stretch boot problems

2016-03-04 Thread Carlos Davila
Hi, I am having problems booting Stretch (Debian 9). During boot, I get a series of messages: (1 of 4) A start job is running for . (2 of 4) A start job is running for. . (4 of 4) A start job is running for Network Manager (47 s / 1min 35s) and after waiting for several minutes, I

Re: "lvmetad is not active yet"

2015-12-18 Thread Carlos Davila
I updated all my packages and the message is now gone. On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Gary Dale <garyd...@torfree.net> wrote: > On 16/12/15 03:10 PM, Carlos Davila wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> During boot I am getting the following message: >> >> lvmetad

"lvmetad is not active yet"

2015-12-16 Thread Carlos Davila
Hi, During boot I am getting the following message: lvmetad is not active yet, using direct activation during sysinit "disk/by-uuid-": Invalid path for Logical Volume. But I have no logical volumes on my system (Stretch on sdb). The system eventually boots and all is good, except for this

installing nouveau_vieux_dri.so

2011-12-12 Thread Carlos Davila
Am trying to install Debian squeeze on an old Compaq TC 1000 tablet. According to my Xorg.0.log file, I get: (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/nouveau_vieux_dri.so failed No such file or directory) and the driver is indeed missing from /usr/lib/dri. So I tried apt-get install

Linux should not be booting

2010-03-11 Thread Carlos Davila
I deleted the following files from /: initrd.img initrd.img.old vmlinuz vmlinuz.old and I deleted all files in /boot: config-2.6.26-2-686initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686System.map-2.6.26-2-amd64 config-2.6.26-2-amd64 initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64 vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 grub

Re: Linux should not be booting

2010-03-11 Thread Carlos Davila
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Clive McBarton clivemcbar...@web.de wrote: Interesting. You seem to have figured out some secret block mode of grub, which I have been looking for but didn't find. Can you post your boot sector here? Typing the following (as root) will print the boot sector

Re: Re: Linux should not be booting

2010-03-11 Thread Carlos Davila
That would be /boot/grub. correct, my typo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b9972d7.2090...@lyle.smu.edu

Re: Re: Linux should not be booting

2010-03-11 Thread Carlos Davila
Thib, You nailed it. After having juggled hard drives around, I ended up commenting out the line that mounts /dev/hda1 on /boot in fstab. Fixed that, copied grub images to /boot/grub, and ran grub-install and everything works as it should. Thanks to all, cd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

grub directory missing (but grub still runs!)

2010-01-09 Thread Carlos Davila
As I mentioned in an earlier post, using the synaptic package manager, I got: Removing xcircuit ... Processing triggers for menu ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 (2.6.26-19lenny2) ... Running depmod. Running mkinitramfs-kpkg. Not updating initrd symbolic

Debian does not detect SATA DVD drive

2010-01-07 Thread Carlos Davila
Hello, I installed a SATA DVD drive (Plextor PX-880SA) on my dual-boot system (Windows XP Pro and Debian Lenny). When I boot Linux, fsck fails. Here is the relevant portion of the log file: Thu Jan 7 16:39:14 2010: Checking file systems...fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) Thu Jan 7 16:39:14 2010:

subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2010-01-07 Thread Carlos Davila
Hi, When I install (or uninstall) a package, it seems to install OK, however I get the error: dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 This seems to be a known bug associated with this kernel, but I have not

Grub tarda para cargar

2005-09-15 Thread jean carlos davila
hola lista. tengo un problemita con grub. en una Celleron con 256 Mb de ram al encender la pc, tarda como 1minuto cargando el grub. que sera! begin:vcard note;quoted-printable:Jean Carlos Davila=0D=0A= PLUG=0D=0A= UBUNTU GNU/Linux=0D=0A= Linux User # 390709 version:2.1 end:vcard

Radio ÑU venezuela

2005-09-15 Thread jean carlos davila
hola comunidad en venezuela tenemos una radio pueden sintinizarla con xmms, winamp o similares http://unplug.org.ve:8000/vivo begin:vcard note;quoted-printable:Jean Carlos Davila=0D=0A= PLUG=0D=0A= UBUNTU GNU/Linux=0D=0A= Linux User # 390709 version:2.1 end:vcard