Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

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On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 07:21:19PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> David Wright composed on 2022-02-18 14:19 (UTC-0600):
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> > On Fri 18 Feb 2022 at 09:15:50 (-0800), Gene Heskett wrote:
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> >> Two problems:
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> >> terminals went funkity late tuesday, spent Wed-Thu trying to reboot, would not go beyond the 15 second mark rebooting. Finally ran the net installer in rescue mode, copied my 122gb /home dir, on a 1.9T raid10 to a different drive and reinstalled, then copied it back, but kmail refuses to use the copied back data so I'm using FF to post this.
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> > No idea what funkity means,
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> nuts, cuckoo, fubar, whacky, loopy aka abnormal

But what are the *actual* symptoms? What did Gene see? What did he
try, to troubleshoot, and what results did he get?

Exactly what I wrote Greg, the boot stops at the 15 second mark, forever. I let it set there once for several hours while I caught some shuteye.

Repeated at least 20 times.

Putting the install dvd in that drive, and selecting rescue mode, works and I was able to make a backup of /home. Then I reinstalled. And on the reboot after the install this PITA of a blast of unintelligible noise per keystroke was back and I did not go anywhere near those menu item for this install.

These are basic questions that someone with Gene's level of experience
shouldn't need to be asked.

Maybe so but I also getting upset with the feigned ignorance of what I type you won't believe. I said it stopped at about 15 seconds and I don't understand your lack of comprehension of the word "stopped". At that point, the only thing that worked was the front panel of this 30" towers reset button, or after a delay, the power button.

Right now I've removed brltty and its api library which stops he racket of unintelligible sound, but my syslog is growing by abut 6 lines of errors per keystroke because brltty can't be found, or about every 4 or 5 seconds even if the keyboard isn't in use.

I need to find a way to remove this stuff w/o eviscerating half the system with its dependencies. Respin the installer for 11-4 if needed but this needs fixed.

I'd also bet you a six pack of suds it won't reboot right now because I have removed brltty, and that IS the 15 second showstopper. But if my theory is correct, it will also add to the reinstall count which is already annoyingly high. Which with this system means at least a day to do it.

Give us back stretch, once the install was fixed so it had networking, it just worked, till hell froze over.

Oh, since we're on the subject, how do I put an option on the kernel load line,(in grub.cfg) to make very noisy debugging so the next time I have to reboot, I can see exactly what stopped it. That would be a great help.