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From: Andrew Gaydenko <a@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System doesn't finish booting. Gentoo took a crap on my face.
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 21:35:29
Message-Id: 200507220131.57941@goldspace.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] System doesn't finish booting. Gentoo took a crap on my face. by Daevid Vincent
1 Probably http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99691
2
3 ======= On Friday 22 July 2005 01:16, Daevid Vincent wrote: =======
4 UGH. I did an "emerge -Davu world" yesterday on my notebook (Dell i8200),
5 and everything went fine. I did the etc-updates afterwards. I even stopped
6 X-windows and started again and it launched just fine. I worked the rest of
7 the day and halted as usual. Today when I turned on my notebook my startup
8 doesn't complete?!
9
10 I don't have networking (net.eth0 or net.ath0) on by default because for
11 whatever lame-ass reason, if there is no network available or plugged in,
12 Gentoo isn't smart enough (like RedHat or WindowsXP) to just continue on...
13 Anyways, the point being I can't ssh in.
14
15 The screen looks a bit different today too... I run frame-buffer 1600x1200,
16 so at the top is the normal colorized:
17
18 * Setting system clock to hardware clock [Local Time]...
19 [ OK ]
20
21 But then after that line, they look like this, but in only gray:
22
23 * Starting service hdparm
24 * Starting service pcmcia
25 [ !! ]
26
27 * FAILED to start service pcmcia!
28 * Starting service keymaps
29 * Starting service bootmisc
30 ...
31 Notice how they don't have the [ OK ] on the far right edge like all the
32 ones above this point, and they USED to be that way yesterday. The only
33 bracketted indicatiors are the [ !! ] ones and there are only a few: I8k
34 service, lisa service, and nntpd -- nothing that is critical to boot.
35
36 There are about 40 more lines of "* Starting/Service blah" and it gets all
37 the way down to:
38 ...
39 * Service aumix started OK
40 * Service postfix started OK
41 * Service coldplug started OK
42 * Service shorewall started OK
43
44 Then that's it. No login prompt. If I switch VTs, I just have a blinking
45 cursor at the top.
46
47 I can only CTRL+ALT+DEL and that does a reboot.
48
49 My kernel is the same I've used for many months: 2.6.10-r6
50
51 I've gone into grub via the menu and taken off all kernel parameters not
52 needed to boot. Still no joy. I did notice that the [ !! ] is lined on the
53 far right of the screen. I'm guessing that's the 80 column point. I also
54 added 'single' to kernel boot string in grub, but that didn't help.
55
56 Looking through the services starting up, there is one called "* Starting
57 service rmnologin"
58
59 So. I'm fscked at the moment. Ideas?
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