Re: Guarddog causes intermittent system hang during boot

2011-04-03 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Friday 01 April 2011 10:07 am, Edward C. Jones wrote: > I have a PC with Debian 6.0 and the amd64 kernel. > > When my system is booting I sometimes get the following message: > "Setting up guarddog firewall... /etc/rc.firewall: line 390: logger: > command not found". Then the system hangs. That

Re: Guarddog causes intermittent system hang during boot

2011-04-01 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:07:42 -0400, Edward C. Jones wrote: > I have a PC with Debian 6.0 and the amd64 kernel. > > When my system is booting I sometimes get the following message: > "Setting up guarddog firewall... /etc/rc.firewall: line 390: logger: > command not found". Then the system hangs.

Guarddog causes intermittent system hang during boot

2011-04-01 Thread Edward C. Jones
I have a PC with Debian 6.0 and the amd64 kernel. When my system is booting I sometimes get the following message: "Setting up guarddog firewall... /etc/rc.firewall: line 390: logger: command not found". Then the system hangs. One time the boot procedure hung with the message "Setting up pre

Re: System Hang-up during boot

2008-05-06 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
> * From: Don Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >there must be a way of starting the system in a way where I can look >at a log or perform some tests to determine what has happened. You can try "single user mode" or "recovery mode" o something like that in the menu of your boot loader (grub, I supppose

Re: System Hang-up during boot

2008-05-06 Thread Don Wood
On May 6, 9:20 am, "Micaela Gallerini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/5/6, Don Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > I just installed Debian v4.0 r3. Actually I installed it twice and > > got the same results each time. The Installation went ok without > > errors, as far as I know, but when I'

Re: System Hang-up during boot

2008-05-06 Thread Micaela Gallerini
2008/5/6, Don Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I just installed Debian v4.0 r3. Actually I installed it twice and > got the same results each time. The Installation went ok without > errors, as far as I know, but when I'm starting the system up it goes > thru the normal program loading then the s

System Hang-up during boot

2008-05-06 Thread Don Wood
I just installed Debian v4.0 r3. Actually I installed it twice and got the same results each time. The Installation went ok without errors, as far as I know, but when I'm starting the system up it goes thru the normal program loading then the screen goes blank and the system hangs up. Nothing I

Re: Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-16 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
Vidar Langseid wrote: Hi In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: [snip upgrade instructions] Thanks for posting your experience! I am sure it will be useful to others. You could have a debate about whether this is an installer bug, a kern

Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-16 Thread Vidar Langseid
Hi > [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > > [snip upgrade instructions] > > > > Thanks for posting your experience! I am sure it will be useful to > > others. > > > >> You could have

Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:14:18AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 09:14:44PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > it turns out you can do a reasonable amount of stuff in that busybox > > shell and if the system is close to booting, you can get it to > > go. What I w

Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 09:14:44PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > it turns out you can do a reasonable amount of stuff in that busybox > shell and if the system is close to booting, you can get it to > go. What I was missing, and desperately wanted, was some kind of text > editor. I ended

Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 02:38:36AM +, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > I've had to learn my > > way around that having just reconfigured my laptop. The critical item > > is the contents of $ROOT. The value of $ROOT gets set by the k

Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-02 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 03:33:06PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> > Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: [ when I upgraded Etch to Lenny, device names changed and the Lenny kernel

Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 03:33:06PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > > > Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > > [snip upgrade instructions] > > > > Thanks for posting your experience! I

Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-02 Thread cls
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > [snip upgrade instructions] > > Thanks for posting your experience! I am sure it will be useful to others. > >> You could have a debate about whether

Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: [snip upgrade instructions] Thanks for posting your experience! I am sure it will be useful to others. > You could have a debate about whether this is an installer > bug, a kernel package bug, a udev bug, or operator error.

"Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-01 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
I googled for the answer and didn't find it, and lots of people asking, so this is for the next person with the same problem. I installed a Debian Etch workstation, tasksel: desktop, guided partitioning, the six partitions (/ /usr /var /home /tmp swap) way. Works great. I upgraded to Lenny, the O

Re: system hang-up

2006-08-30 Thread Bill Marcum
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 03:33:02PM -0700, Emil-Valentin Toma wrote: > I've tried many times to install different flavor of linux on a > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and 48 MB memory, as bases. Only after repeated trials > those system were installed. Particullary, I have problem installing > sarge 3.01r2,

Re: system hang-up

2006-08-29 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 03:33:02PM -0700, Emil-Valentin Toma wrote: > I've tried many times to install different flavor of linux on a > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and 48 MB memory, as bases. Only after repeated trials > those system were installed. Particullary, I have problem installing sarge > 3.01r2, if

system hang-up

2006-08-29 Thread Emil-Valentin Toma
I've tried many times to install different flavor of linux on a [EMAIL PROTECTED] and 48 MB memory, as bases. Only after repeated trials those system were installed. Particullary, I have problem installing sarge 3.01r2, if I'm not wrong. At 61% the disc freezes. May I avoid this problem? As a detai

basic instalation system hang-up

2006-08-29 Thread Emil-Valentin Toma
> > I've tried many times to install different flavor of > linux on a [EMAIL PROTECTED] and 48 MB memory, as > bases. Only after repeated trials those system were > installed. Particullary, I have problem installing > sarge 3.01r2, if I'm not wrong. At 61% the disc > freezes. May I avoid this pro

system hang

2006-08-19 Thread tom arnall
My system is hanging momentarily every 4 mins, 2secs. Simultaneous with this condition, 'top' shows 'events/0' using 50-90% of the cpu. This behavior started I think after I got suspend2 working, tho' now i am booting with 'acpi=off' in 'grub/menu.lst'. how can i determine the cause of the beha

system hang

2006-08-17 Thread tom arnall
my system has begun to hang momentarily, every .5 minutes or so, e.g., when typing the echo will lag. Another new thing I see in the system is the following message at boot time: Executing: blockdev --setra 256 /dev/hda1 proc not found in PARTITIONS. /proc not found in PARTITIONS. Checking proc

Re: Solved: Setting keyboard preferences in Gnome (etch) makes system hang up and prevents loging in from GDM

2006-05-02 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 02 May 2006 09:06:15 -0400 Rick Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looking at this a bit more, I see that I've been coached in this (in > the thread I started titled "problems in gnome/gdm after weekend etch > upgrade"). > > Andrius A__trauskas wrote: > > >I had the same. It seems to

Re: Solved: Setting keyboard preferences in Gnome (etch) makes system hang up and prevents loging in from GDM

2006-05-02 Thread Rick Reynolds
Looking at this a bit more, I see that I've been coached in this (in the thread I started titled "problems in gnome/gdm after weekend etch upgrade"). Andrius A__trauskas wrote: I had the same. It seems to happen only if there is any keyboard configuration set in Gnome, or if you try to set it

Re: Solved: Setting keyboard preferences in Gnome (etch) makes system hang up and prevents loging in from GDM

2006-05-02 Thread Rick Reynolds
Here's the part of my xorg.conf: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules""xorg" Option "XkbModel""pc105" Option "XkbLayou

Re: Solved: Setting keyboard preferences in Gnome (etch) makes system hang up and prevents loging in from GDM

2006-05-02 Thread Andrius A__trauskas
On Tue, 02 May 2006 12:17:48 +0700 Surachai Locharoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sorry, replied directly to your e-mail... Andrius > Could you specify a detail about the text which should be added to > xorg.conf please? > > Kan Here's the part of my xorg.conf: Section "InputDevice" Ide

Re: Solved: Setting keyboard preferences in Gnome (etch) makes system hang up and prevents loging in from GDM

2006-04-28 Thread Andrius
Forget my previous e-mail. Added the layouts and toggle key manualy to xorg.conf, it works now. On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 21:19:27 +0300 Andrius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > After recent etch upgrade (27 April, Mark all upgrades -> Apply in > Synaptic) I could not log in from GDM as a

Setting keyboard preferences in Gnome (etch) makes system hang up and prevents loging in from GDM

2006-04-28 Thread Andrius
Hello all, After recent etch upgrade (27 April, Mark all upgrades -> Apply in Synaptic) I could not log in from GDM as a normal user, however could log in as root from GDM, and could log in as a normal user from console. The problem is related to keyboard layout. After I've deleted a normal user

ACPI (was: Re: system hang while using Gimp aggressively)

2001-12-13 Thread Geoff Beaumont
On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 22:25, Matt wrote: > As for your freezing problem, if you're running ext2 or some other > filesystem that gets damaged (sometimes) when you don't shutdown, try > installing ACPI for your system power button. This way, if X freezes > you can press the power button and your sy

Re: system hang while using Gimp aggressively

2001-12-13 Thread Brian Nelson
Paul Reavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric G. Miller wrote: > > > On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 08:44:54 -0500, Paul Reavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I was working on some large (600dpi) images with lots of layers in the > > > Gimp, and had bumped up its image cache to 256MB to reduce > > >

Re: system hang while using Gimp aggressively

2001-12-13 Thread Matt
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace didn't work, neither did cntrl-alt-delete. In > general these both work. I'm using gnome-panel, enlightenment, and a > fair pile of stuff - it's my work/development machine. So narrowing > this down is hard. See my other post - I'm getting crashes besides the > gimp, so now thi

Re: system hang while using Gimp aggressively

2001-12-13 Thread Paul Reavis
Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 08:44:54 -0500, Paul Reavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I was working on some large (600dpi) images with lots of layers in the > > Gimp, and had bumped up its image cache to 256MB to reduce > > swapping. In the middle of a large copy, it froze x an

Re: system hang while using Gimp aggressively

2001-12-03 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 08:44:54 -0500, Paul Reavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was working on some large (600dpi) images with lots of layers in the > Gimp, and had bumped up its image cache to 256MB to reduce > swapping. In the middle of a large copy, it froze x and, as far as I > could tell, the w

system hang while using Gimp aggressively

2001-12-03 Thread Paul Reavis
I was working on some large (600dpi) images with lots of layers in the Gimp, and had bumped up its image cache to 256MB to reduce swapping. In the middle of a large copy, it froze x and, as far as I could tell, the whole machine - it responded to pings but not telnet. I left it overnight and came b

Re: System hang via SSH/scp and NFS

2001-09-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 01:52:47AM +0200, Blazko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greetings. > > I have a strange problem in network: > when copying files via NFS or scp from OpenSSH, the sending machine > hangs randomly. It has woody (actual version) installed. I had the same > thing on the same mach

Re: System hang via SSH/scp and NFS]

2001-09-21 Thread Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing
Did not want to post anonymous here, just saw my entry and corrected it in my mua.thus... Timo

System hang via SSH/scp and NFS

2001-09-21 Thread Blazko
Greetings. I have a strange problem in network: when copying files via NFS or scp from OpenSSH, the sending machine hangs randomly. It has woody (actual version) installed. I had the same thing on the same machine but with FreeBSD 4.1 some time ago. As far as I can say, the hang occurs when copyin

Re: Strange system hang

2001-02-13 Thread John Hasler
Tyler Braun wrote: > ...one that frequently wakes me up when running daily jobs every morning > at 6:30ish. (sidenote: if anyone knows how to change this time please let > me know, I've been trying for some time) ... Edit /etc/crontab, or edit /etc/anacrontab if you have anacron installed. -- Joh

Re: Strange system hang

2001-02-13 Thread ktb
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 04:04:14PM -0500, Tyler Braun wrote: > I'm not entirely sure if this is a hardware, kernel, or operating system > issue, > but I'm hoping somebody out there has some insight. > > Twice over the past few months my hard drive has seemingly gone berserk. I > have > a very lo

Strange system hang

2001-02-13 Thread Tyler Braun
I'm not entirely sure if this is a hardware, kernel, or operating system issue, but I'm hoping somebody out there has some insight. Twice over the past few months my hard drive has seemingly gone berserk. I have a very loud drive, one that frequently wakes me up when running daily jobs every morni

Re: system hang on boot

1998-11-15 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 12:14:43 +0800 Resent-from: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Sibuyas Bombay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resent-sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: list X-Envelo

Re: system hang on boot

1998-11-14 Thread rich
ide0: reset: success. (or something to that effect) if that was the error you got, you've added too much memory to your append. -Rich Perow -! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Sibuyas Bombay wrote: > hi all ! > I 81Mb of RAM but had no idea that i was using only the 64Mb of it u

Re: system hang on boot

1998-11-14 Thread Peter Kovacs
> hi all ! > I 81Mb of RAM but had no idea that i was using only the 64Mb of it until > that > post by Mark Phillips. Anyway, i added the 'append' line to my /etc/lilo.conf > then run #lilo ... > When i tried restarting my box it would completely halt/hang at the part > where > Linux does p

system hang on boot

1998-11-14 Thread Sibuyas Bombay
hi all ! I 81Mb of RAM but had no idea that i was using only the 64Mb of it until that post by Mark Phillips. Anyway, i added the 'append' line to my /etc/lilo.conf then run #lilo ... When i tried restarting my box it would completely halt/hang at the part where Linux does partition checks on

System hang while loading Serial Module

1998-05-10 Thread Ian Seyler
I recently installed Debian v1.3 on an old intel 386 test system. Everything in the installation went fine (but I did have to low-level format the hard drive to make the partitions properly). After the installation I rebooted the system like it asked me to. It seemed that everything was loading up