On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 06:32:08AM -0700, Bill Harris wrote: > Bill Harris <wsharris13@gmail.com> writes: > > > Thanks for your quick response. The laptop is currently crashed, and so > > I'll check logs and more later. I discovered uprecords a while back, and > > I booted into W7 and launched IE last night, and then I shut down again. > Then I booted Debian. This time it worked, but I have no reason to > believe that following those steps is anything more than superstition. > > Before that, I had tried a reboot into Debian recovery mode, and I > continued on rather than entering a root password for maintenance. > Somewhere in there it crashed with a log file on the screen. I don't > know for sure what log file that was nor whether it wrote it to disk, > but I found similar messages in 'messages' from the day before when I > was trying to boot when I rebooted last night. > > Here is a section from 'messages' (one of several) where it said "cut > here" (I presume that's important :-) ): > > Apr 17 20:08:13 marbach kernel: [76743.293881] ------------[ cut here ]------------ > Apr 17 20:08:13 marbach kernel: [76743.293916] WARNING: at /build/buildd-linux-2.6_2.6.32-48squeeze1-amd64-qu4MIV/linux-2.6-2.6.32/debian/build/source_amd64_none/net/mac80211/tx.c:1330 ieee80211_tx+0x1ad/0x1d3 [mac80211]() > Apr 17 20:08:13 marbach kernel: [76743.293922] Hardware name: HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC > Apr 17 20:08:13 marbach kernel: [76743.293924] tx refused but queue active This looks like it might be http://us.generation-nt.com/answer/problem-brcm80211-hangs-2-6-36-0-34-rc6-git3-fc15-x86-64-help-200600731.html. Try a newer kernel, if you can (though I don't see evidence in that thread that the change was incorporated into the mainstream kernel) > > Does that mean anything related to an inability to boot? > > Thanks, > > Bill > -- > Bill Harris > Facilitated Systems > http://makingsense.facilitatedsystems.com/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > Archive: [🔎] 871ua6y7c7.fsf@facilitatedsystems.com">http://lists.debian.org/[🔎] 871ua6y7c7.fsf@facilitatedsystems.com >
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