Re: We've got a problem. Debian "Jessie" box won't launch X or Tomcat, and USB drive won't mount

2019-01-15 Thread Richard Hector
On 15/01/19 12:24 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > USB for backups: the hard drive is dead. Get a new one. Test it. I had one that appeared to die (WD 1TB IIRC) - I cut it open, and the sata drive inside works fine, it was just the usb interface that had died. Richard signature.asc Description:

Re: We've got a problem. Debian "Jessie" box won't launch X or Tomcat, and USB drive won't mount

2019-01-14 Thread Dan Ritter
James H. H. Lampert wrote: > Ladies and Gentlemen: > > We've got a Debian 8 box (an old Dell 400SC) that won't launch X (it boots > to a command line) or Tomcat, nor mount a USB hard drive that we use for > backups. > > It will, however, accept ssh connections. > > In the boot sequence, I see

We've got a problem. Debian "Jessie" box won't launch X or Tomcat, and USB drive won't mount

2019-01-14 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Ladies and Gentlemen: We've got a Debian 8 box (an old Dell 400SC) that won't launch X (it boots to a command line) or Tomcat, nor mount a USB hard drive that we use for backups. It will, however, accept ssh connections. In the boot sequence, I see "Failed" where it tries to mount the USB