# Fatal error after switching console

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/fatal-error-after-switching-console/4336>\
**Category:** RancherOS\
**Created:** [October 17, 2016, 1:39pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/fatal-error-after-switching-console/4336 "2016-10-17T13:39:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Lionel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Lionel](https://forums.suse.com/u/Lionel)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 1:39pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/fatal-error-after-switching-console/4336/1 "2016-10-17T13:39:06Z")

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Hello,

I’m new to RancherOS and tried to switch console to Ubuntu  
[http://docs.rancher.com/os/configuration/custom-console/](http://docs.rancher.com/os/configuration/custom-console/)

I did  
sudo ros console switch ubuntu  
But now my RancherOS system can’t start anymore. See screenshot

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/2/2d43ff093f1a2cdfac5c95e7e30c4986b115bfaf.JPG)

I wonder why this occured and how it (if it) can be repaired without reinstalling.

Best regards

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**Author:** ![denise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@denise](https://forums.suse.com/u/denise)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 4:25pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/fatal-error-after-switching-console/4336/2 "2016-10-17T16:25:01Z")

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What version of RancherOS are you running?

Also, what command did you use? and where are you running RancherOS?

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**Author:** ![Lionel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Lionel](https://forums.suse.com/u/Lionel)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/fatal-error-after-switching-console/4336/3 "2016-10-18T14:57:01Z")

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Hi Denise,

I am running RancherOS v0.6.1 on a NEC VL280 Desktop

The command I used is :

> sudo ros console switch ubuntu

Thank you for your help

Regards

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**Author:** ![joshwget](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/joshwget/32/704_2.png) [@joshwget](https://forums.suse.com/u/joshwget)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 5:07pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/fatal-error-after-switching-console/4336/4 "2016-10-18T17:07:54Z")

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This seems to be a [known Docker issue](https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/23184). I think the workaround is to remove the directory causing the issue.

It seems the fix for this is in Docker master but it won’t be part of a release until Docker 1.13.

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**Author:** ![Lionel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Lionel](https://forums.suse.com/u/Lionel)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 2:51pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/fatal-error-after-switching-console/4336/5 "2016-10-20T14:51:53Z")

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Thank you for your help.  
It works fine.

I have restarted my compyter with a live CD of Ubuntu.  
So I mounted my local disk to remove the ‘04880ffe…’ directory.

After a restart RancherOS works again.  
The only problem is that my login/password do not works, but I can connect myself ot the system in a ssh terminal.

Best Regards