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Bless you my son. That was the solution. |
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I had "baselayout ~x86" in my /etc/portage/package.keywords file, so that's |
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how I got this broken version. How it got there in the first place is a bit |
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uncertain, but it has been commented out. |
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Thank your Andrew! |
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> Probably http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99691 |
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> ======= On Friday 22 July 2005 01:16, Daevid Vincent wrote: ======= |
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> UGH. I did an "emerge -Davu world" yesterday on my notebook |
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> (Dell i8200), |
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> and everything went fine. I did the etc-updates afterwards. I |
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> even stopped |
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> X-windows and started again and it launched just fine. I |
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> worked the rest of |
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> the day and halted as usual. Today when I turned on my |
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> notebook my startup |
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> doesn't complete?! |
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> |
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> I don't have networking (net.eth0 or net.ath0) on by default |
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> because for |
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> whatever lame-ass reason, if there is no network available or |
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> plugged in, |
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> Gentoo isn't smart enough (like RedHat or WindowsXP) to just |
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> continue on... |
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> Anyways, the point being I can't ssh in. |
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> |
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> The screen looks a bit different today too... I run |
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> frame-buffer 1600x1200, |
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> so at the top is the normal colorized: |
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> |
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> * Setting system clock to hardware clock [Local Time]... |
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> [ OK ] |
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> |
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> But then after that line, they look like this, but in only gray: |
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> |
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> * Starting service hdparm |
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> * Starting service pcmcia |
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> [ !! ] |
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> |
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> * FAILED to start service pcmcia! |
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> * Starting service keymaps |
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> * Starting service bootmisc |
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> ... |
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> Notice how they don't have the [ OK ] on the far right edge |
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> like all the |
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> ones above this point, and they USED to be that way |
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> yesterday. The only |
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> bracketted indicatiors are the [ !! ] ones and there are only |
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> a few: I8k |
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> service, lisa service, and nntpd -- nothing that is critical to boot. |
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> |
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> There are about 40 more lines of "* Starting/Service blah" |
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> and it gets all |
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> the way down to: |
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> ... |
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> * Service aumix started OK |
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> * Service postfix started OK |
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> * Service coldplug started OK |
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> * Service shorewall started OK |
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> |
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> Then that's it. No login prompt. If I switch VTs, I just have |
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> a blinking |
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> cursor at the top. |
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> I can only CTRL+ALT+DEL and that does a reboot. |
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> My kernel is the same I've used for many months: 2.6.10-r6 |
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> I've gone into grub via the menu and taken off all kernel |
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> parameters not |
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> needed to boot. Still no joy. I did notice that the [ !! ] is |
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> lined on the |
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> far right of the screen. I'm guessing that's the 80 column |
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> point. I also |
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> added 'single' to kernel boot string in grub, but that didn't help. |
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> Looking through the services starting up, there is one called |
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> "* Starting |
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> service rmnologin" |
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> So. I'm fscked at the moment. Ideas? |
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