I’m not sure if this is the best community to post in, but I just bought a used computer and slotted in an RX480 as the GPU. I installed KDE Neon 5.27 on it, and it worked flawlessly for 2 days.
Then, even though it was working earlier today, it slept and then would not wake up. So I turned off the power and turned it back on again, and was greeted with this error screen:
The only prior error message I’d gotten from the system was when I tried to install wine for one application, it told me some packages weren’t up to date, without a way to fix it. I can enter the BIOS just fine.
What is going on? How do I fix this?
How do I edit /etc/fstab if I’m not even able to boot the system? Or am I already booted in the system, just in a CLI environment?
You’re most likely booted, otherwise you might need a live USB. Hopefully, the system isn’t in read-only mode. What I’d recommend doing is:
cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.backupTo make a copy once. Then,
nano /etc/fstabto run nano, a basic CLI editor. You can use the arrow keys to navigate and type freely in it. The hints like^Oshown on the bottom mean ctrl+o.You’d use the arrow keys to go down to the line that probably says
/dev/md0 /mnt/raid morecrap, put a#in front of it, press ctrl+w then enter to save. If that worked, ctrl+x to exit and try arebootagain.Obviously can’t promise this is “the” error preventing the system from booting, but it’s generally a good idea to disable broken stuff like this to get the system working again, then fix it from there. Hopefully, this does the trick. Your RAID setup will not be activated on reboot after you do this but it’s not going to permanently delete data or anything.
I used nano to edit /etc/fstab and commented out the last line and the system booted into GUI mode!
This leaves me with some questions: