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 Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 10:56 am Post subject: xhci didn't work and now fails to boot |
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tl;dr: I reseated a USB 3.0 without damaging anything and now the entire computer won't start up.
I was having trouble with a USB 3.0 and now the entire box won't boot (successfully) into SLiM. The monitor will just go to sleep like KMS wasn't set (which it is). My hardware stats are in my signature, except that I've lowered the clocks back to stock (the parenthesis indicate that I don't have those parts yet). I did some major system updating prior to that, including a revdep-rebuild, updating udev, wine, etc.
The last thing it was doing was emerging Chromium, at the time I was trying out a new external HDD with a USB 3.0, I reseated the device since it wasn't getting picked up in dbus and suddenly the entire computer goes unresponsive. PS/2 keyboard, USB, both 2.0 and 3.0, FireWire, they all go blind and I can't really determine what the problem is, as I'm new to Linux.
DEVTMPFS, DM_CRYPT, PM_RUNTIME, and DEVTMPFS_MOUNT are the only kernel options I've altered since it last booted fine.
I use gentoo-sources 3.5.0, the latest portage, udev 187-r1, xdm, xfce, and SLiM.
I want to know why this happened, how I can fix it, and why the USB 3.0 can't be mounted in the first place. It's also rather urgent since I'm leaving overseas relatively soon and VNC hasn't been set up yet (I want to maintain this overseas). 
edit: I have my LiveUSB key ready, so I can dump whatever you guys need to solve this.
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| Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 1:17 pm Post subject: |
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So the hardware does work if it boots into a LiveCD?
What does reseating a usb mean? Reconnecting the header?
Try and unplug it totally from the motherboard.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 4:25 am Post subject: |
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| bjlockie wrote: | So the hardware does work if it boots into a LiveCD?
What does reseating a usb mean? Reconnecting the header?
Try and unplug it totally from the motherboard. |
Yes, hardware does work on LiveCD and on Windows.
Erm, yeah. I found a USB 3.0 Toshiba drive, it didn't show up in dbus (disk utility showed that it did exist, but it couldn't be mounted or whatever). I have a wireless keyboard, it was plugged into USB 2.0, I moved it to 3.0 and back and it didn't work either way. I thought maybe it didn't automatically mount the drive so I checked it by plugging in a PS/2, which didn't work either. In addition to this, I did a hard reboot since none of the ports responded after 10 minutes of tedious waiting (I figured hardware this powerful couldn't make me wait this long), then when I booted back into Gentoo, it got through all that "kernel decompression" then it fell back into Dell's Sleep Mode, which I can't get it out of. Like I said, it was kind of like KMS wasn't set.
Any chance it failing to boot is udev 187-r1 or lvm2 at fault? The only thing it doesn't explain is why it just stopped when I moved the USB. I am currently reverting it back to 187 or 186.
edit: nope, udev is at 186 and 187, didn't work. lvm2 is not the problem either, reverted it as well. Reinstalled gcc 4.6.3 as well.
Welp, running revdep-rebuild right now. In the meantime, what should I do if on updating glibc files a ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY?
edit 1: Revdep-rebuild didn't fix anything. I changed the udev and xdm config files and they still didn't work. Suggestions?
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| Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 11:24 am Post subject: |
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Okay, so I may have found the problem to SLiM. I'm going to split this up to 2 parts.
I remembered how I recovered from slim not booting last time, so I took a look at /var/log/slim.log (I also noticed I have no rc.log, is that supposed to always be there or present only when it has something to say?). I get:
| Code: | slim: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections.
slim: Last login: Fri Aug 3 15:53:13 HKT 2012 on pts/0
slim: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections
Giving up.
slim: unable to connect to X server |
The last paragraph of code is repeated presumably the number of times I tried recovering it. Now that my primary problem is SLiM, I remerged xorg-server and I'm going to see how it goes out.
I'm trying to copy the entire log, but I spotted this in /var/log/kernel/log-2012-08-05-10-10:29:31:
| Code: | | Aug 05 12:53:31 [kernel] [2.196229] EXT3-fs (sda3): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240) |
Note the incorrect date. Later on, I see:
| Code: | Aug 05 12:53:31 [kernel] [2.260162] kobject: 'sda3' (ffff880211da5a88): kobject_add_internal: parent: 'ext4', set: 'ext4'
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Aug 05 12:53:31 [kernel] [5.452661] EXT4-fs (sda3): re-mounted. Opts: (null) |
So I'm rather confused. Are there kernel options I didn't do right? Or
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I got it to not sleep (weirdly enough, re-emerging xorg-server and messing with the new config files did that), but the screen is still pitch black.
Should I cut my losses and reinstall (this is a new install so I have little saved), and I didn't make a initramfs?
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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| FPoBM_Pinkie wrote: | I got it to not sleep (weirdly enough, re-emerging xorg-server and messing with the new config files did that), but the screen is still pitch black.
Should I cut my losses and reinstall (this is a new install so I have little saved), and I didn't make a initramfs? |
What does /var/log/Xorg.0.log say?
emerge everything in the list that this command returns:
qlist -I -C x11-drivers/
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