Re: Mint boot problems

2014-12-30 Thread koder
OK, I have moved the USB plugs amongst four of the five USB jacks. On the last set, on top of the box boot failed on the first power up. When I did get it up dmesg, as it has in all of the other cases says the port is using xhic on the low speed devices of my keyboard and trackball mouse. P

Re: Mint boot problems

2014-12-30 Thread Michael Butash
Zooming to usb stuff for brevity, tldr version - I think your mouse and keyboard are on the usb3 bus, try moving them to 2.0-based ports? -mb On 12/28/2014 08:57 PM, koder wrote: Here is the current boot, obviously succe

Re: Mint boot problems

2014-12-30 Thread Todd Millecam
Ah, yeah, your right, sorry--12 hour car drive, saw something that looked familiar and jumped to a conclusion. Looking over the difference between those two boot logs here are some things that could be causing it: 1) scsi0 gets initialized on the failed boot, and sda4 is never mounted with the pr

Re: Mint boot problems

2014-12-30 Thread Matt Graham
On 2014-12-29 21:16, Todd Millecam wrote: Skimmed through the other responses [...] Your GPU is crashing and your graphics card is causing a kernel panic, This is *possible*, but there's nothing in the logs that koder posted that supports it. If the machine's kernel-panicked, then it'll proba

Re: Mint boot problems

2014-12-29 Thread Todd Millecam
Skimmed through the other responses after reading your logs, so forgive me for repeating, just got back from AZ (miss it already). Your GPU is crashing and your graphics card is causing a kernel panic, this is actually a fairly common thing for GPUs to do (M$ reports that gpu drivers cause approxi

Re: Mint boot problems

2014-12-29 Thread Michael Butash
Not sure if mint is exactly the same, but using "apt-get install kubuntu-desktop" or kde-base metapackages might be path of least resistance. I really wanted mint, especiall debian edition to work out as I almost loathe ubuntu these days, but sadly it's still more wrecked than ubuntu for real

Re: Mint boot problems

2014-12-29 Thread koder
I will have to set something up to log onto it, but I think I can do it. Lacking that KDE, as suggested, may be the second best option. I will let you know, it will probably take a couple of days. Harold On 12/29/2014 10:04 AM, Matt Graham wrote: On 2014-12-28 20:57, koder wrote: [problems w

Re: Mint boot problems

2014-12-29 Thread Michael Butash
On 12/29/2014 02:09 PM, Matt Graham wrote: On 2014-12-29 13:26, Michael Butash wrote: I have/had a weird issue like this using lmde with mate, where recently my trackpad would stop working on me after about a minute into using the desktop from lightdm login manager. I tried fiddling with the tr

Re: Mint boot problems

2014-12-29 Thread Matt Graham
On 2014-12-29 13:26, Michael Butash wrote: I have/had a weird issue like this using lmde with mate, where recently my trackpad would stop working on me after about a minute into using the desktop from lightdm login manager. I tried fiddling with the trackpad settings, seemed something related to

Re: Mint boot problems

2014-12-29 Thread druid001 .
Wow, I've been using Cinnamon for a few years now and other than not being able to get rid of "Recent Files" I haven't had an issue yet. It "just works" on both my laptop and desktop. Not that this helps with the mouse\keyboard issue, sorry. On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Michael Butash wrote:

Re: Mint boot problems

2014-12-29 Thread Michael Butash
Might be an issue with lightdm, or whatever they use on ubuntu mint these days. Maybe try a different login manager like gdm (if usable still?) or kdm? I'd say ssh in and see what syslog or x logs show. I have/had a weird issue like this using lmde with mate, where recently my trackpad would

Re: Mint boot problems

2014-12-29 Thread Matt Graham
On 2014-12-28 20:57, koder wrote: [problems with Mint not always recognizing that there's a USB keyboard and mouse plugged in] Here is the current boot, obviously successful: [much snippage] There's nothing in those logs that makes success/failure obvious to me though. I took both dmesg logs

Re: Mint boot problems

2014-12-28 Thread koder
Here is the prior unsuccessful boot [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct [0.00] Linux version 3.13.0-24-generic (buildd@batsu) (gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) ) #47-Ubu

Re: Mint boot problems

2014-12-28 Thread koder
Here is the current boot, obviously successful: [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct [0.00] Linux version 3.13.0-24-generic (buildd@batsu) (gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu

Re: Mint boot problems

2014-12-28 Thread Todd Millecam
post them On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 7:26 PM, koder wrote: > I would appreciate some guidance troubleshooting a problem on my computer. > > I am running Mint 17.1 on a relatively new Dell XPS i7 box. > > Since I installed Mint I have been having instances of arriving at the > login screen and the U

Mint boot problems

2014-12-28 Thread koder
I would appreciate some guidance troubleshooting a problem on my computer. I am running Mint 17.1 on a relatively new Dell XPS i7 box. Since I installed Mint I have been having instances of arriving at the login screen and the USB keyboard and mouse are not recognized. I am not able to use th