fsck problem on updating to F10

[Eric Sandeen]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan (pocallaghan at gmail.com) said: 
>> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Patrick O'Callaghan (pocallaghan at gmail.com) said:
>>>> I updated my F9 to F10 from the Preview DVD, but on rebooting after
>>>> updatig I get a complaint about an fsck error and am then offered a
>>>> shell to fix it. Trouble is, I can' t figure out what the error is.
>>>> fsck from the shell shows no errors. Ditto fsck from the DVD in rescue
>>>> mode. /var/log/* has no lines containing 'fsck' .
>>> Can you just transcribe the error and post it?
>> If it persists after the update I'll do that, however IIRC it didn't
>> seem to contain anything useful, such as a filesystem or device name.
>> To paraphrase, it was along the lines of "There was an fsck error and
>> here's a shell so you can fix it. Type Ctrl-D to reboot when you're
>> done".
> 
> There should at least be *some* error above that, whether from fsck, mount,
> or otherwise.

when you ran it manually, how did you invoke it?  the "-f -n" options
will force it to check, but not actually change anything, if you want to
be conservative.

-Eric