My Suse 9.1 desktop suddenly stopped responding
My Suse 9.1 desktop suddenly stopped responding when I tried to run lbreakout for my son. I had to do a cold restart and despite multiple restart attempts the PC will not longer complete the reboot. Here is the code I see just prior to reboot stalling: Starting resource managerrunable to create /var/run/resmgr.pid startproc: exit status of parent of /sbin/resmgrd: 1 failed Starting RPC portmap daemon done done Starting nfsboot (sm-notify) Help, please? Thanks! dmc -- Blessings ... dmc West Central Florida ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Only cowards ban free choice of religion. This E-mail was generated using SuSE 9.0 Linux & Mozilla. This PC is free of all Microsoft products. Visit: www.suse.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
dmc wrote:
My Suse 9.1 desktop suddenly stopped responding when I tried to run lbreakout for my son.
I had to do a cold restart and despite multiple restart attempts the PC will not longer complete the reboot.
Here is the code I see just prior to reboot stalling:
Starting resource managerrunable to create /var/run/resmgr.pid startproc: exit status of parent of /sbin/resmgrd: 1 failed
Starting RPC portmap daemon done done Starting nfsboot (sm-notify)
Help, please?
Thanks! dmc
Absent any responses I have tried booting from the 9.1 CD and running Installation and Repair -- bad news there! When I ran Repair I received a bunch of unable to repair errors on sysconfig-0.31.0-1.5.i586 postfix-2.0.19_20040312-11.i586 filesystem-9.1.0.i586 hotplug-0.44-32.noarch When Retry failed and I selected Ignore I received the message "Verifying base packages failed" and no further help ... in fact the system locked up and required a cold restart. I am guessing that the Install-Repair from the CD is badly handling the updates from Suse following the initial install. What might have caused this mess and am I now faced with the loss of everything and a fresh reinstall? Thanks! dmc -- Blessings ... dmc West Central Florida ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Only cowards ban free choice of religion. This E-mail was generated using SuSE 9.0 Linux & Mozilla. This PC is free of all Microsoft products. Visit: www.suse.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On Saturday 19 June 2004 10:09 pm, dmc wrote:
Absent any responses I have tried booting from the 9.1 CD and running Installation and Repair -- bad news there!
When I ran Repair I received a bunch of unable to repair errors on
sysconfig-0.31.0-1.5.i586 postfix-2.0.19_20040312-11.i586 filesystem-9.1.0.i586 hotplug-0.44-32.noarch
Not to long ago I had a similar situation on my Compaq laptop. Running the repair thing said I had no sysconfig and a couple of partitions were bad but it couldnt fix them. I suspected the reiserfs but had no real proof. Fortunately I had another harddrive which I installed. Same make and model. Installed SuSE and all went well. My conclusion is that there was something dorked on the old drive. Dont know what but I was able to put it in another machne as a 2nd drive and copy the good stuff off. It now resides in the local landfill. If I were in your shoes I would put in another drive, format and load linux and see how things go. BTW, there's an iso floating around called RIP9.0. You burn it to a cd or floppy and it has a bunch of utilities which may help you diagnose the problem.. Sorry I cant be more help. ra
dmc wrote:
dmc wrote:
My Suse 9.1 desktop suddenly stopped responding when I tried to run lbreakout for my son.
I had to do a cold restart and despite multiple restart attempts the PC will not longer complete the reboot.
Here is the code I see just prior to reboot stalling:
Starting resource managerrunable to create /var/run/resmgr.pid startproc: exit status of parent of /sbin/resmgrd: 1 failed
Starting RPC portmap daemon done done Starting nfsboot (sm-notify)
Help, please?
Thanks! dmc
Absent any responses I have tried booting from the 9.1 CD and running Installation and Repair -- bad news there!
When I ran Repair I received a bunch of unable to repair errors on
sysconfig-0.31.0-1.5.i586 postfix-2.0.19_20040312-11.i586 filesystem-9.1.0.i586 hotplug-0.44-32.noarch
When Retry failed and I selected Ignore I received the message "Verifying base packages failed" and no further help ... in fact the system locked up and required a cold restart.
I am guessing that the Install-Repair from the CD is badly handling the updates from Suse following the initial install.
What might have caused this mess and am I now faced with the loss of everything and a fresh reinstall?
Thanks! dmc
My experience PROBABLY has nothing to do with your problem as you may be running a standard SuSE setup with SuSE kernels, but your end result is the same as mine. Round about 2.6.3-mm from kernel.org, 4KSTACKS was hardwired and starting the nvidia video driver caused the system to lock up. A reboot ran into exactly the problem you describe. The first time it happened, I didn't know about the nvidia and 4KSTACKS problem, most of the stuff on the disk was intact, but the boot failed, reiserfsck, Install-Repair etc. all failed. On the second occasion, I simply forgot to reverse the make-4k-stacks-permanent.patch, this time the disk was completely unuseable, I had to do a fresh install with reformat, then restore the necessary stuff to get back to my original state. This is no longer a problem with the later 2.6.x-mm kernels. Before you do a fresh install, try booting from a rescue CD (I use knoppix and timos-rescuecd, never tried the SuSE CD) and see if you can recover your critical data to perhaps another hard drive. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer ===== LINUX ONLY USED HERE =====
dmc wrote:
My Suse 9.1 desktop suddenly stopped responding when I tried to run lbreakout for my son.
OK, have managed to get to Bash. What I'd like to do is to copy $HOME to /stuff1/ on the external USB HDD. The external USB HDD shows as Bus 004 Device 002 according to lsusb. I am trying to impact Father's Day as little as possible but this is my wife's PC and I don't want to leave her stranded until I will again have time to geek on Wed. Can someone direct me as to how to address the cp command from /home/mmm/ to the external usb hdd, please? Thanks! -- Blessings ... dmc West Central Florida ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Only cowards ban free choice of religion. This E-mail was generated using SuSE 9.0 Linux & Mozilla. This PC is free of all Microsoft products. Visit: www.suse.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
dmc wrote:
dmc wrote:
My Suse 9.1 desktop suddenly stopped responding when I tried to run lbreakout for my son.
Can someone direct me as to how to address the cp command from /home/mmm/ to the external usb hdd, please?
Thanks!
I tried mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt Got the wrong fs type, bad option, etc. or too many mounted file systems error Hints, please? Thanks! -- Blessings ... dmc West Central Florida ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Only cowards ban free choice of religion. This E-mail was generated using SuSE 9.0 Linux & Mozilla. This PC is free of all Microsoft products. Visit: www.suse.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Pardon me for jumping in the middle of this thread (I haven't been paying attention to it till now). But did you format the disk? If so then what format? If VFAT then I'm wondering if another computer/OS can read it. Otherwise, I'd format it and see if you can mount it at that point dmc wrote:
dmc wrote:
dmc wrote:
My Suse 9.1 desktop suddenly stopped responding when I tried to run lbreakout for my son.
Can someone direct me as to how to address the cp command from /home/mmm/ to the external usb hdd, please?
Thanks!
I tried mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt
Got the wrong fs type, bad option, etc. or too many mounted file systems error
Hints, please? Thanks!
u235sentinel wrote:
Pardon me for jumping in the middle of this thread (I haven't been paying attention to it till now). But did you format the disk? If so then what format?
If VFAT then I'm wondering if another computer/OS can read it. Otherwise, I'd format it and see if you can mount it at that point
dmc wrote:
dmc wrote:
dmc wrote:
My Suse 9.1 desktop suddenly stopped responding when I tried to run lbreakout for my son.
Can someone direct me as to how to address the cp command from /home/mmm/ to the external usb hdd, please?
Thanks!
I tried mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt
Got the wrong fs type, bad option, etc. or too many mounted file systems error
Hints, please? Thanks!
I suggested the same things a while ago, if vfat and fat modules loaded and if format had been done - as it's USB I reckon it may have been thought of as a preformatted card rather than a disk drive, nothing heard since. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer ===== LINUX ONLY USED HERE =====
dmc wrote:
dmc wrote:
dmc wrote:
My Suse 9.1 desktop suddenly stopped responding when I tried to run lbreakout for my son.
Can someone direct me as to how to address the cp command from /home/mmm/ to the external usb hdd, please?
Thanks!
I tried mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt
Got the wrong fs type, bad option, etc. or too many mounted file systems error
Hints, please? Thanks!
Has the USB drive been formatted as vfat?. If not "mkfs -t vfat /dev/sda1". lsmod should show modules "fat" and "vfat" loaded. If the above are correct and you can mount the drive, then "cp -dpR /home/mm /mnt" will do it. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer ===== LINUX ONLY USED HERE =====
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