<div>Kim,</div>
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<div>Martin may be on to something. Perhaps you did not set the "Percent storage" slider in the LiveISB utility?</div>
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<div>Mike<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Martin Dengler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin@martindengler.com">martin@martindengler.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Forwarding to <a href="mailto:sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> in case someone can help<br>
Kim with her problem...perhaps it's a full disk?<br>
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<div class="h5"><br>On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 02:06:52PM -0400, Kim Toufectis wrote:<br>> Martin--<br>><br>> If I seem a bit lost, forgive me, because I am lost... But I'm willing to<br>> keep trying. That said, your advice to use IRC to provide details rings<br>
> hollow because I don't even know what the letters IRC mean, though from<br>> context I gather it's a chat program I've no idea how to access, so I'll<br>> stick to e-mail for now.<br>><br>> If you recall, my problem was that SOAS-strawberry failed to reboot once I<br>
> rpm'd Adobe Flash Player 10. I reformatted the stick and got back into SOAS<br>> on a Windows Vista PC.<br>><br>> A complicating factor was the absence of the wget command in root, but your<br>> prior advice (sudo -y yum install wget) succeeded, so I tried following the<br>
> OLPC wiki instructions for installing Adobe Flash Player again. This time<br>> it found the site, downloaded a bunch of things, and I couldn't keep up<br>> withe a scrolling screen but it got well along and suddenly stopped half way<br>
> through an installation activity and told me I didn't have permission to<br>> install it, stopping dead.<br>><br>> Stuck, I tried to start Browse to copy the terminal page into an e-mail to<br>> this list, but Browse pulsed indefinitely and didn't open. Meanwhile<br>
> Terminal also crashed and also pulsed indefinitely when I tried to reopen<br>> it. So I shut down to get a fresh start, whereupon I'm back at the failure<br>> to boot with the same symptoms as the last time I rpm'd the flash player:<br>
> the boot menu accepts my selecting the SOAS, switches to a screen that says<br>> "Boot will begin in 1 second" as ever, goes black, and ~30 seconds later it<br>> displays the following and hangs up for good:<br>
><br>> sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache write through<br>> sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache write through<br>> Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 0<br>> Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 1<br>
> Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 2<br>> Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 3<br>> Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 0<br>> Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 524272<br>
> Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 524272<br>> Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 0<br>> Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 1<br>> Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 2<br>
><br>> I think the order of the numbers after "logical block" was different this<br>> time than the last, but otherwise the symptoms (and of course the result)<br>> are identical. This time the only thing I did after setting up my machine<br>
> name and icon color was try to install Flash, so I' strongly suspect that<br>> installing Flash is indeed the cause of the failure.<br>><br>> Any contrary views? Any workarounds?<br>><br>> Thanks--<br>
> --Kim<br>><br>><br>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Martin Dengler<br>> <<a href="mailto:martin@martindengler.com">martin@martindengler.com</a>>wrote:<br>><br>> > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:51:38AM -0400, Kim Toufectis wrote:<br>
> > > Martin--<br>> > > Thanks, I remembered I already installed it on my xo so I moved it over<br>> > on a<br>> > > stick and tried to rpm it. Next I tried to reboot SOAS to test whether<br>
> > > it worked, and since then it won't boot, so I'm back to square one. The<br>> > > failure might be unrelated to trying to install flash as I also added<br>> > > several Firefox add-ons during the same session; any thoughts?<br>
> ><br>> > That doesn't sound scary enough to prevent booting. If you tell me<br>> > (and the mailing list) more about the symptoms, or log in to IRC<br>> > (#olpc-help or #sugar), perhaps we can assist more.<br>
> ><br>> > > --Kim<br>> ><br>> > Martin<br>> ><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>