Re: can't reboot

2016-11-08 Thread Anthony Baldwin
On 11/08/2016 04:16 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: On Tue, 2016-11-08 at 15:56 -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: On 11/08/2016 02:57 PM, Anthony Baldwin wrote: I've been hvaving trouble for over a month, I can't boot the same system twice. I replaced a hardrive because it was suggested the problem was

Re: can't reboot

2016-11-08 Thread Tony Baldwin
On 11/08/2016 02:57 PM, Anthony Baldwin wrote: I've been hvaving trouble for over a month, I can't boot the same system twice. I replaced a hardrive because it was suggested the problem was a hard drive, but now, with a brand spanking new hard drive, any time Ihave to halt the system and boot i

Re: Can't reboot nor shutdown

2014-09-02 Thread Bzzzz
On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 23:26:32 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: > Can't help you with the error message but to shutdown, have you tried > the SysRq key? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key for > details. > > This often gives you all kinds of ways of getting around an otherwise > frozen system

Re: Can't reboot nor shutdown

2014-09-02 Thread Gary Dale
On 02/09/14 10:49 PM, B wrote: Hi list, on my latptop (lightdm + XFCE) I can't reboot nor shutdown properly; each command ends with a black screen with a blinking cursor at top left and that's all. I waited several times more than 5 minutes, hoping some timeout was there, but nope; stopping

Re: Can't reboot after power failure (RAID problem?)

2011-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4d49816b.1040...@alcor.concordia.ca>, David Gaudine wrote: >I have one more question, just out of curiousity so bottom priority. >Why does this work? mdadm.conf is in the initramfs which is in /boot >which is on /dev/md0, but /dev/md0 doesn't exist until the arrays are >assembled, which requir

Re: Can't reboot after power failure (RAID problem?)

2011-02-02 Thread David Gaudine
On 11-01-31 8:47 PM, Andrew Reid wrote: The easy way out is to boot from a rescue disk, fix the mdadm.conf file, rebuild the initramfs, and reboot. The Real Sysadmin way is to start the array by hand from inside the initramfs. You want "mdadm -A /dev/md0" (or possibly "mdadm -A -u") to s

Re: Can't reboot after power failure (RAID problem?)

2011-02-01 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:38 AM, David Gaudine wrote: > On 11-01-31 8:47 PM, Andrew Reid wrote: >> On Monday 31 January 2011 10:51:04 dav...@alcor.concordia.ca wrote: >>> >>> I posted in a panic and left out a lot of details.  I'm using Squeeze, >>> and >>> set up the system about a month ago, so

Re: Can't reboot after power failure (RAID problem?)

2011-02-01 Thread David Gaudine
On 11-01-31 8:47 PM, Andrew Reid wrote: On Monday 31 January 2011 10:51:04 dav...@alcor.concordia.ca wrote: I posted in a panic and left out a lot of details. I'm using Squeeze, and set up the system about a month ago, so there have been some upgrades. I wonder if maybe the kernel or Grub was

Re: Can't reboot after power failure (RAID problem?)

2011-02-01 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, dav...@alcor.concordia.ca a écrit : > My system went down because of a power failure, and now it won't start. I > use RAID 1, and I don't know if that's related to the problem. The screen > shows the following. > > Loading, please wait... > Gave up waiting for rood device. Common proble

Re: Can't reboot after power failure (RAID problem?)

2011-01-31 Thread Andrew Reid
On Monday 31 January 2011 10:51:04 dav...@alcor.concordia.ca wrote: > I posted in a panic and left out a lot of details. I'm using Squeeze, and > set up the system about a month ago, so there have been some upgrades. I > wonder if maybe the kernel or Grub was upgraded and I neglected to install >

Re: Can't reboot after power failure (RAID problem?)

2011-01-31 Thread davidg
I posted in a panic and left out a lot of details. I'm using Squeeze, and set up the system about a month ago, so there have been some upgrades. I wonder if maybe the kernel or Grub was upgraded and I neglected to install Grub again, but I would expect it to automatically be reinstalled on at lea

RE: Can't reboot after update

2008-07-29 Thread Zembower, Kevin
This is so strange. Here's the email I started to write: == Thanks to all the folks who replied, both on and off the list. I'm making some progress, but I'm still not out of the woods and still need assistance. This system uses LILO 22.6.1. I wasn't able to use Tab to bring

Re: Can't reboot after update

2008-07-29 Thread ss11223
On Jul 29, 10:50 am, "Zembower, Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm hoping someone can help me with this urgent problem. I just applied > the updates that became available in the last couple days to my Debian > etch host running on a Dell PowerEdge 2450 server. This included an > update to the

Re: Can't reboot: "cannot open /mnt/etc/fstab: no such file "

2004-10-25 Thread Adam Bogacki
H. S. wrote: Apparently, _Adam Bogacki_, on 25/10/04 06:31,typed: Apologies for the alarm. I've managed to fix it - at least until the next reboot (sickly grin). Cheers, Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think you should also mention the steps you took to fix it so that others who hit this post

Re: Can't reboot: "cannot open /mnt/etc/fstab: no such file "

2004-10-25 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Adam Bogacki_, on 25/10/04 06:31,typed: Apologies for the alarm. I've managed to fix it - at least until the next reboot (sickly grin). Cheers, Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think you should also mention the steps you took to fix it so that others who hit this post in their sear

Re: Can't reboot: "cannot open /mnt/etc/fstab: no such file "

2004-10-25 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Adam Bogacki_, on 25/10/04 06:31,typed: Apologies for the alarm. I've managed to fix it - at least until the next reboot (sickly grin). Cheers, Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think you should also mention the steps you took to fix it so that others who hit this post in their sear

Re: Can't reboot: "cannot open /mnt/etc/fstab: no such file "

2004-10-25 Thread Adam Bogacki
Apologies for the alarm. I've managed to fix it - at least until the next reboot (sickly grin). Cheers, Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Can't reboot or halt from gdm (FIXED)

2002-03-12 Thread Todd Myhre
Oki wrote: > >> I've set up gdm on a new laptop but the System menu does not >> seem to work correctly. When I try to halt the system, it >> simply reloads gdm and the following error messages appear >> in my syslog: >> >> gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 >> gdm_child

Re: Can't reboot or halt from gdm

2002-03-12 Thread Oki DZ
Todd Myhre wrote: I've set up gdm on a new laptop but the System menu does not seem to work correctly. When I try to halt the system, it simply reloads gdm and the following error messages appear in my syslog: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 gdm_child_action: Reboo