Questions tagged [busybox]
BusyBox provides several stripped-down Unix tools in a single executable. It runs in a variety of POSIX environments such as Linux, Android, FreeBSD and others, such as proprietary kernels, although many of the tools it provides are designed to work with interfaces provided by the Linux kernel.
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Root file system requires manual fsck [duplicate]
Whenever I switch on Ubuntu I always see the following message.
(Initramfs): /dev/sda1 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
Inodes that were a part of a corrupted orphan linked lost ...
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Ubuntu 15.10 - "BusyBox built-in shell (initramfs)" on every boot
Every time we reboot the Ubuntu PC, it's showing this screen, and not going anywhere, even when we typed exit.
How to get rid of this nightmare permanently, so that it never ever happens?
BusyBox ...
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Ubuntu16.04 boots into initramfs
Ubuntu doesn't boot up and it goes into initramfs. I am writing from a live CD trial session. what should I do?
I understand that the boot flow is broken and that when the files from root are going ...
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How do I do a manual fsck?
My pc doesn't want to start saying:
/dev/mmcblk0p2p cointais a file system with errors, check forced.
Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found.
/dev/mmcblk0p2: UNEXPECTED ...
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What exactly is Busybox / Ash?
What are BusyBox and ash?
I have never seen a good explanation to what they are.
I've used ash and I know it's a Linux shell, but I would like to get a real understanding of it.
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Using busybox's find to delete recursively some files
How can I find and delete all .jpg? -delete doesn't seem to work...
[/share/Multimedia/Music] # find . -name '*.jpg' -delete
BusyBox v1.01 (2015.01.25-18:47+0000) multi-call binary
Usage: find [...
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Busybox initramfs again and again
I have ubuntu 16.04 installed.. whenever I boot the system and try to run ubuntu, busy box pops up. I do a manual check ---fsck -yf /dev/sda12--- and then reboot.. now the ubuntu boots properly but ...
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Ubuntu Stuck at BusyBox `[Firmware Bug] : TSC_DEADLINE disabled due to Errata; please update microcode to version: 0x52 (or later)` [duplicate]
I am having problems booting my Ubuntu after an attempted hardware fix today. My laptop was working fine but had some minor issues, so we tried a different motherboard, which had a major issue, so we ...
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Full System encryption with LUKS on headless server - unlock with dropbear and busybox. How?
I encrypted a headless server with cryptsetup/LUKS.
2 HDDs with 512 MB /boot on /dev/md0 and 1,61 TB LUKS encrypted /dev/md1 with LVM containing /, swap, and others.
I installed dropbear (and busybox ...
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How to switch to English in BusyBox?
my computer goes to busybox and (apparently) the keyboard is stuck on hebrew, therefore, i can not enter lowercase english letters and hebrew coms out as squares, how can I switch to English?
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Can not boot! initramfs error!
I've had Ubuntu for a while and it'd been working fine till now. Every time I try to boot I get this message and I can not go any further:
BusyBox v1.17.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.17.1-10ubuntu1) built-in shell (...
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Stuck at Busybox v1.18.4 (ubuntu 1:1.18.4-2ubuntu2) built-in shell (ash) Enter help for a list of commands
I've installed win 7 and ubuntu 11.04. I was trying to upgrade my machine to 11.10.
It was all good, it installed all the upgrades and asked me to restart.
After restarting I got the login screen ...
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ubuntu-server installation: is there a way to change the font size in BusyBox?
when installing ubuntu-server on a new laptop the default font of the installer and the BusyBox console is extremely small. is there a way to make it bigger while the system is running from a boot ....
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"more" command doesn't work as expected in initramfs
I'm trying to watch dmesg output in (initramfs) but command output has more lines than a screen. So I see only the end of dmesg output.
Busybox v1.21.1 has more command, but dmesg | more somehow doesn'...
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Busybox: how to quit Busybox and/or shut down computer
I am on a terminal looking ("pre-boot") screen, in a utility/program called Busybox.
By pre-boot, I mean that I am not booted into the GUI of an operating system. My computer loaded this ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 won't load - hangs at Busybox v1.18.5 / initramfs
I want to start by saying that I am very new with Linux (about 1 month using it). I have had no problems up until now.
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 from a Toshiba laptop with 250 GB hard drive and 3 GB ...
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Upgraded from 10.04 to 12.04 and grub drops to BusyBox prompt without error
I updated a working server from 10.04 to 12.04.1 today. Everything upgraded without error. However, there is an odd issue with grub and the new kernel (3.2.0-30-generic). After grub boots, the system ...
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Dropping to Busybox initramfs shell on boot --- volume group not found
since i am fighting for 3 days already to solve this issue that keeps us from working normally, i surrendered and try to get help here.
I have Ubuntu Studio installed for some months and it is setup ...
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Unable to boot Live CD with hard drive attached
I am attempting to fix an OS drive that had some problems after installing updates. The hard drive is currently not bootable. My main goal right now is just to get some data off this drive.
I have a ...
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Failed to claim resource error
I booted up my Linux Ubuntu. It popped first two messages, then kubuntu booting screen, then goes back to some "Boxy" program. The error messages above are:
Platform MSFT0101:00 Failed to claim ...
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How do I get past BusyBox?
I have a problem with my Ubuntu installation. When I go to start Ubuntu from UEFI, I get the purple screen and choose Ubuntu (as normal), but then I am greeted with BusyBox and it won't let me get to ...
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Ubuntu not booting, thrown into Busybox
I get this problem even in recovery mode, even with older versions of Ubuntu that are still in the Grub menu. I ran the default repair of the Boot Repair (as recommended in this question), to no avail....
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How to use pagination in BusyBox when ‘more’ is dysfunctional?
So I’m dropped in Busybox and need to do some work here (no pools, datasets and encrypted root) but more isn’t working properly.
I need to go through the config files but I have access to a few ...
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How do I run udhcpc manually to request it to renew DHCP lease?
I'm using udhcpc which is a part of Busybox v1.24.1 on Ubuntu 12.04.
I have to renew DHCP lease without releasing current IP and without requesting new IP.
In other words I want udhcpc to send ...
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Ubuntu freezes at the purple screen ,but if I force re-boot , it shows BusyBox shell with initramfs. Happens 80% time [closed]
I tried both Ubuntu 11.04,11.10 & 12.04. It frequently freezes at the purple screen (the screen before the 5-dot ubuntu screen) I wait for 10-15 mins and when I force re-boot, it ends up showing ...
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Kernel panic at boot with BusyBox and init error messages [closed]
How do I reboot my computer?
A friend of mine started my computer over from scratch, then installed Ubuntu on my computer.
But, when my computer ran out of power and I charged it, the computer ...
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'Read-only file system' locked me out, won't boot
I'm running Linux mint kde on a macbook air. Today I logged in and tried to open Firefox, it wouldn't open. I did some troubleshooting and I found I couldn't modify files. It said it was a 'read-only' ...
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How to set busybox as login shell of a user?
I customized my BusyBox to include some specific applets. Now I want a user login to BusyBox as its shell. I mean when that when user enters its username and passwords, he will bed redirected to an ...
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Stuck in initramfs at boot [duplicate]
Screen text reads:
Error reading block 23108274 (input/output error).
/dev/sda5: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; run fsck MANUALLY
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fsck excited with status code 4
done
Failure: file system check of ...
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After entering BusyBox during Ubuntu Server 14.04 install process, how can I leave it?
I entered the BusyBox console from the 'Select Language' screen using using Alt + F2 and now I want to return to the install process. If I type 'exit' I can get back to 'Please press Enter to ...
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Error during boot.:encrypted source does not exist
Does anyone know how to fix this?
I have access to busybox after exit it says:
/Scripts/local-top/cryptroot: line 218: not found.
ALERT! encrypted source device uuid=longstring Does not ...
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Ubuntu install saying not enough disk space
I have a Dell XPS which had Ubuntu on it but it started playing up so booted from USB in the hope to install a fresh version but I now get the message saying
You need at least 8.6 GB disk space to ...
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How to replace GNU core utilities with Busybox
I was wondering: is it possible to replace the GNU coreutils with Busybox in Ubuntu? Is that safe? Could I replace something else (like binutils and bash) with Busybox? How much free disk space would ...
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BusyBox v1.21.1 error
As I am new to the forum, I don't know where to ask this question, or even if there is a particular place to ask the question. Anyway, I have recently burned ubuntu 14.04.2 to a DVD and rebooted my ...
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stuck in busybox after update
I should start out by saying that I am not very tech savvy and have done my best to understand what is going on here from reading other people's posts and have fumbled my way through several attempted ...
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BusyBox at 17.04
So I have dual boot (win + ubuntu), I shrinked Ubuntu partition, and added these GB's to mine Win partition (through windows disk management), now it shows busybox. Gparted made everything ...
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/dev/disk/by-uuid/XXXXX does not exist dropping to a shell [duplicate]
I have just installed ubuntu 14.04 and when I reboot and remove the media I get the
Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
-Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
-check rootdelay= (did the ...
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Squares instead of letters at BusyBox
Instead of booting, the computer hoes to BusyBox, I can only type capital letters in BusyBox. Small letters come out as squares. I cannot send any commands.
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Can't boot Ubuntu partition after replacing the motherboard
Computer specs:
Model: Dell XPS15 9550
Processor: Intel i7-6700HQ
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
RAM: 16GB
Storage: 1TB SSD
Dual boot Ubuntu 18.04/Windows 10
After replacing the motherboard of the ...
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Why are some busybox commands in interactive mode not available in a chrooted environment?
I try to setup a most minimal chrooted environment using busybox.
I created a directory 'testRoot' and copied 'busybox' into it.
from this directory I execute:
sudo chroot ./ /busybox sh
now I have ...
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Error while trying to run Ubuntu installed on a pen-drive
I installed Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 LTS on my pen-drive (32 GB USB 3.0), using this installation procedure. When I try to boot from that pen-drive, the selection screen appears. I select the normal Ubuntu ...
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Error with update-initramfs
I am having trouble when running update-initramfs in an Ubuntu 14.04 server.
It all started trying to recover a non booting system.
From a chroot console (from an Ubuntu 14.04.3 desktop CD), when I ...
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Ubuntu BusyBox initramfs Error 14.04
Suddenly after shutting down Ubuntu and when reopenning, I get prompted to one shell of BusyBox. I only had a set of options in help there.
I tried to follow this solution: Boot drops to a (initramfs)...
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BusyBox: dropping to build-in shell: initramfs problem with encrypted hard drive
I tried to do an upgrade from 13.10 to 14.04 on my laptop. When I came back a bit later, the machine had crashed. I restarted it and it had got in a pickle halfway through the upgrade process. I did ...
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"BusyBox initramfs" prompt while attempting to install from live CD on 2nd HDD [closed]
I've created a partition in ext3 on my second HDD to install Linux.
However, when I come to boot the CD, I get directed to a BusyBox prompt with no other choice than help.
Other topics I've read on ...
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Ubuntu Server 12.04 start fails after update
I did an system update on Ubuntu Server 12.04, which requested a reboot.
Since that, the system never reaches the login. It hangs on:
mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or ...
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Problem starting Ubuntu 12.04
I have an Acer Aspire 7730 laptop (Acer Aspire 7730). After a power failure it shows me only the GNU GRUB menu with these options:
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.0.24 - generic
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.0.24 - ...
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Ubuntu 17.10 doesn't boot. Plymouth and intramfs prompt error [duplicate]
I recently installed some Plymouth themes by using this command:
sudo apt-get install plymouth-theme-*
Then I changed theme to ubuntu-budgie using this command and selecting the theme:
sudo update-...
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Is my disk dead? I cannot boot! [duplicate]
I have an 8-year-old dual boot laptop, but it won't start Ubuntu or Windows. When selecting Ubuntu, I get a BusyBox, that mostly says:
failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
blk_update_request: I/O error, ...
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Ubuntu will not boot into busybox for remote LUKS decryption using dropbear
I want to unlock an encrypted LVM at startup on a headless Ubuntu 16.04 server. This is a fairly fresh install. The only installs I have done are mate-desktop, xrdp, dropbear, and busybox. My client ...
