I just installed debian and i have many problems

Linux@lemmy.ml – 37 points – 1 years ago

My user account doesnt have sudo despite being in sudoers. I cant run new commands i have to execute the binary. Grub takes very long to load with "welcome to grub" message. I just wanted a stable distro as arch broke and currupted my external ssd

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How does Arch breaks and corrupts an external ssd?

Beats me. I just started my windows single gpu passthrough vm and it froze so i rebooted and arch went into emergency mode. The ssd just wont mount. I had to remove it from fstab to boot

I don't think it actually corrupted the SSD, perhaps a module is missing or such, and that's why it goes into emergency mode. Have you tried mounting the drive from say, a live usb?

Yes Screenshot_20231013-053621 If i can get it working ill be so happy as i have 4000 music videos

Arch will go into emergency mode whenever it can't mount a volume in fstab on boot. If the drive is formatted as NTFS, I've had this exact problem. I think it has to do with windows marking the drive as dirty. I didn't bother figuring out what the problem was, I just stopped trying to mount an NTFS drive on boot. Maybe you'd have better luck using the ntfs-3g driver?

Its ext4

Can you see the drive in Debian? Like, does it show up in lsblk output, which doesn't rely on there being anything on the drive? If not, it may have failed. Like, not something that Arch did.

Yes

If the partition in question is /dev/sdd1, what does fsck /dev/sdd1 give?

Also, you shouldn't need to specify the fs type to mount, as it'll auto-detect it.

/usr/sbin/fsck: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

looks puzzled

/usr/sbin/fsck should be an executable. On my Debian Trixie system, it is. That sounds like it's a script, and whatever interpreter is specified to run it by the shebang line at the top of the file doesn't like the file's syntax. I wouldn't think that any Linux distro would replace that binary with a script, as it's something that has to run when almost everything else is broken.

On my system, I get:

$ file /usr/sbin/fsck
/usr/sbin/fsck: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked,   terpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=9d35c49423757582c9a21347eebe2c0f9dfdfdc4, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped
$ strings -n3 /usr/sbin/fsck|head -n5
ELF
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
GNU
GNU
#uu

Do you get anything like that?

EDIT: Oh, wait, wait, wait. /usr/sbin/fsck might be printing that message itself. I was gonna say that fsck shouldn't be looking at any files, but the man page lists /etc/fstab as a file that it looks at. Looking at strace -e openat fsck on my system, it does indeed look at /etc/fstab. Maybe the contents of your /etc/fstab are invalid, have a parenthesis in it. Can you also try grep '(' /etc/fstab and see what that gives?

EDIT2: I don't think that it's an fsck error message. When I replace the first line of my fstab with left parens, I get "fsck: /etc/fstab: parse error at line 1 -- ignored", which is a lot more reasonable.

Sorry i was using sh. This is the output

fsck: error 2 (No such file or directory) while executing fsck.ext2 for /dev/sdd1

Sorry i was using sh.

Ah, okay, that makes more sense.

On my system, looks like fsck.ext2 is a symlink to e2fsck, which is provided by the e2fsprogs package:

$ type fsck.ext2
fsck.ext2 is /sbin/fsck.ext2
$ dpkg -S /sbin/fsck.ext2
e2fsprogs: /sbin/fsck.ext2

Can you try:

# apt install e2fsprogs

And then run:

# fsck /dev/sdd1

Again?

E2fsprogs is installed already

rubs chin

Okay. "error 2 (No such file or directory)" is the error code that perror() will print when it gets ENOENT.

checks

One way you can get that is if you attempt to execute a file that isn't there, or execute or open a symlink that has a target that's missing. Could be that fsck.ext2 is missing or is a symlink, and that the e2fsck binary that it points to isn't there.

On my system, I get this:

$ ls -l /sbin/fsck.ext2 /sbin/e2fsck
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 356624 Sep  8 00:47 /sbin/e2fsck
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      6 Sep  8 00:47 /sbin/fsck.ext2 -> e2fsck

Do you get something like that as well?

If they aren't there, you can force reinstallation of e2fsprogs with # apt install --reinstall e2fsprogs and if the files are missing, that should add them, but I don't know how one could wind up in a situation where the package database thinks that the package is installed but that the binaries aren't present on a fresh Debian install.

I do have it

Okay, though I had an idea as to what should cause that, but no, not it. I deleted my response shortly after posting it, if you already saw it.

Hmm. Well, how about this. It should be possible to run e2fsck directly, and you say that the binary is present. Try:

# /sbin/e2fsck /dev/sdd1

If it says something about /dev/sdd1 being mounted, then don't go ahead with the scan; you've got the wrong partition in that case.

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