Re: After a few weeks of almost no issues, Wheezy doesn't boot anymore

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 01:23:09PM -0400, Harry Prevor wrote:
> Thanks a lot for your helpful responses guys. I'm at a public computer
> right now and haven't had a chance to try your ideas yet, but I've
> noticed a few things that I'd like to clarify:
> 
> On 5/9/13, Chris Swenson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Given that these problems were occurring before, I'm guessing you have bad
> > hardware that just decided to coincidentally die with your new install of
> > the OS. Perhaps all the writes to the disk did it when you upgraded.
> 
> I installed Wheezy from the get-go on this machine; I had done a few
> apt-get upgrades but no major distribution upgrades. Oddly enough, the
> hardware didn't seem to die in conjunction with anything important;
> just a reboot.
> 
> On 5/10/13, "Артём Н." <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 10.05.2013 05:04, Harry Prevor пишет:
> >> The normal images didn't work
> >> for some reason now forgotten, so I had to use the unofficial
> >> installation images that included nonfree drivers.
> > What are the drivers?
> 
> I've forgotten by now, but all I remember is that the official USB
> installation images didn't work because they thought my USB was a CD
> drive or something along those lines, and then tried to look for CD
> drives and failed (because I have none on this machine). I asked
> #debian about it and they said to try the unofficial images, so I did
> and they worked fine.
> 
> > How did you install the system? From DVD or from network? Or in some other
> > way?
> 
> I installed it via the unofficial USB installation images with
> included proprietary drivers.
> 
> >> - Two HDDs connected and set via /etc/fstab to mount on boot (this
> >> configuration worked in previous boots so I doubt that is the issue)
> > SSD?
> 
> No; they are HDDs unfortunately.
> 
> On 5/10/13, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Have you installed/upgraded any drivers or installed a new kernel just
> > before you rebooted the system and it started to crash on boot like this?
> > Nvidia's proprietary drivers have always been a pain.
> 
> No, or at least, not that I know of. I might have done an apt-get
> upgrade or something, but nothing major. I had already booted
> successfully directly after installing the nvidia driver before.
> 
> On 5/10/13, Darac Marjal <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If the only proprietary driver you need is the Nvidia X driver, then a
> > rescue disc will work fine for you. You're likely to be pottering about
> > at the command line anyway.
> 
> I don't *need* the nvidia driver at all; everything works in the
> installation without the drivers AFAIK -- But because my brother uses
> this machine for gaming he needs the better 3D performance, so I
> installed it after installing the system. I had to use the
> installation image with drivers for other reasons -- See above.
> 
> When I get home, here is a list of the things I'll try, in order:
> 
> - Make sure the RAM is securely in place
> - Try to boot into single-user mode via GRUB; if that doesn't work,
> I'll try going in via a LiveUSB and chroot into the system
> - Pastebin /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog
> - Pastebin partition / filesystem information
> - Pastebin /etc/fstab plus result of sfdisk -lxuM /dev/sd
> - Pastebin debsums -c
> - Run fsck on my hard drives
> - Include SMART logs (will look that up later)
> - Install and try out the memory checking package
> 
> If any of this is wrong, please let me know. Thanks again.

I would say that either very corrupt disk, bad ram or bad cpu seems
most likely.  Of course a bad power supply can also make everything not
work reliably.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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