Ubuntu died and wont reboot

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My Asus just stopped might be the battery, but now it wont boot ubuntu,not sure how i got here but after alot of scrolling text I got the following message,

Error reading block 27263921 (attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read) while getting next inode rom scan.

/dev/sda2: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
        (i.e., without -a or -p options)
fsck exited with status code 4

The root filesystem on /dev/sda2 requires a manual fsck

I would be grateful of any help, what do i write?

Beyond Kaz' immediate solution, this smells like a hardware failure. See How do I check the integrity of a storage medium (hard disk or flash drive)? — David Foerster, Oct 02 '16 at 08:04

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 27 '16 at 15:58

Your system is already telling you exactly what to do:

/dev/sda2: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. (i.e., without -a or -p options) fsck exited with status code 4
The root filesystem on /dev/sda2 requires a manual fsck

Go get your Ubuntu Live USB and boot into it. From there:

Open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T)
Run sudo blkid | grep ext and try to find your drive. It should return one line, containing an ID like /dev/sdb2 (replace this with whatever you got).
Using the ID you got in step 2, run sudo fsck /dev/sdb2. If it returns any errors, you can run sudo fsck /dev/sdb2 -a to actially fix your filesystem.

Ubuntu died and wont reboot

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