On Mon 13 May, Ben Armstrong wrote: > > > I don't burn DVDs anymore, so I did not personally test booting them > after burning to DVD, but I have booted the same or similar images from > the full official 7.0.0-live set successfully using kvm -cdrom > nameofimage.iso, which should behave identically to booting a correctly > burnt optical media.
I was trying to show a friend the choice of desktops with an IBM ThinkPad laptop running on battery. I am now back home with mains power, and have tried again on both the original IBM ThinkPad, an HP Pavillion laptop, and a Compaq Evo desktop. I was still seeing problems, so I have copied the same ISO images to new discs from a different batch and they have worked and even performed a shutdown correctly. It seems there was a problem with the original discs even though they did verify OK. > > When you report "Both the i386 Gnome and KDE versions refused to open > without a user password" please describe what happens when you boot each > of these two images, answering these questions: > > Which boot option did you select? The default first "Live (486)" option in all cases > > In the case of KDE, did it appear to autologin? (i.e. do you see the KDE > splash screen with icons appearing for each desktop component started, > ending finally with the KDE logo?) I have tried again a few times and the new KDE disc has worked. The Compaq Evo desktop reported that KWin had crashed, Executable: kwin PID: 4050 Signal Segmentation fault (11) but KDE worked OK, and it responded correctly to the shutdown icon. ___________________ > In the case of GNOME, did it appear to autologin? The new disc has worked OK on all computers. What I was seeing before: The first line is umount: can't umount /live/overlay: Device or resource busy then several lines of text. I eventually see a graphic screen icon with Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover Please log out and try again. If I click on the Log out icon the standard log in screen appears with "Debian Live User" and pressing enter/return asks for a password as normal. It will not accept a blank password. I copied the following by hand from the initial terminal: umount: can't umount /live/overlay: Device or resource busy INIT: version 2.88 booting [info] Using makefile-style concurrent boot in runlevel S. live-config: debconf hostname user-setup sudo locales tzdata gdm3 keyboard-configuration sysvinit sysv-rc gnome-panel-data gnome-power-manager gnome-screensaver ** (process:620): Cannot spawn a message bus without a machine-id: Failed to open file "j/var/lib/dbus/machine-id" No such file or directory ** (process:620): Cannot spawn a message bus without a machine-id: Failed to open file "j/var/lib/dbus/machine-id" No such file or directory kde-services debian-installer-launcher policykit anacron util-linux login xserver-xorg openssh-server. The load continues, although without wireless firmware or network, otherwise appears OK. The new disc reported a problem with process:578 instead of 620 and a window with "Gnome 3 failed to load correctly" did appear briefly, but it did work anyway on all 3 machines. ___________________ > > In both cases, do you finally see the desktop afterwards? > > Or where, if anywhere, is the user password prompted? This behaviour was > not reproducible by me with i386 GNOME or amd64 KDE, nor have we > received reports of this behaviour from anyone but you. > > You gave a longer list of further problems. Let's tackle the very first > issues you're having first. > > Thanks, > Ben > It appears to have been a faulty batch of blank DVDs giving random problems, sorted by burning new copies to a new batch of blank discs. Thanks for the help, sorry about the noise. -- Chris Bell www.chrisbell.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
