I want my i686 netbook to be ready for testing the next release.
I experimented with booting debian-live-10.6.0-i386-kde+nonfree.iso
but it fails sometimes, but not always, in a way I don't understand.
After I select the live system from the Main Menu, it stays on the menu display
for a few minutes, then it grinds awhile on a black screen which acquires a
couple log messages, then switches to a metallic blue background with
âû âû âû
displayed in the center. After a minute or two, that disappears and any VT I
switch to contains a scrolling log, alternating these 2 lines forever:
[(timestamp)] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read fragment cache entry [3e0bc32a]
[(timestamp)] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 3e0bc32a, size 6784
with very infrequent addition of 3 or 4 repeats of these 2 lines:
[(timestamp)] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read data cache entry [34454365]
[(timestamp)] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 34454365, size b294
The numbers are always the same, any time the machine goes to this dead end.
I would welcome any advice for how I can troubleshoot or fix or workaround this.
Here are some easy things I have done to rule out obvious problems:
lwp@william:~$ wget
https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/archive/10.6.0-live+nonfree/i386/iso-hybrid/MD5SUMS
lwp@william:~$ grep kde+nonfree.iso MD5SUMS
7039fe4a813446a8207dd08ab0906b11 debian-live-10.6.0-i386-kde+nonfree.iso
lwp@william:~$ ls -al
/usr/local/share/linux-torrents/debian-live-10.6.0-i386-kde+nonfree.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 lwp staff 3409182720 Oct 13 10:54
/usr/local/share/linux-torrents/debian-live-10.6.0-i386-kde+nonfree.iso
lwp@william:~$ md5sum
/usr/local/share/linux-torrents/debian-live-10.6.0-i386-kde+nonfree.iso
7039fe4a813446a8207dd08ab0906b11
/usr/local/share/linux-torrents/debian-live-10.6.0-i386-kde+nonfree.iso
root@william:/home/lwp# cp
/usr/local/share/linux-torrents/debian-live-10.6.0-i386-kde+nonfree.iso
/dev/sdb; sync
root@william:/home/lwp# dd if=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=6658560 | md5sum
6658560+0 records in
6658560+0 records out
7039fe4a813446a8207dd08ab0906b11 -
3409182720 bytes (3.4 GB, 3.2 GiB) copied, 120.712 s, 28.2 MB/s
(repeated dd|md5sum 10 times, same result)
(Moved USB stick to target 686 netbook, verified 10 times there:)
root@netbook:~# dd if=/dev/sdc bs=512 count=6658560 | md5sum
7039fe4a813446a8207dd08ab0906b11 -
6658560+0 records in
6658560+0 records out
3409182720 bytes (3.4 GB, 3.2 GiB) copied, 157.636 s, 21.6 MB/s
(Ran memtest86+ 3 passes on netbook with no errors.)
