"Today it is failing to boot. Complaining about e2fsck on mmcblk0p2. Google should help."
This may be a sign that the SD card has gone bad. I've been through this; lesson learned is that once you have a stable environment, remove the SD, put it in another computer, and copy an image of it. So when it goes bad you don't have to recreate all of your efforts. On May 4, 2014 11:07 AM, "George Gallant" <[email protected]> wrote: > Gordon, > > Primary X problem was missing gnome-panels. > > Is anaconda one of the missing utilities? I have been using it to modify > the applications menu. > > Is there a scheme to record the "current" rpm configuration to regenerate a > second disk image? How about a memory device to "img" file on host? > > Today it is failing to boot. Complaining about e2fsck on mmcblk0p2. Google > should help. > > George > > On 05/04/2014 07:06 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote: > >> On 05/04/2014 02:50 AM, George Gallant wrote: >> >>> Gordon, >>> >>> The ethernet problem was the old udev 70 rule problem. >>> >> >> Ah, fair enough. That shouldn't make it not show up at all, though it'll >> just make it show up as eth1. I think I fixed this in the most recent >> rootfs tarball. >> >> Installed the packages you specified for X. Found I also needed >>> gdm and some fonts. X is almost working. Doing an "init 5" >>> brings up a X based login. Once logging in it immediately exits X. >>> Tried with startx and get similar results. The log files are not >>> particularly helpful. >>> >> >> It's difficult to be sure, but it might be worth checking what your >> /etc/sysconfig/desktop says. Mine says: >> >> DESKTOP=KDE >> DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE >> >> If this isn't set to KDE or GNOME or some other valid option, IIRC the >> default action in EL6 is to just start xterm. If you don't have xterm >> installed, then Xorg will just quit. If that is the case, >> >> # yum install xterm >> >> should get you a little further. >> >> After loading the gdm I did a yum update which contained close >>> to 300 entries. Multiple hours. Makes me appreciate the effort that >>> goes into creating and maintaining a Linux distribution. >>> >> >> It is, indeed, a sad and lonely life, especially if you are doing the >> maintenance around work and family commitments. :( >> >> Gordan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >> > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users >
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