i recently updated my debian workstation. i am running potato; i haven't changed from the kernel that originally came with the distribution but that apart everything else is up-to-date.
yesterday morning, i had reason to reboot my machine and find that i can't get back in. the machine boots up and then stops midway during the boot-up, while attempting to start anacron. i have attached the output from /var/log/syslog below; i would be grateful if someone could point me to a possible way out of this morass. if any other log output is needed, please let me know. ---------------------------- Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: hda: ST320423A, 19536MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=2490/255/63, UDMA Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct08 08, 8063MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=1092/240/63, UDMA Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11 Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: (scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 0/15/0 Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: (scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 3/255 SCBs Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 415 instructions downloaded Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.31/3.2.4 Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: <Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI host adapter> Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: scsi : 1 host. Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: (scsi0:0:6:0) Synchronous at 5.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8. Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: Vendor: MATSHITA Model: CD-R CW-7502 Rev: 1.17 Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: scsi : detected 1 SCSI generic 1 SCSI cdrom total. Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 8x/8x writer xa/form2 cdda tray Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling) Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: PPP line discipline registered. Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: PPP BSD Compression module registered Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module registered Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY (dynamic channels, max=256). Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: ne2k-pci.c:vpre-1.00e 5/27/99 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ne2k-pci.html Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek RTL-8029' at I/O 0xe400, IRQ 9. Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xe400, IRQ 9, 52:54:05:F2:2B:08. Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: Partition check: Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 > Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: hdb: hdb1 hdb2 Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbscanner Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: scanner.c: USB Scanner support registered. Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xe000, IRQ 10 Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: uhci.c: detected 2 ports Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 1 Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: usb.c: USB device 1 (prod/vend 0x0/0x0) is not claimed by any active driver. Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hub Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: hub.c: USB hub found Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: Adding Swap: 257000k swap-space (priority -1) Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: NTFS version 000607 Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: es1371: version v0.22 time 00:32:53 Apr 8 2001 Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x1371 revision 0x06 Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: es1371: found es1371 rev 6 at io 0xe800 irq 5 Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: es1371: features: joystick 0x0 Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: es1371: codec vendor CRY (0x435259) revision 19 (0x13) Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: es1371: codec features Headphone out 20bit DAC 18bit ADC Apr 19 12:19:34 sammo kernel: es1371: stereo enhancement: Crystal Semiconductor 3D Stereo Enhancement Apr 19 12:19:35 sammo anacron[162]: Anacron 2.1 started on 2001-04-19 Apr 19 12:19:35 sammo anacron[162]: Normal exit (0 jobs run) Apr 19 12:19:58 sammo init: Switching to runlevel: 6 Apr 19 12:19:59 sammo /usr/sbin/gpm[201]: oops() invoked from gpn.c(239) Apr 19 12:19:59 sammo /usr/sbin/gpm[201]: /var/run/gpm.pid: No such file or directory Apr 19 12:20:00 sammo modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-135 Apr 19 12:20:02 sammo /sbin/rpc.statd[154]: Caught signal 15, un-registering and exiting. Apr 19 12:20:02 sammo kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped. Apr 19 12:20:02 sammo kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating. Apr 19 12:20:02 sammo exiting on signal 15 --------------------------------------- sam varghese
