Arrgh: maybe pmud-utils was a really bad idea.
Yikes,
Until an hour ago, I was a really happy Linux user. But then, my
system became unusable -- it won't complete the bootup sequence.
Now, at the very end of the messages that scroll by... the screen
goes blank and the speaker beeps at me erratically. Every time I
boot up.
Here's how I think I must have hose my system: It's a desktop G4 (a
new Quicksilver 800 MHz), and was working fine until I began my
search to try and get Linux to perform some version of the Mac-style
"sleep", as I'd like to leave my system on at night, but leave the
fan quietly off.
I didn't know how to get sleep mode to work, but searching around the
mailing lists and web-sites, I stumbled upon references to the
"snooze" command, and the packages powerpc-utils and pmud-utils. It
turns out i already had powerpc-utils installed, and I had no snooze
command. I looked up pmud-utils on the
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and it wasn't listed. Hmmm.
Just for fun, I tried "apt-get install pmud-utils" anyway, and lo and
behold it began downloading. Okay, whatever.
I walked away from my machine as the downloading completed. Moments
later, the speaker was beeping at me continuously, and the keyboard
was locked. I forced a reboot, but as reported, I could never get to
the command line: just beeping and a locked keyboard.
Okay, so I'm guessing it was really a bad idea to install pmud-utils
on my desktop machine. ;-(
Can someone offer advice how to clean up my system and de-install
pmud-utils knowing that I don't even have a command line? I suppose
I could mount my system under the mini-installation system to gain me
access to the files on my broken system, but I don't know how to make
the necessary adjustments.
Thanks for any help!
(And incidentally, since pmud-utils was obviously not a wise choice,
what *should* I be using to get sleep mode working, assuming I can
get Linux up and operating?)
-- Bill
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