Re: Arrgh: maybe pmud-utils was a really bad idea.
On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 17:57, William C Brennan wrote:
>
> 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.
pmud-utils doesn't have an init script, and pmud doesn't start in single
user mode, so I think booting into that by appending 'single' at the
yaboot prompt should work.
> (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?)
Last I heard, sleep didn't work on desktop machines. When I tried it on
a cube (granted, that was kinda long time ago), pmud said 'the lid' was
closed and shut down the machine immediately. I think you should remove
pmud until you get definite information that this should work.
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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