On Sat, 5 May 2007 22:59:21 +0530 "suman rapolu" <suman.neo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Today when i tried to upgrade some packages using "Synaptic" package > manager, the window didn't minimized and suddenly not responded. From > then no GUI application(either Gnome or KDE) is getting opened, and > giving errors like "X server is not running". Then i first logged-off > from my current user account. After logging-off it gave me message > like "X server is not running and after correcting errors start the > "GDM" server". > > Then i rebooted my system hoping the X server may get > initialized at boot time, so that the problem may disappear. But at > booting time it gave "filesystem is corrupted" and is not booting > now. I am using Fedora 5 (linux 2.6.15 kernel). I tried to get a copy > of "syslog" messages but the filesystem is corrupted. > > Can anybody help me please, i have some important data init. > > Thanks in advance, > Suman. Hi Suman, Caveat: I am not an expert at this. It doesn't sound good. The normal thing is to try booting either a rescue disc or a second copy of the OS on another hard disk. This will allow you to examine the hard drive that has the corruption. It might be recoverable, but I think the system usually recovers automatically if it can. There is a way to ask the filesystems to be checked at boot, but I haven't done it for a long time. I think you hit a capital I at the start of the boot process. Good luck.
