Re: system stops

2019-01-29 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, January 29, 2019 03:58:21 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 02:07:05PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > [...] > > > You should read all of wikipedia before using a piece of software? Or > > some selection based on words you can remember / think of? > > You can

Re: system stops

2019-01-29 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 02:07:05PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: [...] > You should read all of wikipedia before using a piece of software? Or some > selection based on words you can remember / think of? You can leave out that page on fern [1]. And that other on slime mold [2] (Uh-oh. Now

Re: system stops

2019-01-29 Thread Paul Sutton
On 29/01/2019 01:17, David Christensen wrote: > On 1/28/19 10:41 AM, John Darrah wrote: >> On 1/28/2019 10:21 AM, David Christensen wrote: >>> On 1/28/19 1:18 AM, Paul Sutton wrote: On 28/01/2019 00:55, David Christensen wrote: > On 1/27/19 12:11 PM, BELAHCENE Abdelkader wrote: >> Som

Re: system stops

2019-01-28 Thread Tixy
On Mon, 2019-01-28 at 15:43 -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, January 28, 2019 02:45:26 PM John Darrah wrote: > > On 1/28/2019 11:08 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I don't consider that documentation. > > > Is this better?: > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.18/admin-guide/sys

Re: system stops

2019-01-28 Thread John Crawley
On 28/01/2019 18.18, Paul Sutton wrote: On 1/27/19 12:11 PM, BELAHCENE Abdelkader wrote: Sometimes (maybe often) when I leave the system for a times without touching it, when I come back, the system is frozen , juste the pointer of mouse can move, but nothing else,  keyboard doesn't respond,  ev

Re: system stops

2019-01-28 Thread David Christensen
On 1/28/19 10:41 AM, John Darrah wrote: On 1/28/2019 10:21 AM, David Christensen wrote: On 1/28/19 1:18 AM, Paul Sutton wrote: On 28/01/2019 00:55, David Christensen wrote: On 1/27/19 12:11 PM, BELAHCENE Abdelkader wrote: Sometimes (maybe often) when I leave the system for a times without tou

Re: system stops

2019-01-28 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, January 28, 2019 02:45:26 PM John Darrah wrote: > On 1/28/2019 11:08 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I don't consider that documentation. > Is this better?: > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.18/admin-guide/sysrq.html Yes, thank you!

Re: system stops

2019-01-28 Thread John Darrah
On 1/28/2019 11:08 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm, it might be my day to be disagreeable, and I'm not the OP, nor (iirc) have I posted in this thread prior to this, but ... On Monday, January 28, 2019 01:41:41 PM John Darrah wrote: On 1/28/2019 10:21 AM, David Christensen wrote: Where is th

Re: system stops

2019-01-28 Thread rhkramer
Hmm, it might be my day to be disagreeable, and I'm not the OP, nor (iirc) have I posted in this thread prior to this, but ... On Monday, January 28, 2019 01:41:41 PM John Darrah wrote: > On 1/28/2019 10:21 AM, David Christensen wrote: > > Where is that documented? > > > > > > David > > Right

Re: system stops

2019-01-28 Thread John Darrah
On 1/28/2019 10:21 AM, David Christensen wrote: On 1/28/19 1:18 AM, Paul Sutton wrote: On 28/01/2019 00:55, David Christensen wrote: On 1/27/19 12:11 PM, BELAHCENE Abdelkader wrote: Sometimes (maybe often) when I leave the system for a times without touching it, when I come back, the system is

Re: system stops

2019-01-28 Thread David Christensen
On 1/28/19 1:18 AM, Paul Sutton wrote: On 28/01/2019 00:55, David Christensen wrote: On 1/27/19 12:11 PM, BELAHCENE Abdelkader wrote: Sometimes (maybe often) when I leave the system for a times without touching it, when I come back, the system is frozen , juste the pointer of mouse can move, bu

Re: system stops

2019-01-28 Thread Paul Sutton
On 28/01/2019 00:55, David Christensen wrote: > On 1/27/19 12:11 PM, BELAHCENE Abdelkader wrote: >> Sometimes (maybe often) when I leave the system for a times without >> touching it, when I come back, the system is frozen , juste the >> pointer of >> mouse can move, but nothing else,  keyboard do

Re: system stops

2019-01-27 Thread David Wright
On Sun 27 Jan 2019 at 20:23:38 (-0500), Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 1/27/19, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > > > AND THAT... just reminded me that there was a thread where someone > > here said something I'd never remembered hearing before... There's a > > spot related to I THINK initramfs or somethi

Re: system stops

2019-01-27 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/27/19, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > AND THAT... just reminded me that there was a thread where someone > here said something I'd never remembered hearing before... There's a > spot related to I THINK initramfs or something LIKE that > (initrd.img??) where we can accidentally be carrying over a

Re: system stops

2019-01-27 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/27/19, Jens Holzhäuser wrote: > On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 09:11:33PM +0100, BELAHCENE Abdelkader wrote: >> Sometimes (maybe often) when I leave the system for a times without >> touching it, when I come back, the system is frozen , juste the pointer >> of >> mouse can move, but nothing else, k

Re: system stops

2019-01-27 Thread David Christensen
On 1/27/19 12:11 PM, BELAHCENE Abdelkader wrote: Sometimes (maybe often) when I leave the system for a times without touching it, when I come back, the system is frozen , juste the pointer of mouse can move, but nothing else, keyboard doesn't respond, even ctrl+alt+F1 , or F2, ... So the only

Re: system stops

2019-01-27 Thread Jens Holzhäuser
On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 09:11:33PM +0100, BELAHCENE Abdelkader wrote: > Sometimes (maybe often) when I leave the system for a times without > touching it, when I come back, the system is frozen , juste the pointer of > mouse can move, but nothing else, keyboard doesn't respond, even > ctrl+alt+F1

system stops

2019-01-27 Thread BELAHCENE Abdelkader
HI, uname -a gives Linux mx 4.19.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.5-2~mx17+1 (2018-12-12) x86_64 GNU/Linux Sometimes (maybe often) when I leave the system for a times without touching it, when I come back, the system is frozen , juste the pointer of mouse can move, but nothing else, keyboard doesn't

Re: Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen (me too!)

2016-11-03 Thread Mike Conde
> Sorry to see that you're having this problem. I'm stymied as to why it might > happen with a VM. I had assumed that the new kernel had stopped supporting > some piece of hardware in my rather unusual little notebook computer. > The same day the kernel was updated on my system, pc-grub was also

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen (me too!)

2016-11-03 Thread Jape Person
On 11/03/2016 03:26 PM, Mike Conde wrote: Have you checked your boot partition - does it have enough free space? I don't have a separate boot partition, just one main partition that is 40GB in capacity and 40% full. Sorry to see that you're having this problem. I'm stymied as to why it might

Re: Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen (me too!)

2016-11-03 Thread Mike Conde
> Have you checked your boot partition - does it have enough free space? I don't have a separate boot partition, just one main partition that is 40GB in capacity and 40% full.

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen (me too!)

2016-11-03 Thread deloptes
Mike Conde wrote: > I am having exactly the same problem as Jape Person's post from Oct 22 > 2016, except my hardware environment is completely different. > > I am running Debian testing/Stretch 64-bit on a virtual machine under > virtualbox. The host OS is Windows 7 64-bit. > > I don't know ex

Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen (me too!)

2016-11-02 Thread Mike Conde
I am having exactly the same problem as Jape Person's post from Oct 22 2016, except my hardware environment is completely different. I am running Debian testing/Stretch 64-bit on a virtual machine under virtualbox. The host OS is Windows 7 64-bit. I don't know exactly which kernel update was the

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

2016-10-23 Thread Jape Person
On 10/23/2016 05:26 PM, Frank wrote: Op 23-10-16 om 22:47 schreef Felix Miata: I don't remember having any Stretch installations with fewer than two installed kernels. The currently booted one, originally installed 51 weeks ago, has 6 installed. I've yet to discover any doc suggesting anything a

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

2016-10-23 Thread Frank
Op 23-10-16 om 22:47 schreef Felix Miata: I don't remember having any Stretch installations with fewer than two installed kernels. The currently booted one, originally installed 51 weeks ago, has 6 installed. I've yet to discover any doc suggesting anything about any possibility of automatic remo

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

2016-10-23 Thread Jape Person
On 10/23/2016 04:47 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Jape Person composed on 2016-10-23 14:33 (UTC-0400): Felix Miata wrote: Does the same thing happen booting the previous kernel (4.6?)? Nope. The problem occurred on the first reboot after the upgrade from 4.7.6-1 to 4.7.8-1. The upgrade process d

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

2016-10-23 Thread Felix Miata
Jape Person composed on 2016-10-23 14:33 (UTC-0400): Felix Miata wrote: Does the same thing happen booting the previous kernel (4.6?)? Nope. The problem occurred on the first reboot after the upgrade from 4.7.6-1 to 4.7.8-1. The upgrade process didn't leave 4.7.6-1 in place so I could fall

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

2016-10-23 Thread Jape Person
On 10/23/2016 01:33 PM, Felix Miata wrote: James P. Wallen composed on 2016-10-23 12:14 (UTC-0400): On 10/22/2016 18:10 (UTC-0400), Jape Person wrote: It's confusing to see a response from a different person writing as if he was responding to himself. The confusion is caused by my idiotic t

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

2016-10-23 Thread Jape Person
On 10/23/2016 01:21 PM, Børge Holen wrote: I have to use the nomodeset from time to time where the f*** gfx card has unresolved issues with itself. Atleast it lets me boot to a prompt. Now thinking of it, I have no blinking cursor, I just get a black screen... So different issue all together and

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

2016-10-23 Thread Jape Person
On 10/23/2016 01:03 PM, Michael Lange wrote: On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 12:14:39 -0400 "James P. Wallen" wrote: Double checked to see if I was right about the video subsystem. It is not ATI, it is Intel integrated. No docs on this thing. It was never officially sold in U.S., where I live currently. S

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

2016-10-23 Thread Felix Miata
James P. Wallen composed on 2016-10-23 12:14 (UTC-0400): On 10/22/2016 18:10 (UTC-0400), Jape Person wrote: It's confusing to see a response from a different person writing as if he was responding to himself. Be that as it may, have either of you tried intercepting Grub and unquieting the

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

2016-10-23 Thread Børge Holen
Heck I even remember a one-floppy live distribution that I had for just this purpose. On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 7:26 PM, Børge Holen wrote: > Have you tried booting off a live distribution and inserted the old kernel > and symlinked the libraries so you can rerun grub update? I remember we had > t

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

2016-10-23 Thread Børge Holen
Have you tried booting off a live distribution and inserted the old kernel and symlinked the libraries so you can rerun grub update? I remember we had to do that with lilo whenever I tried new kernels and forgot all about lilo. Cannot even remember the last time I did it, since I found the rescue o

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

2016-10-23 Thread Børge Holen
I have to use the nomodeset from time to time where the f*** gfx card has unresolved issues with itself. Atleast it lets me boot to a prompt. Now thinking of it, I have no blinking cursor, I just get a black screen... So different issue all together and I am just rambling on On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 a

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

2016-10-23 Thread Michael Lange
On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 12:14:39 -0400 "James P. Wallen" wrote: > Double checked to see if I was right about the video subsystem. > It is not ATI, it is Intel integrated. No docs on this thing. It > was never officially sold in U.S., where I live currently. Since > I can't boot it to usable state,

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

2016-10-23 Thread James P. Wallen
leased. (I think the original installation is that old.) I've been using the linux-image-686-pae kernel on the system. The updates today included an update to linux-image-4.7.0-1-686-pae (4.7.8-1) and grub-pc (2.02-beta3-1). Upon reboot the system stops with a blinking underline cursor in the upp

Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

2016-10-22 Thread Jape Person
inux-image-4.7.0-1-686-pae (4.7.8-1) and grub-pc (2.02-beta3-1). Upon reboot the system stops with a blinking underline cursor in the upper left corner. I suspect that the boot process stops immediately after grub. I cannot connect via ssh or even ping the system. Using Ctrl-Alt-Del has no e