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

  • @tal
    2•9 months ago

    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.

      • @tal
        2•9 months ago

        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.

          • @tal
            2•9 months ago

            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.

            • @mariah@feddit.rocksOP
              1•9 months ago

              Sorry i was using sh. This is the output

              fsck: error 2 (No such file or directory) while executing fsck.ext2 for /dev/sdd1
              • @tal
                2•9 months ago

                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?

                  • @tal
                    2•9 months ago

                    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.