On Fri, 18 Feb, 2022 at 9:30 PM, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Fri 18 Feb 2022 at 18:13:02 (-0800), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb, 2022 at 7:41 PM, Greg Wooledge > <g...@wooledge.org<mailto:g...@wooledge.org>> wrote: > > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org<mailto:debian-user@lists.debian.org> > On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 07:21:19PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > > David Wright composed on 2022-02-18 14:19 (UTC-0600): > > > > > On Fri 18 Feb 2022 at 09:15:50 (-0800), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > >> Two problems: > > > > >> terminals went funkity late tuesday, spent Wed-Thu trying to reboot, > > >> would not go beyond the 15 second mark rebooting. Finally ran the net > > >> installer in rescue mode, copied my 122gb /home dir, on a 1.9T raid10 to > > >> a different drive and reinstalled, then copied it back, but kmail > > >> refuses to use the copied back data so I'm using FF to post this. > > > > > No idea what funkity means, > > > > nuts, cuckoo, fubar, whacky, loopy aka abnormal > > But what are the *actual* symptoms? What did Gene see? What did he > try, to troubleshoot, and what results did he get? > > > > Exactly what I wrote Greg, the boot stops at the 15 second mark, forever. I > let it set there once for several hours while I caught some shuteye. Typing /stop in my MUA shows that the line immediately above this one contains the first occurrence of the word "stop" in this post. > Oh, since we're on the subject, how do I put an option on the kernel load > line,(in grub.cfg) to make very noisy debugging so the next time I have to > reboot, I can see exactly what stopped it. That would be a great help. Add the string systemd.show_status=true Added to the default grub.cfg profile, thank you Removing quiet might get just too verbose, because I believe you can no longer scroll back like in the olden days. What I have reported was without the quiet argument, which I should have noted. Cheers, David. Cheers Gene.
