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UGH. I did an "emerge -Davu world" yesterday on my notebook (Dell i8200), |
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and everything went fine. I did the etc-updates afterwards. I even stopped |
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X-windows and started again and it launched just fine. I worked the rest of |
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the day and halted as usual. Today when I turned on my notebook my startup |
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doesn't complete?! |
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I don't have networking (net.eth0 or net.ath0) on by default because for |
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whatever lame-ass reason, if there is no network available or plugged in, |
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Gentoo isn't smart enough (like RedHat or WindowsXP) to just continue on... |
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Anyways, the point being I can't ssh in. |
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The screen looks a bit different today too... I run frame-buffer 1600x1200, |
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so at the top is the normal colorized: |
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* Setting system clock to hardware clock [Local Time]... |
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[ OK ] |
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But then after that line, they look like this, but in only gray: |
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* Starting service hdparm |
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* Starting service pcmcia |
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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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Notice how they don't have the [ OK ] on the far right edge like all the |
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ones above this point, and they USED to be that way yesterday. The only |
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bracketted indicatiors are the [ !! ] ones and there are only a few: I8k |
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service, lisa service, and nntpd -- nothing that is critical to boot. |
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There are about 40 more lines of "* Starting/Service blah" and it gets all |
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the way down to: |
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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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Then that's it. No login prompt. If I switch VTs, I just have 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 parameters not |
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needed to boot. Still no joy. I did notice that the [ !! ] is lined on the |
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far right of the screen. I'm guessing that's the 80 column 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 "* Starting |
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service rmnologin" |
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So. I'm fscked at the moment. Ideas? |
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