Heads up on boot menu [Solved}

[anthony2010]

Hi.

This isn't bothering me but I figured I might as well mention it..
on boot up I get a message asking me to either enter 'S' to skip mount or 'something else' to repair.

Thanks

[ofb]

Can be a number of things. What's popular is a broken swap. Run 'free' in terminal to check.

[anthony2010]

Hey.

Does this mean anything?

Cheers,

Ant

[gold_finger]

Does this mean anything?

Don't know if you were trying to post the output of the free command or not, but we don't see anything in your reply to respond to. Try again and follow instructions here for posting the output of commands back to forum.

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free -h

Another possible cause is that system is trying to auto-mount something during startup that either doesn't exist (might not be connected to computer), or has wrong UUID associated with it. Post back with output of these two commands also:

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cat /etc/fstab
sudo blkid -c /dev/null

[anthony2010]

Cheers man.

Here's the output to 'free - h'

nthony@anthony-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M ~ $ free -h
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 7.7G 7.6G 142M 15M 83M 6.3G
-/+ buffers/cache: 1.2G 6.5G
Swap: 7.9G 364K 7.9G
anthony@anthony-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M ~ $

Here's the output to the second terminal enquiry:

nthony@anthony-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M ~ $ cat /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=d1995e39-c1cf-49ea-ade6-a7c14524dd9e / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=0986096c-0617-4b94-9fef-389bf8d00d67 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-WDC_WD50_00LPVT-22G33T0_D21AB2C9922F-0:0-part1 /mnt/usb-WDC_WD50_00LPVT-22G33T0_D21AB2C9922F-0:0-part1 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
anthony@anthony-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M ~ $ sudo blkid -c /dev/null
[sudo] password for anthony:
/dev/sr0: LABEL="BE_LOVED" TYPE="udf"
/dev/sda1: UUID="d1995e39-c1cf-49ea-ade6-a7c14524dd9e" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda5: UUID="0986096c-0617-4b94-9fef-389bf8d00d67" TYPE="swap"
anthony@anthony-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M ~ $

Should I just reinstall the thing? Hope that's not needed its taken me ages to get all my media back after an external drive died on me.

Oh the 'BE-LOVED' thing must be ogmrip which is currently ripping 'Immortal Beloved' to Matrotska.

[Pjotr]

Try disabling this line in fstab:

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/dev/disk/by-id/usb-WDC_WD50_00LPVT-22G33T0_D21AB2C9922F-0:0-part1 /mnt/usb-WDC_WD50_00LPVT-22G33T0_D21AB2C9922F-0:0-part1 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0

You can disable it by putting a hash tag before it, like this:

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#/dev/disk/by-id/usb-WDC_WD50_00LPVT-22G33T0_D21AB2C9922F-0:0-part1 /mnt/usb-WDC_WD50_00LPVT-22G33T0_D21AB2C9922F-0:0-part1 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0

[gold_finger]

Should I just reinstall the thing?

No need to do that.

Just looks like you had an external drive (my guess as to what it is) connected when originally installing, or you connected it at some point afterwards and used the Disks program to create an auto-mount entry for it afterwards. Here is the culprit shown in your fstab file (where system looks to on start-up for instructions on which partitions to mount):

# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=d1995e39-c1cf-49ea-ade6-a7c14524dd9e / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=0986096c-0617-4b94-9fef-389bf8d00d67 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-WDC_WD50_00LPVT-22G33T0_D21AB2C9922F-0:0-part1 /mnt/usb-WDC_WD50_00LPVT-22G33T0_D21AB2C9922F-0:0-part1 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0

You can edit the fstab file and either comment out that line by putting a "#" (no quotes) in front of it; or you can just delete it. Below are outlined steps assuming your text editor is gedit. If you're using Mate, substitute pluma for gedit.

• Open fstab file with text editor as root with this command in a terminal

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  gksu gedit /etc/fstab

• Comment out the line, or delete it from the file
• Save change to file, close text editor, close terminal, reboot computer.
• Now when you reboot you should no longer see that message to "skip mounting", etc.

[anthony2010]

- and that's why I like using Mint. Good operating system and a helpful community.

Cheers everyone, that cured it.

an asterix... just that. Who would have thought?

Anthony.