unexpected inconsistency; run fsck manually SOLVED

[shez375]

Been having problems with 18.2, it keeps crashing and more often than not will not boot up.It now shows BUSYBOX and it waiting for a command.

[Pjotr]

Please generate an overview of your system like this:
- Launch a terminal window (this is how to launch a terminal window);
- make the terminal window full screen, to avoid chopped lines;
- Copy/paste this command into the terminal:

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inxi -Fxz

(if you type: the letter F is a capital letter)

Press Enter.

Copy/paste the output in your next message.

[shez375]

hi thank you for your quick response, I cannot boot the system up to get a terminal.The boot up stops at BUSYBOX and is waiting for a command

[minitux]

Try a check out system partition from a live CD/USB and when You are logged in the live system try

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sudo fsck -yv /dev/sdnx

sdxn must be your system partition

[shez375]

I can not boot into a live version. I have changed the boot order to cd rom but the GNI GRUB starts and will only try to boot from the hard disk at the point.

[shez375]

here is a little more info.The GRUB is telling me this

unexpected inconsistency; run fsck manually
(ie,,without -a or -p option)
fsck exited with status code 4
the root filesystem on /dev/mapper/mint--vg-root requires a manual fsck

[minitux]

that's what I was saying, a manual check, but you seem to have the encrypted partition and I do not mean it

[shez375]

yes, the partition is encrypted, I am entering the password and it excepts it and starts to load but always enters the busybox and I do not know what to do from there.

[Laurent85]

I can not boot into a live version. I have changed the boot order to cd rom but the GNI GRUB starts and will only try to boot from the hard disk at the point.

That's not related to the filesystem inconsistency. Retry booting a live session, check your bios settings or use the boot function key if available (usually F7 or F12). Then from a terminal run the following commands

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sudo fdisk -l
sudo lsblk --sort name --output name,size,uuid,fstype,mountpoint

[WharfRat]

yes, the partition is encrypted, I am entering the password and it excepts it and starts to load but always enters the busybox and I do not know what to do from there.

You will have to boot to the live media and run sudo /sbin/cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda5 crypt assuming the partition is /dev/sda5 then sudo fsck -fyv /dev/mapper/mint--vg-root

In order to open the LUKS container you'll need to know the password which it appears you do

[shez375]

turns out that the motherboard is terminal