Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?
I have regained access to several debian 8 vms using this method, Yes, it still works. On 06/26/2015 03:33 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 06/26/2015 at 07:55 AM, Nick T. wrote: On 06/26/2015 12:55 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: well and good until you find yourself in the situation this very thread is about: your root filesystem is broken and you can only log in as root. Then you need your root password. Ubuntu and debian can boot into recovery mode from the grub menu, from there it asks for the root password IF there is one, if not it just gives you a root shell. Are you sure Debian still does this? Looking at the bug report which Sven Joachim filed (linked from his post in this thread), it seems to me as if the patch which added this functionality was lost when an important binary was moved to another package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/558d4a64.2080...@ncktsp.com
Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?
On 06/26/2015 04:12 PM, Matthijs Wensveen wrote: Not the case. Even in rescue mode I needed to supply the root login. I could use init=/bin/sh but I couln't find anything in the logs in /var/log, so I'm guessing systemd and journalctl keeps the journal in some other place (probably some binary format hidden in a database or something). Matthijs I actually just tried it, sulogin: root account is locked, starting shell it works on jessie at least - Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/558d551c.6040...@ncktsp.com
Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?
On 06/26/2015 12:55 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: well and good until you find yourself in the situation this very thread is about: your root filesystem is broken and you can only log in as root. Then you need your root password. Ubuntu and debian can boot into recovery mode from the grub menu, from there it asks for the root password IF there is one, if not it just gives you a root shell. - Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/558d3da9.9030...@ncktsp.com
Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?
On 06/26/2015 03:59 PM, The Wanderer wrote: (Please don't top-post.) On 06/26/2015 at 08:49 AM, Nick T. wrote: On 06/26/2015 03:33 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 06/26/2015 at 07:55 AM, Nick T. wrote: Ubuntu and debian can boot into recovery mode from the grub menu, from there it asks for the root password IF there is one, if not it just gives you a root shell. Are you sure Debian still does this? Looking at the bug report which Sven Joachim filed (linked from his post in this thread), it seems to me as if the patch which added this functionality was lost when an important binary was moved to another package. I have regained access to several debian 8 vms using this method, Yes, it still works. How recently? What versions of sysvinit/sysvinit-core and util-linux were installed on the systems in question? It's not impossible that this functionality could be unrelated to the patch from bug 326678 (which is referenced from the new bug 789950), but having reviewed both of those bugs, I'd be surprised if it were. Just tested it on one of the systems I am currently configuring, works like a charm $ dpkg -l | grep sysvinit ii sysvinit-utils 2.88dsf-59 amd64 System-V-like utilities $ dpkg -l | grep util-lin ii util-linux 2.25.2-6 amd64 Miscellaneous system utilities ii util-linux-locales 2.25.2-6 all Locales files for util-linux - Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/558d52a8.1090...@ncktsp.com
Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI
Try adding nomodeset to the boot command if its not already there, I had to add that to make the driver work. - Nick On 06/10/2015 10:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. n...@ncktsp.com wrote: Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. - Nick On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: Install build-essential it should contain all the packages necessary to install the driver. Also you might want to install dkms if you don't want to reinstall the driver after every kernel update. - Nick Thank you for that. The driver installation appears to have subsequently succeeded. However, after rebooting, the system still does not see the external monitor (using System - Preferences - Monitors), and :~# lspci -nn | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0416] (rev 06) So, the driver appears to be installed, but not implemented. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55789536.3070...@ncktsp.com
Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI
Edit /etc/default/grub as root and append nomodeset to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT save exit and run update-grub as root. - Nick On 06/10/2015 10:55 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. n...@ncktsp.com wrote: Try adding nomodeset to the boot command if its not already there, I had to add that to make the driver work. This will probably make me seem even more stupid than I probably already appear, but, how do I do that? Thank you in anticipation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55789739.8040...@ncktsp.com
Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI
nomodeset goes inside the quotes derp :P GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=quiet nomodeset - Nick On 06/10/2015 11:23 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. n...@ncktsp.com wrote: Edit /etc/default/grub as root and append nomodeset to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT save exit and run update-grub as root. - Nick On 06/10/2015 10:55 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. n...@ncktsp.com wrote: Try adding nomodeset to the boot command if its not already there, I had to add that to make the driver work. This will probably make me seem even more stupid than I probably already appear, but, how do I do that? Thank you in anticipation. After appending, the file is thus; :~# cat /etc/default/grub # If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update # /boot/grub/grub.cfg. GRUB_DEFAULT=0 GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2 /dev/null || echo Debian` GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=quiet nomodeset GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX= # Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs # This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains # the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...) #GRUB_BADRAM=0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef # Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only) #GRUB_TERMINAL=console # The resolution used on graphical terminal # note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE # you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo' #GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480 # Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass root=UUID=xxx parameter to Linux #GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true # Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries #GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_RECOVERY=true # Uncomment to get a beep at grub start #GRUB_INIT_TUNE=480 440 1 And, in running thence, update-grub, I get this; :~# update-grub /etc/default/grub: 7: nomodeset: not found Sould I have entered the string nomodeset, differently? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55789d99.9060...@ncktsp.com
Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI
Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. - Nick On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: Install build-essential it should contain all the packages necessary to install the driver. Also you might want to install dkms if you don't want to reinstall the driver after every kernel update. - Nick On 06/10/2015 09:00 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 10 June 2015 16:52:50 Bret Busby wrote: ERROR: Unable to find the development tool `cc` in your path; please make sure that you have the package 'gcc' installed. If gcc is installed on your system, then please check that `cc` is in your PATH. Have you done this? Start with: # aptitude search gcc and if necessary # aptitude install gcc If you already have gcc, then check your PATH as suggested. Lisi Okay. So, I installed gcc, using apt-get, then tried again. Then, got the same error regarding make. So, I installed make, then tried again, and got two further errors. See log file below. And, some may wonder why I prefer software (like hardware drivers) that can be installed using a package manager that takes care of all such problems... :~# cat /var/log/nvidia-installer.log nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' creation time: Thu Jun 11 01:48:43 2015 installer version: 346.72 PATH: /sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin nvidia-installer command line: ./nvidia-installer Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface - Detected 8 CPUs online; setting concurrency level to 8. - License accepted. - Installing NVIDIA driver version 346.72. - Performing CC sanity check with CC=/usr/bin/cc. - The CC version check failed: The compiler used to compile the kernel (gcc 4.3) does not exactly match the current compiler (gcc 4.4). The Linux 2.6 kernel module loader rejects kernel modules built with a version of gcc that does not exactly match that of the compiler used to build the running kernel. If you know what you are doing you can either ignore the CC version check and continue installation, or abort installation, set the CC environment variable to the name of the compiler used to compile your kernel, and restart installation. (Answer: Ignore CC version check) ERROR: Unable to find the kernel source tree for the currently running kernel. Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for your kernel and that they are properly configured; on Red Hat Linux systems, for example, be sure you have the 'kernel-source' or 'kernel-devel' RPM installed. If you know the correct kernel source files are installed, you may specify the kernel source path with the '--kernel-source-path' command line option. ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details. You may find suggestions on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com. I do not know why the hardware manufacturers make getting their hardware operational, so difficult. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55788078.3010...@ncktsp.com
