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After installing Ubuntu 14 life was good, till one day I had to do a hard off due to a program running a muck. Now whenever I start Ubuntu it says:

error: environment block too small
press any key to continue...

Most of the time it shows some script and loads the Ubuntu GUI login screen and works fine. But sometimes it loads the terminal interface for login, but once I reboot and it reloads it still says the block error but loads the GUI fine. Is there any way to fix this as it is not causing errors, but rather a frequent annoyance. I appreciate the help and thank you in advance.
 
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stillblue
Perhaps easier ways to accomplish what Ijack recommends and I agree that you should check your file system, is to boot in recovery mode at the grub splash and choose fsck. Or you could boot to the dvd/flash you used to install ubuntu and open a terminal, ctl+alt+t, and type sudo fdisk -l and identify your hard drive partition where you installed ubuntu something like /dev/sda5. Once you have that then type sudo fsck /dev/sda? where ? is the partition number you want checked. If it finds errors it will ask permission to fix them, it's so polite. Chances are you will say yes to all, I've never said no. Remember, you can't check a file system already opened.
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Perhaps easier ways to accomplish what Ijack recommends and I agree that you should check your file system, is to boot in recovery mode at the grub splash and choose fsck. Or you could boot to the dvd/flash you used to install ubuntu and open a terminal, ctl+alt+t, and type sudo fdisk -l and identify your hard drive partition where you installed ubuntu something like /dev/sda5. Once you have that then type sudo fsck /dev/sda? where ? is the partition number you want checked. If it finds errors it will ask permission to fix them, it's so polite. Chances are you will say yes to all, I've never said no. Remember, you can't check a file system already opened.
 
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Firewire Pro

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tried to reinstall grub but every time I try the:
sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
sudo mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
commands it says that the mount point doesn't exist.


 
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