
Yesterday, I did nothing special with the computer... However, this morning, something special came to me when I booted it up
"/etc/init.d/rcS line 227: /sbin/fsck fsck failed. Please repair manually ... "more text"... "
Does anyone got any idea what the problem is this and how to get over ?
fsck is to linux what scandisk is to windows. It checks your partitions for inconsistencies. If fsck fails, it normally means it came across an error which it prefers to ask for permission to fix. The "more text" bit should have told you how to run fsck manually to fix this problem. It'll definitely tell you which partition was at fault, so you'll need to boot into single user more and run that command. This generally means there has been some sort of filesystem corruption, although why and where it happened can be for any number of reasons - broken kernels, broken hardware, sunspots, etc.