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kikkihiiri
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 Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2014 5:18 am Post subject: My precious system broke down (X won't start) [SOLVED] |
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After a week of partying and having fun with my Gentoo system, it started malfunctioning.
Symptoms:
- X/kde will not start, boots to command line
- Hostname has been reset (none)
- Hardware/System clock anomalies (system sets bios clock to wrong time or something)
Possible reasons:
- Before breakage, I installed software (kolourpaint, irssi, imagemagick)
- The PC seems to have faulty bios, sometimes stucks at boot screen, flashing of the bios fails every time
- added "X kde png" to USE flags
- I ran emerge --ask --quiet-build --update --deep world
last lines of dmesg says:
| Quote: | | "Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver requires the use of a text-mode vga console. Use of other console drivers including, but not limited to, vesafb, may result in corruption and stability problems, and is not supported" |
Command outputs:
Hostname: resolver internal error
/user/bin/startx: cannot create temp file for here-document: Read-only file system
xauth: error in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority
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Fatal server error: could not create lock file in /tmp/.tX0-lock
Unable to connect X server: Network is unreachable
Could you help me out?
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kikkihiiri
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2014 5:40 am Post subject: My precious system broke down (X won't start) (SOLVED) |
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Running and a reboot fixed this.
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The Doctor
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2014 5:46 am Post subject: |
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Not good.
This probably indicates your hard drive is failing. That should be the first suspicion anytime you have file system corruption that isn't associated with a dirty shutdown. If you are not already using it, consider installing (and using) this: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Smartmontools
In any case backups are a good thing.
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kikkihiiri
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2014 6:57 am Post subject: |
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| Not sure if I can really use smartmontools (smartctl) but seems that the disk (SSD) is working properly. |
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