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On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 06:57:54PM -0600, Cliff McAtee wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 05:07:50PM -0600, Cliff McAtee wrote: >> >>> Hi my name is Cliff McAtee >>> I am new to Debian. I installed from a disc. Went through the >>> install. every thing looked ok until trying to open. >>> starting from GRUB I was informed x.org did not install correctly. >>> All I get is a repeating 'PHY reset until link up'. >>> What am I supposed to do? Help ... >> >> Can you provide any more information? Does it ever get to a login? Who >> informed you that x.org did not install correctly? >> >> I suspect you've got a couple of things going wrong there. You might >> want to boot into single-user mode (it should be an option in the GRUB >> menu). From there you can do more trouble shooting. >> ... > booting Debian several pages roll by ending at login: okay, this is normal and good. > Then automatically switches to dialog box > "Failed to start the X server( your graphical interface). It is likely > that it is not set up correctly. Would you > like to view the X server output to diagnose the problem?" select > yes this is common and not necessarily a big deal. This particular issue can be solved a number of ways, but we need to deal with the persistent kernel messages on the screen first so that you can see what you're doing. > Then automatically starts " eth0: no IPv6 routers present this message is normal and no big deal. you can safely ignore it. > " eth1: PHY reset until link up > " eth1:PHY reset until link up > continues repeating about > every three to four seconds okay. it appears you have two network interfaces. I suggest you remove one of them for the time being. There is something more going on here, but if you are a true newbie, it could be a difficult problem to tackle. Try taking out one, and then the other, network card until this message goes away. > When selecting yes the page switches to the server output page. The > repeating message quickly covers the page in black background and white > letters obscuring the diagnostic page. what you are seeing is a kernel message that is of a high enough priority that it spills onto your console screen. You can configure those messages so that they don't interfere, but it's a little difficult to do so with all those messages scrolling by. Hopefully someone else will pipe up with a way to stop them easily. > > Then tried re-booting using the single user. Several pages roll by then > the question > ' Press enter for manual or control -d to continue.' > Control -d starts the automatic eth0: no IPv6 sequence again. > pressing Enter > clifford:~#NET: Request protocal form 10 > lo: Disabled Privacy Ext IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver > eth0: no IPv6 router present > Enter > clifford:~# tried entering login info > clifford:~# you are already logged in. That is a shell prompt. Do you get the eth1 message at that point? If not, you can do some work there to both shutdown those messages and diagnose your X problem. Start with the messages. You need to edit the file /etc/sysctl.conf. THere are probably a couple of editors available, but nano is the easiest one to use out of the box. try this command from the shell prompt nano /etc/sysctl.conf look for the line #kernel.printk = 4 4 1 7 remove the # from the front of the line, save the file and exit. Hopefully that will stop the messages. issue this command sysctl -p which should reset those kernel log parameters for you. then do ctrl-d to exit single user mode and continue on to a normal boot. At that point you can begin trouble shooting the X problem. As a starting point, try, as root, dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and work your way through configuration. If that fails to work for you, you should provide us with a copy of /var/log/Xorg.0.log which captures all the output from the X server as it tries to start up. it's a lot to tackle for a new user, but stick with it, you'll get it. This list will help you if you make a real effort. A
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