On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 01:23:09PM -0400, Harry Prevor wrote: > Thanks a lot for your helpful responses guys. I'm at a public computer > right now and haven't had a chance to try your ideas yet, but I've > noticed a few things that I'd like to clarify: > > On 5/9/13, Chris Swenson <ch...@cswenson.com> wrote: > > Given that these problems were occurring before, I'm guessing you have bad > > hardware that just decided to coincidentally die with your new install of > > the OS. Perhaps all the writes to the disk did it when you upgraded. > > I installed Wheezy from the get-go on this machine; I had done a few > apt-get upgrades but no major distribution upgrades. Oddly enough, the > hardware didn't seem to die in conjunction with anything important; > just a reboot. > > On 5/10/13, "Артём Н." <artio...@yandex.ru> wrote: > > 10.05.2013 05:04, Harry Prevor пишет: > >> The normal images didn't work > >> for some reason now forgotten, so I had to use the unofficial > >> installation images that included nonfree drivers. > > What are the drivers? > > I've forgotten by now, but all I remember is that the official USB > installation images didn't work because they thought my USB was a CD > drive or something along those lines, and then tried to look for CD > drives and failed (because I have none on this machine). I asked > #debian about it and they said to try the unofficial images, so I did > and they worked fine. > > > How did you install the system? From DVD or from network? Or in some other > > way? > > I installed it via the unofficial USB installation images with > included proprietary drivers. > > >> - Two HDDs connected and set via /etc/fstab to mount on boot (this > >> configuration worked in previous boots so I doubt that is the issue) > > SSD? > > No; they are HDDs unfortunately. > > On 5/10/13, vi...@tiensuu.eu <vi...@tiensuu.eu> wrote: > > Have you installed/upgraded any drivers or installed a new kernel just > > before you rebooted the system and it started to crash on boot like this? > > Nvidia's proprietary drivers have always been a pain. > > No, or at least, not that I know of. I might have done an apt-get > upgrade or something, but nothing major. I had already booted > successfully directly after installing the nvidia driver before. > > On 5/10/13, Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> wrote: > > If the only proprietary driver you need is the Nvidia X driver, then a > > rescue disc will work fine for you. You're likely to be pottering about > > at the command line anyway. > > I don't *need* the nvidia driver at all; everything works in the > installation without the drivers AFAIK -- But because my brother uses > this machine for gaming he needs the better 3D performance, so I > installed it after installing the system. I had to use the > installation image with drivers for other reasons -- See above. > > When I get home, here is a list of the things I'll try, in order: > > - Make sure the RAM is securely in place > - Try to boot into single-user mode via GRUB; if that doesn't work, > I'll try going in via a LiveUSB and chroot into the system > - Pastebin /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog > - Pastebin partition / filesystem information > - Pastebin /etc/fstab plus result of sfdisk -lxuM /dev/sd > - Pastebin debsums -c > - Run fsck on my hard drives > - Include SMART logs (will look that up later) > - Install and try out the memory checking package > > If any of this is wrong, please let me know. Thanks again.
I would say that either very corrupt disk, bad ram or bad cpu seems most likely. Of course a bad power supply can also make everything not work reliably. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130510182245.ga14...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca