Re: Boot and shutdown routines frequently abort in Squeeze
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 08:06:25AM +0700, Ken Heard wrote:
> I have a Lenovo R61 laptop which I upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze at
> the end of November last. Ever since that upgrade the boot routine
> frequently aborts. The kernel is installed, and the boot routine
> continues as far as the point where the font size changes. At that
> point the screen goes blank, and the boot stops.
>
> I then have to shut down the machine by holding down the start
> button for the required four seconds, and start the boot again for
> as many times as necessary to achieve a complete boot. It takes on
> average 3.5 such restarts each time I start the machine for a boot
> to be finally successful.
>
> Furthermore, ever since I converted this machine on 2013-02-18
> Monday to dependency based booting, the shutdown process no longer
> is completed. It goes to run level 0, closes a number of processes,
> returns the line : “INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel”
> and then stops completely. To complete the shutdown it is necessary
> to hold down the “start” button for the requisite four seconds.
>
> I would be grateful for any information as the why these two
> phenomena occur and how to return to a normal boot and shutdown.
Ouch! Have you ruled out hardware? Have you tried booting from a
live-cd, knoppix, grml, something like that?
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