corrupt dpkg + kernel panic --HELP!

2004-03-01 Thread Michael Bonert
My computer locked-up during the install of "debhelper" as a part of an update. On reboot I couldn't get into the only graphical UI I have installed -- KDE crashes. Working with the command line I figured out debhelper has a problem... and tried removing it: TRYING TO REMOVE DEBHELPER: - sto

Re: Kernel Panic help

2002-03-28 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 02:36, Paul Mackinney wrote: > I thought rebuilding my kernel would be routine, but I can't get it to > boot. Here's what I'm doing: > > 1. Installed kernel-image-2.4.18-686. > 2. Copied to the config, modified it take out all the stuff not on my > system and the stuff I'll n

Re: Kernel Panic help

2002-03-27 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Paul" == Paul Mackinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> cramfs: bad magic Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root Paul> fs on 03:08 Paul> which seems very much like an initrd kind of error. So Paul> what's going on? In order that my trivial and humiliating Paul> erro

Re: Kernel Panic help

2002-03-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 10:36:54AM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote: > I thought rebuilding my kernel would be routine, but I can't get it to > boot. Here's what I'm doing: > [ big snip ] > > But after 5+ tries I still can't boot from this thing. The error is > > cramfs: bad magic > Kernel Panic

Kernel Panic help

2002-03-27 Thread Paul Mackinney
I thought rebuilding my kernel would be routine, but I can't get it to boot. Here's what I'm doing: 1. Installed kernel-image-2.4.18-686. 2. Copied to the config, modified it take out all the stuff not on my system and the stuff I'll never use, add the things to be able to use my IDE CD-RW drive

Re: Kernel panic; help!

2000-09-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 03:55:18PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote: > On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 04:28:07AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > you have experienced fairly severe filesystem corruption, cleaning up > > after such things is generally a nightmare. did you run fsck i > > presume? (fsck a four l

Re: Kernel panic; help!

2000-09-14 Thread Julio Merino
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 04:28:07AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > you have experienced fairly severe filesystem corruption, cleaning up > after such things is generally a nightmare. did you run fsck i > presume? (fsck a four letter word for a reason...) Yes; fsck was run, and after a lot of time

Re: Kernel panic; help!

2000-09-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:00:13PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote: > Hi all, > > Some days ago I was playing with noflushd/apmd and such things, and I > got a kernel panic. I rebooted. Debian was completly a mess, > complaining about libncurses5 was failing. I need to remove /bin/sh > and link it to as

Kernel panic; help!

2000-09-14 Thread Julio Merino
Hi all, Some days ago I was playing with noflushd/apmd and such things, and I got a kernel panic. I rebooted. Debian was completly a mess, complaining about libncurses5 was failing. I need to remove /bin/sh and link it to ash to be able to boot. Then, I reinstalled libncurses5 and at last I was ab