On Sunday 30 July 2006 13:28, Ken Jennings wrote:
On Thursday 27 July 2006 12:57, Stan Glasoe wrote:
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 21:01, Ken Jennings wrote: <snip>
Then I tried the Installation with SAFE options. Whaddya know, but that worked. [...]
More than likely its the apm=off and acpi=off parameters. Theory is that the mainboard's acpi isn't quite right.
[a lot of useful troubleshooting snipped...]
Yes, everything was checked and there appeared to be no jumper, cabling, and BIOS problems.
This computer used to be my personal working system from Suse 8.0 to 9.1. When I got a new computer trickle-down economics moved the computer to my wife with Suse 9.2/9.3 and then an update for 10.0. It never had a problem installing from CD before and always worked fine with a full graphic install plus all the extra development, network, and add-ons.
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After a dozen tries this weekend 10.1 won't install or run without all the safe settings: no apm, no acpi no apic, no ide dma. Even then the graphical install is inconsistent. Sometimes it can setup the S3 on board graphics, sometimes not. Once the system was running it would cough up regular dialogs about some KDE service missing. And then there were the total lockups. I've done crazy things to Suse linux before that caused lockups that needed the power cycled. I've been using Reiser for years and I've never had problems or lost anything due to hard shutdowns. This time most of the lockups and forced shutdowns resulted in not only corrupting files, but also trashing the partition information.
In the end I finally have the system working. It boots and runs with all the safe settings in minimal text mode. It is using ext3 for all the system partitions/files and xfs for the data backup partition. So far in the last 14 hours it has rsync'd 220G of data from the main server with no obvious problems.
10.0 is nice and stable on the four other computers, so I'm having doubts about updating any of the working systems to 10.1.
Sounds like something else is going bad on this machine. This isn't a 10.1 is doing anything radically different _during installation_ with regards to hardware versus all previous versions of SUSE you've used type of issue. After the file transfer is complete... How's the power supply? Do you run sensors-detect and then gkrellm and monitor voltages? Got a voltmeter handy? Check those drive voltages especially the 12V yellow wires. I've seen a single device such as a floppy drive, CD/DVD or HDD go bad and drag the whole system down. Unplug its power and data cable and the system is just fine again. Are all the fans running; video, case, cpu, chipset, power supply? Stan -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com