[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] SOAS and Terminal

[Martin Dengler]

Forwarding to sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org in case someone can help
Kim with her problem...perhaps it's a full disk?

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 02:06:52PM -0400, Kim Toufectis wrote:
> Martin--
> 
> If I seem a bit lost, forgive me, because I am lost...  But I'm willing to
> keep trying.  That said, your advice to use IRC to provide details rings
> hollow because I don't even know what the letters IRC mean, though from
> context I gather it's a chat program I've no idea how to access, so I'll
> stick to e-mail for now.
> 
> If you recall, my problem was that SOAS-strawberry failed to reboot once I
> rpm'd Adobe Flash Player 10.  I reformatted the stick and got back into SOAS
> on a Windows Vista PC.
> 
> A complicating factor was the absence of the wget command in root, but your
> prior advice (sudo -y yum install wget) succeeded, so I tried following the
> OLPC wiki instructions for installing Adobe Flash Player again.  This time
> it found the site, downloaded a bunch of things, and I couldn't keep up
> withe a scrolling screen but it got well along and suddenly stopped half way
> through an installation activity and told me I didn't have permission to
> install it, stopping dead.
> 
> Stuck, I tried to start Browse to copy the terminal page into an e-mail to
> this list, but Browse pulsed indefinitely and didn't open.  Meanwhile
> Terminal also crashed and also pulsed indefinitely when I tried to reopen
> it.  So I shut down to get a fresh start, whereupon I'm back at the failure
> to boot with the same symptoms as the last time I rpm'd the flash player:
> the boot menu accepts my selecting the SOAS, switches to a screen that says
> "Boot will begin in 1 second" as ever, goes black, and ~30 seconds later it
> displays the following and hangs up for good:
> 
> sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache write through
> sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache write through
> Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 0
> Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 1
> Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 2
> Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 3
> Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 0
> Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 524272
> Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 524272
> Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 0
> Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 1
> Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 2
> 
> I think the order of the numbers after "logical block" was different this
> time than the last, but otherwise the symptoms (and of course the result)
> are identical.  This time the only thing I did after setting up my machine
> name and icon color was try to install Flash, so I' strongly suspect that
> installing Flash is indeed the cause of the failure.
> 
> Any contrary views?  Any workarounds?
> 
> Thanks--
> --Kim
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Martin Dengler
> <martin at martindengler.com>wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:51:38AM -0400, Kim Toufectis wrote:
> > > Martin--
> > > Thanks, I remembered I already installed it on my xo so I moved it over
> > on a
> > > stick and tried to rpm it. Next I tried to reboot SOAS to test whether
> > > it worked, and since then it won't boot, so I'm back to square one.  The
> > > failure might be unrelated to trying to install flash as I also added
> > > several Firefox add-ons during the same session; any thoughts?
> >
> > That doesn't sound scary enough to prevent booting.  If you tell me
> > (and the mailing list) more about the symptoms, or log in to IRC
> > (#olpc-help or #sugar), perhaps we can assist more.
> >
> > > --Kim
> >
> > Martin
> >
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