Unable to mount /home partition

[al_mic]

Hi all,

I have a problem with my karmic koala ubuntu 9.10, and I hope you can help me solve it:

It all started with a periodic disk scan while booting.
I was in a hurry so I pressed Escape to skip the scan, and i quickly got to my Desktop
After that, I needed to restart the computer, and while booting I got an error message:
"One or more of the mounts listed in /etc/fstab cannot yet be mounted:
/home: waiting for UUID=eccb7cbf-618a-4e03-aafe-634b4ca0a918
Press ESC to enter a recovery shell"



My /etc/fstab looks like this:
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=82c68f35-e68a-4cd1-af3e-cb503b1cf7e5 / ext4 errors=remount -ro 0 1

# /home was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=eccb7cbf-618a-4e03-aafe-634b4ca0a918 /home ext4 defaults 0 2

#swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=7bba7a29-e1da-461d-8fcd-414610f910db none swap sw 0 0

/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0


I must also tell you that I selected to have an encrypted home directory, and i still have the passphrase that was generated just after install.

Any idea on what to do to fix it?

Thanks.

[bacardiandwatermelon]

Wouldn't have a clue but I'm sure you could just boot into recovery mode and drop out into a root prompt. then run a.......... fsck /dev/sda6 to run a file system check on the home partition.

[al_mic]

Thank you for the reply!


I did as you told.
And after running:
# sudo fsck /dev/sda6

I got:

/dev/sda6: clean, 7064/7290880 files, 1771617/29149934 blocks


So.. it seems that /home partition is ok. Any idea what to do next?

[hal10000]

I got:

/dev/sda6: clean, 7064/7290880 files, 1771617/29149934 blocks


So.. it seems that /home partition is ok. Any idea what to do next?

If this did'nt work, then you have to enforce fsck to do a system check
Boot into the recovery console and do:

fsck.ext4 -f /dev/sda6

[doas777]

well, if the fschk is done, try rebooting and try again

[al_mic]

I tried :
# sudo fsck.ext4 -f /dev/sda6

and the output:

Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/sda6: 7064/7290880 files (8.3% non-contiguous), 1771617/29149934 blocks


I also tried:
# sudo mount -a

and the output:

mount: special device UUID=eccb7cbf-618a-4e03-aafe-634b4ca0a918 does not exist

I tried rebooting it, but it still stops at the same message.