This is a serious problem:
I had just left the forum here when kupdate applet started (thought I shut that thing down for good!) guess I was wrong. Anyways got message the 75 manditory updates some security and some recommended updates to be done. Looked over the details and nothing looked pressing …
Tried to open kwrite which crashed, tried to open openoffice-writer and it crashed too. Took gamble on kupdate and system crashed.
Used repair DVD and got this part way through the process…
initrd encountered error click to view log...
> Long wordy thing about kupdate and dbus unable to get connection
> something about changing root from /ext3 to ext2
> removing YaST modules jbd, mbcache, ext3
Repair system says ext3 system is corrupt...
> found ext2 blocks in ext3 fs
> No valid fstab entries
> No initrd /etc/sysconfig/kernel
> missing Yast modules jbd, mbcache, ext3
> Call to mkinitrd failed
> resolves:
> Install symlinks in lib/mkinitrd/setup
> Install symlinks in lib/mkinitrd/boot
> kernel /boot/vmlinux-2.6.31.5-0-1-desktop
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.31.5-0-1-desktop
> root device /dev/sda6 mounted / as ext3
> kernel /boot/vmlinux...
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.31.5-0-1-desktop
> device /dev/sda6 not found
> root device /dev/sda6 not found
> initrd failed
> bootloader config error ... repairing
>
Reboot to text mode boot and reports a boot error
Chose recovery -> assign /dev/sda6 as root
chose goto root filesystem
lets me in but almost all things are down
only thing that did come up fine is Firefox … go figure!
when the system started when going to root filesystem got lots of missing library references.
any help with this?
oh and web pages are incredibly slow…