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http://i.imgur.com/uqRyL.jpg

Trying to log back in, init greets with messages like Failed to spawn encryptfs-utils-save (I don't care for encryption and my drives are never encrypted....at least, not by me - so who or what is encrypting [or trying to] and how can I stop this unathorised encrypting occurring on my hard drives?).

Failed to spawn plymouth-upstart-bridge main process - unable to execute - no such file or directory

5 virtual terminals I wasn't aware of (at the time) killed as well. Perhaps a good thing?

irqbalance main process killed (isn't that for RAID? I have no need for virtualisation and hold RAID in mild contempt for it's monumental security exploitabilities)

modem-manager[993] - caught signal 15, shutting down... (seriously? I'm assuming that has nothing to do with my PPPoE connection, does it?)

dbus main process (856) killed - (I'm a little hazy on the dbus - and suspicious of what it's primarily used for - at least, on my machines which are full of Perl and Python and Ruby and endless catastrophic system failures)

Can anyone shed some light on any of these, or - if I'm lucky - all of them?

Jorge Castro
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jonny
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init: Failed to spawn hwclock main process: unable to execute: No such file or directory will show up when your disc is seriously messed up.

I found 2 ways of getting this to happen:

  1. When you use rm -r in your root directory and then reboot.
  2. A broken disc/partition table.

The 1st is solved by re-installing. The 2nd might not be solvable; formatting from a live cd with gparted might answer this.

Either way... if you need to rescue files from the system I advice starting up a live cd and backup them up first.

con-f-use
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Rinzwind
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