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On Wednesday 25 September 2002 04:15, you wrote:
> [Note to kernel and application developers: Either the <Pause> key has to
> be activated or writing to the screen automagically paused at the end of
> each error message, waiting for a key press. If I have this much trouble
> trying to read the error messages on a P200, what must those with 1.8+ GHz
> machines be experiencing?]
we use log files, such as /var/log/dmesg or ~/.xsession-errors .. this tends
to be qute a bit nicer for things like searching, tailing, editing, copying
errors later into emails, etc...
> "(null): The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct
> ext2 file system. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
> filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is
> corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternative superblock:
> e2fsck -b 8193 <device>"
uh-oh.. sounds like a screwed up partition system.
> I can manually mount most, if not all, of the Linux partitions, but doing
which ones can't you manually mount?
> an "ls -la" on them reveals nothing on most. There are files in /etc,
> /bin and /sbin, however that will allow me to use a few limited commands.
> The WIN-DOS partitions were automagically mounted and I was able to copy
> fstab and dmesg to them. (That's how I can show them to you below.)
sounds like your system gets up and running, it just has problems afterwards
;-)
> Linux at first seems to be booting normally, then I start to get a lot of
> [FAILED] messages. (Damn! I wish they'd do something about stopping the
> screen scrolling at error messages so I could read them!)
take a look in /var/log/messages
> Eventually I get to a point where Linux flashes some sort of message about
> waiting 5 minutes because X is respawning too fast (or something similar),
> and repeats the message every 5 minutes ad infinitum. I can get to a
> system prompt with control-c and log in as root but in another 5 or 10
> minutes I'm interrupted with the same "X is respawning too fast" message.
> I can recover the prompt with control-c.
sounds like a bad XFree86 set up.. what video card are you using? have you
tried running Xconfigurator from the terminal?
> If I copy the original fstab back to /etc (Yes, I did make a "CYA" copy) I
> get to the "Enter root password or press control-d" thingie again.
how are you shutting your machine down?
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Aaron J. Seigo
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"
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