On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 17:57, William C Brennan wrote: > > Until an hour ago, I was a really happy Linux user. But then, my > system became unusable -- it won't complete the bootup sequence. > Now, at the very end of the messages that scroll by... the screen > goes blank and the speaker beeps at me erratically. Every time I > boot up. > > Here's how I think I must have hose my system: It's a desktop G4 (a > new Quicksilver 800 MHz), and was working fine until I began my > search to try and get Linux to perform some version of the Mac-style > "sleep", as I'd like to leave my system on at night, but leave the > fan quietly off. > > I didn't know how to get sleep mode to work, but searching around the > mailing lists and web-sites, I stumbled upon references to the > "snooze" command, and the packages powerpc-utils and pmud-utils. It > turns out i already had powerpc-utils installed, and I had no snooze > command. I looked up pmud-utils on the > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and it wasn't listed. Hmmm. > Just for fun, I tried "apt-get install pmud-utils" anyway, and lo and > behold it began downloading. Okay, whatever. > > I walked away from my machine as the downloading completed. Moments > later, the speaker was beeping at me continuously, and the keyboard > was locked. I forced a reboot, but as reported, I could never get to > the command line: just beeping and a locked keyboard. > > Okay, so I'm guessing it was really a bad idea to install pmud-utils > on my desktop machine. ;-( > > Can someone offer advice how to clean up my system and de-install > pmud-utils knowing that I don't even have a command line? I suppose > I could mount my system under the mini-installation system to gain me > access to the files on my broken system, but I don't know how to make > the necessary adjustments.
pmud-utils doesn't have an init script, and pmud doesn't start in single user mode, so I think booting into that by appending 'single' at the yaboot prompt should work. > (And incidentally, since pmud-utils was obviously not a wise choice, > what *should* I be using to get sleep mode working, assuming I can > get Linux up and operating?) Last I heard, sleep didn't work on desktop machines. When I tried it on a cube (granted, that was kinda long time ago), pmud said 'the lid' was closed and shut down the machine immediately. I think you should remove pmud until you get definite information that this should work. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
