Recently, my system was upgraded "accidently" to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. (I was unprepared to do the upgrade from 8.04LTS (had not finished my research), and I accidently pressed the upgrade button in error. By the time I realized what was happening, it was too late - and so had to finish the upgrade process.)
When the 10.04 LTS system finally restarted, it "hung" during the reboot.
In trying to discover what was going on, I pressed CTRL-C, thinking that at worst something would stop.
Nothing happened. I started to press CTRL-C again and hit the "F" key instead.
That is when I discovered that fsck had detected a filesystem error, and that I had just told it to "FIX" an unknown problem because a hidden prompt was waiting for input!
This is NOT a good way to do things...
(By the way, while I have only been using Linux for a couple of years, I have been in I.T. for over 45 years.)
Recently, my system was upgraded "accidently" to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. (I was unprepared to do the upgrade from 8.04LTS (had not finished my research), and I accidently pressed the upgrade button in error. By the time I realized what was happening, it was too late - and so had to finish the upgrade process.)
When the 10.04 LTS system finally restarted, it "hung" during the reboot.
In trying to discover what was going on, I pressed CTRL-C, thinking that at worst something would stop.
Nothing happened. I started to press CTRL-C again and hit the "F" key instead.
That is when I discovered that fsck had detected a filesystem error, and that I had just told it to "FIX" an unknown problem because a hidden prompt was waiting for input!
This is NOT a good way to do things...
(By the way, while I have only been using Linux for a couple of years, I have been in I.T. for over 45 years.)