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I am using Ubuntu 18.04 in VirtualBox, which has been working for 6 months or so. I am now getting problems when trying to boot into Ubuntu. I get an error message as seen in the photo. I've followed posts saying to type fsck/dev/sda1. After doing so I get onto my Ubuntu desktop, but if I try to open an application, the screen freezes and puts me back into the log in screen.

I've made a short video showing all of this: https://youtu.be/o4TlD7i3PD0

Jerome Samuels-Clarke
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  • Does this answer your question? [The root filesystem requires manual fsck](https://askubuntu.com/questions/890501/the-root-filesystem-requires-manual-fsck) – Soren A Nov 18 '20 at 08:48

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It's probably a hardware failure.

You can try starting in single user, check with debugfs -w /dev/sda1 and then lsdel to see the deleted inodes.

Also hdparm -T /dev/sda to see if everything runs smoothly.

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Serve Laurijssen
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