[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] SOAS and Terminal

[Mike Lee]

Kim,

Martin may be on to something. Perhaps you did not set the "Percent storage"
slider in the LiveISB utility?

Mike

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Martin Dengler <martin at martindengler.com>wrote:

> 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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