booting this morning found login now had audio, and that the post-login screen had remembered
theme, font-sizes, and other details from my last session. So far so good - I was impressed.
But when I chose metacity as windows manager and deleted the first (config) screen
as normal after using it, things started going wrong.
I could not move or use the second gnome-terminal opened at login. It had no top
border, and clicking it did not give it focus meaning that I could not enter text.
After some effort I decided that I could not do anything with it and rebooted.
I don't like doing this but have found that the system can usually recover
after some time. In retrospect, maybe I should have logged out.
On reboot, the kernel loads normally, but them I get the following boot-log
message, followed by the iterated sequence ...
.......<snip>.....
hdb: irqtimeout: status=0xd0 {Busy}
ide0: reset: success
.......<snip>........I'd be grateful for any constructive advice.
Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Transcribed boot-log follows.] [hda: is my WinXP drive] .................................................................................................................................................... hda: DMA disabled hdb: drive not ready for command ide0: reset: success blk: queue d732fa00, I/O limit
/scripts/ext3: add-journal.sh: 30: cannot open /mnt/etc/fstab: no such file
EXT-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem
EXT-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery
hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 {Busy}ide: reset: success
hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 {Busy}ide: reset: success
hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 {Busy}ide: reset: success
hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 {Busy}ide: reset: success
hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 {Busy}--
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