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jimchristie
Asked: 2013-05-01 17:54:49 +0800 CST

"General error mounting filesystems" after upgrade to 13.04

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I just tried updating to 13.04 from 12.10. When I restarted, it went to Grub even though there's no other OS on the computer. I clicked on Ubuntu to finish booting and I got a terminal with the error message:

General error mounting filesystems.
A maintenance shell will now be started.
CONTROL-D will terminate this shell and reboot the system.
root@mycomputer:~#

Reboot brings me back to the exact same place.

The only other options on Grub are Advanced options for Ubuntu and a couple of memory test options. I ran one of them and it came out fine.

I have no idea what to do next. Please advise.

EDIT:

Per request, here is the contents of /etc/fstab:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices 
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system>  <mount point>   <type>   <options>        <dump>   <pass>
# /was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=5b22f712-cd92-446e-8984-0c31ca17c02c /                ext4     errors=remount
-ro 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=86ea10b7-9309-4860-8ade-059f9d9fa328 none             swap     sw
  0       0
upgrade

2 Answers

  1. May be the upgrade is'nt complete yet. I find same problem and trying this:

    1. Boot on LiveUSB
    2. mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
    3. chroot /mnt
    4. sudo apt-get update
    5. sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
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  2. Best Answer

    I followed the steps in Sukmono's answer:

    1. Boot on LiveUSB
    2. sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
    3. sudo chroot /mnt
    4. sudo apt-get update
    5. sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

    That much got me an error and a suggestion that I run sudo apt-get install -f. I did so and that fixed the problem. After shutting down, removing the LiveUSB, and rebooting, Ubuntu 13.04 booted right up.

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