago

          If the partition in question is /dev/sdd1, what does fsck /dev/sdd1 give?

          Also, you shouldn’t need to specify the fs type to mount, as it’ll auto-detect it.

            • tal@lemmy.today
              2·
              9 months ago

              looks puzzled

              /usr/sbin/fsck should be an executable. On my Debian Trixie system, it is. That sounds like it’s a script, and whatever interpreter is specified to run it by the shebang line at the top of the file doesn’t like the file’s syntax. I wouldn’t think that any Linux distro would replace that binary with a script, as it’s something that has to run when almost everything else is broken.

              On my system, I get:

              $ file /usr/sbin/fsck
/usr/sbin/fsck: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked,   terpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=9d35c49423757582c9a21347eebe2c0f9dfdfdc4, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped
$ strings -n3 /usr/sbin/fsck|head -n5
ELF
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
GNU
GNU
#uu

              Do you get anything like that?

              EDIT: Oh, wait, wait, wait. /usr/sbin/fsck might be printing that message itself. I was gonna say that fsck shouldn’t be looking at any files, but the man page lists /etc/fstab as a file that it looks at. Looking at strace -e openat fsck on my system, it does indeed look at /etc/fstab. Maybe the contents of your /etc/fstab are invalid, have a parenthesis in it. Can you also try grep '(' /etc/fstab and see what that gives?

              EDIT2: I don’t think that it’s an fsck error message. When I replace the first line of my fstab with left parens, I get “fsck: /etc/fstab: parse error at line 1 – ignored”, which is a lot more reasonable.

              • mariah@feddit.rocksOP
                21·
                9 months ago

                Sorry i was using sh. This is the output

                fsck: error 2 (No such file or directory) while executing fsck.ext2 for /dev/sdd1
                • tal@lemmy.today
                  2·
                  9 months ago

                  Sorry i was using sh.

                  Ah, okay, that makes more sense.

                  On my system, looks like fsck.ext2 is a symlink to e2fsck, which is provided by the e2fsprogs package:

                  $ type fsck.ext2
fsck.ext2 is /sbin/fsck.ext2
$ dpkg -S /sbin/fsck.ext2
e2fsprogs: /sbin/fsck.ext2

                  Can you try:

                  # apt install e2fsprogs

                  And then run:

                  # fsck /dev/sdd1

                  Again?