Constant Initframs boot

[Meet8939]

I have installed Linux (Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS) since I was having some problem with Windows, even the old ones like Windows 7. I have updated it completely and installed pop theme according to my liking with some extensions to make it look like Windows for easy transition. I had some problems with hard disk for which I gave my PC to an engineer for repair, he said that my HDD is fine but he found some minor problems with PC's PSU and advised to change it, but I want to do complete do over of my PC so I turned it down. It has been a few days since installation and I have been getting into initfram at boot up in atleast 1 out of 3 boot ups. It shows me to run fsck command manually, after the commands completion I boot it up and it boots up finely but now it has started to slow down. So I wanted to know can a faulty PSU be a reason for this as well as the problems I was having with my Windows which was slowing down too.

[Guest]

Does it happen randomly?

That can mean the HDD could have some problems, or either the filesystem, but could even be that the HDD got power disconnected so can be also a PSU issue

[KarathKasun]

Are you shutting down properly?

[Meet8939]

17 minutes ago, KarathKasun said:

Are you shutting down properly?

It shutdowns properly, but when it happens i am not able to boot it just get stuck at purple type screen and i will be forced to make a hard shutdown ( it all happens at booting).

[KarathKasun]

3 minutes ago, Meet8939 said:

It shutdowns properly, but when it happens i am not able to boot it just get stuck at purple type screen and i will be forced to make a hard shutdown ( it all happens at booting).

Sounds like a device driver problem or a swap partition problem.  I have this issue on my Ubuntu laptop if a USB drive with a swap partition is plugged in.

The reboot from the purple screen is what is causing the boot problem.  Check your logs or switch to verbose booting so you can see what is causing the problem that freezes the boot process.

[KarathKasun]

Oh, the "stuck in boot" scenario can also be caused if the network isnt coming up properly.  I had this problem on another laptop unless a ethernet cable was plugged in, it gets stuck waiting for the interface to come up.  It should continue booting after 3-5 minutes if this is the case.

[Meet8939]

38 minutes ago, KarathKasun said:

Oh, the "stuck in boot" scenario can also be caused if the network isnt coming up properly.  I had this problem on another laptop unless a ethernet cable was plugged in, it gets stuck waiting for the interface to come up.  It should continue booting after 3-5 minutes if this is the case.

I have a ethernet cable constantly connected to my PC all the timw, so can the reason you could be it.

[Meet8939]

49 minutes ago, KarathKasun said:

Sounds like a device driver problem or a swap partition problem.  I have this issue on my Ubuntu laptop if a USB drive with a swap partition is plugged in.

The reboot from the purple screen is what is causing the boot problem.  Check your logs or switch to verbose booting so you can see what is causing the problem that freezes the boot process.

What are you saying, i am newbie and pretty new to this things can you elaborate please.

[KarathKasun]

Do the steps in the solution posted here, it will show you the boot messages as the system boots.  This will allow you to see where the boot is failing/getting stuck.

 

https://askubuntu.com/questions/25022/how-to-enable-boot-messages-to-be-printed-on-screen-during-boot-up

[Meet8939]

30 minutes ago, KarathKasun said:

Do the steps in the solution posted here, it will show you the boot messages as the system boots.  This will allow you to see where the boot is failing/getting stuck.

 

https://askubuntu.com/questions/25022/how-to-enable-boot-messages-to-be-printed-on-screen-during-boot-up

OK i will try it just as I get home and let you know

 

[Meet8939]

3 hours ago, KarathKasun said:

Do the steps in the solution posted here, it will show you the boot messages as the system boots.  This will allow you to see where the boot is failing/getting stuck.

 

https://askubuntu.com/questions/25022/how-to-enable-boot-messages-to-be-printed-on-screen-during-boot-up

It was not letting me change the commands with 'e' and when I booted it again did the same thing so I ran the command fsck again from Initframs where it took me and them I was able to change it and it booted correctly with everything being showed OK. 

Does it help identifying or should I make it permanent and try it with 2-3 boot ups?