init: hwclock main process terminated with status 2
I don't have a clue how this happened. I turned off my laptop, unplugged
it and the next time I turned it on, the subject line is what I saw. It
drops me to a maintenance shell.
I've googled my butt off and everything I tried did not work. I've tried
'mountall start', 'init 2', I've tried setting the hwclock with 'hwclock
--set --date xx/xx/xxxx'. I've fscked /dev/sda5 from a live cd, chrooted
to it from the cd all to no avail.
Even though I'm root in the shell, I can't mount the volume. I get
permission denied. I've tried everything I can think of short of
reinstalling. XP works fine from grub. Every kernel I try, I get the
same thing, including the recovery options.
Any ideas?
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01-24-2011, 03:49 PM
NoOp
init: hwclock main process terminated with status 2
On 01/23/2011 12:09 PM, scott wrote:
> I don't have a clue how this happened. I turned off my laptop, unplugged
> it and the next time I turned it on, the subject line is what I saw. It
> drops me to a maintenance shell.
>
> I've googled my butt off and everything I tried did not work. I've tried
> 'mountall start', 'init 2', I've tried setting the hwclock with 'hwclock
> --set --date xx/xx/xxxx'. I've fscked /dev/sda5 from a live cd, chrooted
> to it from the cd all to no avail.
>
> Even though I'm root in the shell, I can't mount the volume. I get
> permission denied. I've tried everything I can think of short of
> reinstalling. XP works fine from grub. Every kernel I try, I get the
> same thing, including the recovery options.
> Any ideas?
Typically that erorr msg will accompany the actual error msg. For example:
init: hwclock main process (nnn) terminated with status 2
.: can't open /etc/default/rcS
init: mountall main process (nnn) terminated with status 2
filesystem check failed
That guy's problem was /etc/default/rcS.
Post the entire output of the message, or take a photo of the screen &
post somewhere. Also, boot to a liveCD and take a look at your /var/log
files to see if you can spot any obvious error messages.
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01-25-2011, 03:50 PM
scott
init: hwclock main process terminated with status 2
On 1/24/2011 11:49 AM, NoOp wrote:
> On 01/23/2011 12:09 PM, scott wrote:
>> I don't have a clue how this happened. I turned off my laptop, unplugged
>> it and the next time I turned it on, the subject line is what I saw. It
>> drops me to a maintenance shell.
>>
>> I've googled my butt off and everything I tried did not work. I've tried
>> 'mountall start', 'init 2', I've tried setting the hwclock with 'hwclock
>> --set --date xx/xx/xxxx'. I've fscked /dev/sda5 from a live cd, chrooted
>> to it from the cd all to no avail.
>>
>> Even though I'm root in the shell, I can't mount the volume. I get
>> permission denied. I've tried everything I can think of short of
>> reinstalling. XP works fine from grub. Every kernel I try, I get the
>> same thing, including the recovery options.
>> Any ideas?
>
> Typically that erorr msg will accompany the actual error msg. For example:
> init: hwclock main process (nnn) terminated with status 2
> .: can't open /etc/default/rcS
> init: mountall main process (nnn) terminated with status 2
> filesystem check failed
> That guy's problem was /etc/default/rcS.
>
> Post the entire output of the message, or take a photo of the screen &
> post somewhere. Also, boot to a liveCD and take a look at your /var/log
> files to see if you can spot any obvious error messages.
>
>
I think it had to do with a missing mount point. In any case, I just
reinstalled and kept my /home and everything is back to normal. I sure
would like to know what caused it, though.
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01-29-2011, 06:26 PM
Tom H
init: hwclock main process terminated with status 2
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:50 AM, scott <redhowlingwolves@nc.rr.com> wrote:
> On 1/24/2011 11:49 AM, NoOp wrote:
>> On 01/23/2011 12:09 PM, scott wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't have a clue how this happened. I turned off my laptop, unplugged
>>> it and the next time I turned it on, the subject line is what I saw. It
>>> drops me to a maintenance shell.
>>>
>>> I've googled my butt off and everything I tried did not work. I've tried
>>> 'mountall start', 'init 2', I've tried setting the hwclock with 'hwclock
>>> --set --date xx/xx/xxxx'. I've fscked /dev/sda5 from a live cd, chrooted
>>> to it from the cd all to no avail.
>>>
>>> Even though I'm root in the shell, I can't mount the volume. I get
>>> permission denied. I've tried everything I can think of short of
>>> reinstalling. XP works fine from grub. Every kernel I try, I get the
>>> same thing, including the recovery options.
>>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Typically that erorr msg will accompany the actual error msg. For example:
>> * * init: hwclock main process (nnn) terminated with status 2
>> * * .: can't open /etc/default/rcS
>> * * init: mountall main process (nnn) terminated with status 2
>> * * filesystem check failed
>> That guy's problem was /etc/default/rcS.
>>
>> Post the entire output of the message, or take a photo of the screen &
>> post somewhere. Also, boot to a liveCD and take a look at your /var/log
>> files to see if you can spot any obvious error messages.
>>
>>
> I think it had to do with a missing mount point. In any case, I just
> reinstalled and kept my /home and everything is back to normal. I sure
> would like to know what caused it, though.
Glad you fixed the problem.
Meant to answer originally but deleted your email by mistake and forgot.
What I meant to say was that "/etc/init/hwclock.conf" has "start on
starting mountall" so your problem might very well be a mount problem
rather than a hwclock one.
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