Re: [SLE] Can't Boot Laptop with 9.3

From: Dom Incollingo (DomIncollingo_at_austin.rr.com)
Date: 04/30/05

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    Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 09:19:07 -0500
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    Dom Incollingo wrote:

    > Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:
    >
    >> On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Dom Incollingo wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >>> Hello,
    >>>
    >>> I installed 9.3 on an HP ZD7000 laptop about a week ago. (I
    >>> previously had 9.2
    >>> on the laptop for about 2 months with no problems.) Apart from several
    >>> annoying problems with Gnome, 9.3 seemed to be working fine. This
    >>> morning I
    >>> tried to reboot the laptop. But the laptop will not boot. It gets
    >>> midway
    >>> through the boot process and it shuts itself off. I've tried booting
    >>> the
    >>> laptop 5 times, but the same thing happened each time. Before the
    >>> boot process
    >>> stops, I notice messages indicating that the "filesystem is not clean".
    >>>
    >>> How can I diagnose/correct this problem? Is there a way to determine
    >>> if this
    >>> if my system got corrupted or if this is a hardware failure? If the
    >>> system is
    >>> corrupted, can I fix it without re-installing?
    >>>
    >>
    >> One possible approach is to select the "Failsafe" mode on the initial
    >> boot prompt. As I recall, this brings the system up in a
    >> "single-user" mode and runs fsck on the disk subsystem.
    >>
    >> A second approach is to boot from DVD 1 and select the "Installation"
    >> mode at the initial boot prompt. Just take the default action on each
    >> of the screens displayed until you get to the one where it prompts
    >> you to select what you want to do. Select repair. This will, also,
    >> run fsck to repair the file system. Then it will go through all of
    >> the installed packages and re-install any corrupted packages.
    >>
    >> Merton Campbell Crockett
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >>
    > Thanks very much for the suggestions. I've run fsck, and that doesn't
    > seem to have completely solved the problem. So I'll try the second
    > approach.
    >
    Well this isn't looking good. I did a 'repair' from DVD 1. The only
    problems it found was that I didn't have the installed versions of
    packages dbus-1, hal, and postfix. So I let in re-install those
    packages. It didn't find any problems with the file system itself. When
    the 'repair' finished, I rebooted. I got as far as the Gnome login
    screen. I entered my userid and password, and the system crashed while
    the Gnome desktop was initializing.

    If I have to re-install, I'm probably going back to 9.2 since I didn't
    have any problems with it...... I was always a bit frustrated with the
    flakey Gnome behavior in 9.3.

    Thanks for your help. I appreciate your trying to help me fix this. 

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