Re: Stretch installation: thumb drive recognized as /dev/sda

2017-09-27 Thread David Wright
I've assumed the OP is not subscribed to the list. On Wed 06 Sep 2017 at 16:07:55 (+0300), gentoo...@runbox.com wrote: > I installed Stretch on my Thinkpad from a USB flash drive. Only after the > installation, during the first boot did I notice that something was wrong. > GRUB > failed to load t

Re: Stretch installation: thumb drive recognized as /dev/sda

2017-09-06 Thread David Christensen
On 09/06/17 06:07, gentoo...@runbox.com wrote: I installed Stretch on my Thinkpad from a USB flash drive. Only after the installation, during the first boot did I notice that something was wrong. GRUB failed to load the kernel and after a short diagnosis I learned that for some reason, the Debian

Re: Stretch Installation

2016-10-04 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 1:06 AM, Michael Milliman wrote: > > The first of the problems with the Stretch installation rendered it > unbootable, though I had a fair idea as to what that problem was and was > able to get the system to the point where it will boot and allow logins. > What I would like

Re: Stretch Installation

2016-10-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 02:01:30AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Michael Milliman composed on 2016-10-04 00:06 (UTC-0500): > > >...who do I need to be in touch with and in what forum to participate > >in the development process as outlined above? > > Debian is mainly about packaging, not "developin

Re: Stretch Installation

2016-10-03 Thread Felix Miata
Michael Milliman composed on 2016-10-04 00:06 (UTC-0500): ...who do I need to be in touch with and in what forum to participate in the development process as outlined above? Debian is mainly about packaging, not "developing" software, so the best answer might depend on which DM/DE/desktop, CP

Re: Stretch installation boots to read only(SOLVED)

2015-12-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Gary Roach wrote: > That said, what caused this problem. I did not edit the fstab file > during upgrade and the system was working just fine before. Is this a > bug in the upgrade process? As far as I know the upgrade process does not touch /etc/fstab. So my guess is that this entry was alrea

Re: Stretch installation boots to read only(SOLVED)

2015-12-22 Thread Gary Roach
Thanks all; The corrections in fstab fixed all of the problems. Thanks for the tip to get rid of ConsoleKit. That said, what caused this problem. I did not edit the fstab file during upgrade and the system was working just fine before. Is this a bug in the upgrade process? I have seen several o

consolekit in jessie (Re: Stretch installation boots to read only)

2015-12-22 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 22.12.2015 um 08:57 schrieb Gary Roach: > ● console-kit-log-system-start.service loaded failed failed Console This is an unrelated comment, but since I've seen consolekit in the list of services: With jessie, that service is in the vast majority of cases not necessary anymore. Unfortunately it

Re: Stretch installation boots to read only

2015-12-22 Thread anxiousmac
On Tuesday, 22 December 2015 08:00:05 UTC, Gary Roach wrote: > OK > > systemctl --failed gives > root@supercrunch:/etc# systemctl --failed >UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB DESCRIPTION > ● anacron.service loaded failed failed Run anacron jobs > ● apa

Re: Stretch installation boots to read only

2015-12-22 Thread Felix Miata
Gary Roach composed on 2015-12-21 23:57 (UTC-0800): > # > # / was on /dev/sda1 during installation > /dev/sda1 /ext4 rw noatime 0 1 Invalid, so due to the bad entry, / gets mounted ro. You cannot have whitespace except where the header line shows you.

Re: Stretch installation boots to read only

2015-12-21 Thread Gary Roach
OK systemctl --failed gives root@supercrunch:/etc# systemctl --failed UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB DESCRIPTION ● anacron.service loaded failed failed Run anacron jobs ● apache2.service loaded failed failed LSB: Apache2 web ser

Re: Stretch installation boots to read only

2015-12-21 Thread Sven Hartge
Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 12/21/2015 07:19 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Gary Roach wrote: >>> I re-wrote the line to read /dev/sda1/ ext4 rw, noatime0 >>> 1 and commented out the old line. The error still happens at the >>> same place. >> Without you providing the exact error nobody will

Re: Stretch installation boots to read only

2015-12-21 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/21/2015 07:19 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Gary Roach wrote: I Just upgraded from jessie to stretch. I needed a piece of software that wasn't available in jessie. Since then, my system boots to a command line prompt. Since /dev/sda1 has been mounted ro, Xwindows doesn't start. I have to log in

Re: Stretch installation boots to read only

2015-12-21 Thread Sven Hartge
Gary Roach wrote: > I Just upgraded from jessie to stretch. I needed a piece of software > that wasn't available in jessie. Since then, my system boots to a > command line prompt. Since /dev/sda1 has been mounted ro, Xwindows > doesn't start. I have to log in as root, run mount -o remount,rw