Thread: After unexpected shutdown, my filesystem has a lots of errors

hi,

using laptop without battery because doesn't work. ubuntu have had started when somehow charger failed , laptop turned off. when tried boot ubuntu again error appeared on screen , said gdm couldn't start because cannot access /var/lib/gdm.

ubuntu started in console mode. checked /var dir , found out lib not directory symbolic link. obviously, permissions wrong.

i've made lot of fsck , first time reported errors, didn't solve problems. lots of files have worng permissions , think partition in read filesystem state. can't run commands such apt-get, aptitude, etc. , can't turn off ubuntu correctly because when starts stopping services stucks in "saving system clock".

haven't found solution , appreciate if me. i'm using ubuntu 9.04 , important note hard drive still working , doesn't have bad sectors because have scan gparted , didn't report me errors. also, i'm posting same laptop using windows , haven't had problems hard drive. important thing in windows use ext2 ifs windows vista mount ubuntu partition , have access files in ubuntu partition windows, worked flawlessly, error can't mount partition , reported doesn't have format.

thank help.

i want change manually permissions /var/lib because symbolic link not directory. so, there way change permissions directory /var/lib?

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