Thread: Newbie on the brink!! -

I'm a new user to Ubuntu after 15 + years of a Windows only environment and loving it. Apart from the fact that I seem to have screwed up my installation already.

I'm not really sure how I've done it but currently my system won't boot and stops a this point;

*Setting kernel variables... [ok]
.: 17: Can't open /lib/init/vars.sh
.: 24: Can't open /lib/init/mount-function.sh
.: 16: Can't open /lib/init/vars.sh
.: 15: Can't open /lib/init/vars.sh
.: 11: Can't open /lib/init/vars.sh
* Checking minimum space in /tmp... [ok]
mv: inter-device move failed: '/dev/.udev.log' to '/var/log/udev' ; unable to remove target: read-only file system
/etc/rcS.d/S39readhead-desktop: 73: mountpoint: not found
/etc/rcS.d/S39readhead-desktop: 73: mountpoint: not found
* Skipping firewall: ufw (not enabled)... [ok]
* Configuring network interfaces... [fail]
/etc/rcS.d/S45waitnfs.sh: 106: /lib/init/mountall-net-fs: not found
.: 11: Can't open /lib/init/vars.sh
chmod: changing permissions of '/var/run/screen': Read-only file system
chown: changing ownership of '/tmp/.X11-unix': Read-only file system
.: 14: Can't open /lib/init/vars.sh
.: 19: Can't open /lib/init/vars.sh
init: rc-default main process (4636) terminated with status 127

It look like i must have changed some ownership of some critical directories my mistake.

Does anyone have some suggestion on how to save this installation ?

Please don't make me go back to windows!

execute the following commands in a terminal:

Code:

ls -l /lib/init/
ls -ld /lib/init
ls -ld /lib

post the output

dracayr

Originally Posted by dracayr

execute the following commands in a terminal:

Code:

ls -l /lib/init/
ls -ld /lib/init
ls -ld /lib

post the output

dracayr

BTW, since you can't boot your computer normally, you'll have to do these commands from the LiveCD. (Make sure you run the commands on the /lib folder for your ubuntu install instead of the /lib folder on the cd. The one for your Ubuntu install will be something like /media/hda0/lib/.....

Originally Posted by jimv

BTW, since you can't boot your computer normally, you'll have to do these commands from the LiveCD. (Make sure you run the commands on the /lib folder for your ubuntu install instead of the /lib folder on the cd. The one for your Ubuntu install will be something like /media/hda0/lib/.....

yeah, forgot to mention that. Also, have you tried the recovery mode?

dracayr

ubuntu@ubuntu:/media/disk/lib$ ls -l /lib/init/
total 24
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2702 2008-04-18 16:02 mountall-net-fs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3094 2008-04-18 16:02 mount-functions.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11224 2008-04-18 16:02 readlink
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5630 2008-04-18 16:02 usplash-fsck-functions.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 129 2008-04-18 16:02 vars.sh

ubuntu@ubuntu:/media/disk/lib$ ls -ld /lib/init
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 110 2008-04-22 18:02 /lib/init

ubuntu@ubuntu:/media/disk/lib$ ls -ld /lib
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 60 2008-06-20 17:39 /lib

I think I've done this right!

If you mean recovery mode as in the second option on the GRUB menu then yes but I get the same result.

Try running fsck from the live cd on your Ubuntu partition.

sudo fsck -pyv hda1 (or whatever your ubuntu partition is)

Originally Posted by TheRealYeti

ubuntu@ubuntu:/media/disk/lib$ ls -l /lib/init/
total 24
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2702 2008-04-18 16:02 mountall-net-fs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3094 2008-04-18 16:02 mount-functions.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11224 2008-04-18 16:02 readlink
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5630 2008-04-18 16:02 usplash-fsck-functions.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 129 2008-04-18 16:02 vars.sh

ubuntu@ubuntu:/media/disk/lib$ ls -ld /lib/init
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 110 2008-04-22 18:02 /lib/init

ubuntu@ubuntu:/media/disk/lib$ ls -ld /lib
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 60 2008-06-20 17:39 /lib

I think I've done this right!

no, you haven't. when you're in that directory, simply execute the commands

Code:

ls -l init/
ls -ld init
 ls -ld .

alternatively, execute the commands

Code:

ls -l /media/disk/lib/init/
ls -ld /media/disk/lib/init/
 ls -ld /media/disk/lib

dracayr

I'm curious.When you installed ubuntu, did it work the first time? If so, do you know exactly what you did after that.

fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)
e2fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)
/dev/sdd5: clean, 178041/3096576 files, 4137652/12357993 blocks