charlie Posted September 14, 2007 Share Posted September 14, 2007 The crash is been a problem for the last week and a half .. On boot up the error message is in the xorg.conf,now image during normal boot ..Changes in xorg , to nvidia driver , and reboot back to normal... Further checking indicates UUID , this was part of a post back in 2006 http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index.ph...197&hl=UUIDmaking changes to the UUID re sda7 and reboot does the same as xorg, reboot.. Have done three reinstalls trying to correct the problem , two on a clean /, /home the third saved /home , hidden file has carried on the error Any ideas what I am looking for , getting a an OS the works is a matter of a quick edit, reboot ... the main problem is still there Charlie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steel Posted September 14, 2007 Share Posted September 14, 2007 The crash is been a problem for the last week and a half .. On boot up the error message is in the xorg.confHi Charlie hmm can you log in enough to run # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE and also # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | tail that will display the error messages your having with xorgyou said that your changed your fstab?? what are they now $ cat /etc/fstab when something goes wrong on my system thats the first place i check is the log files and and look for an eror message so i know what is wrong and what needs to be fixed saves me alot of time and trouble ... without it its like looking for a needle in the haystack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted September 14, 2007 Share Posted September 14, 2007 Yep I would like to see the output of "cat /etc/fstab" as well . . . Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie Posted September 14, 2007 Author Share Posted September 14, 2007 Bruno , Steel here are the results of cat commands in your posts harry@desktop:~$ cat /etc/fstab# /etc/fstab: static file system information.## <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>proc /proc proc defaults 0 0# /dev/sda5UUID=3520b048-569a-46a6-a42c-9d0d9340913d / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1# /dev/sda6UUID=dd9e5b63-dd36-4602-94b0-add756b510b9 /home ext3 defaults 0 2# /dev/sda1UUID=94C08146C0813012 /media/sda1 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1# /dev/sda8UUID=46A5-8C2B /media/sda8 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1# /dev/sda9UUID=46E7-CE76 /media/sda9 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1/dev/sda7 none swap sw 0 0#UUID=facffde6-0801-403f-8b6c-e70325459e09 none swap sw 0 0/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 harry@desktop:~$ harry@desktop:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER(EE) Failed to load module "wfb" (module does not exist, 0)(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/wacom(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/wacom(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/wacomharry@desktop:~$ harry@desktop:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | tailError opening /dev/input/wacom : Success(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/wacom No such file or directory.Error opening /dev/input/wacom : Success(II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeededCould not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc, removing from list!Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic, removing from list!Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, removing from list!(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1440x900"harry@desktoTrust we are going in the correct direction Charlie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted September 14, 2007 Share Posted September 14, 2007 Hi CharliePlease make these changes to your /etc/fstab: # /etc/fstab: static file system information.## <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>proc /proc proc defaults 0 0# /dev/sda5/dev/sda5 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1# /dev/sda6/dev/sda6 /home ext3 defaults 0 2# /dev/sda1/dev/sda1 /media/sda1 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1# /dev/sda8/dev/sda8 /media/sda8 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1# /dev/sda9/dev/sda9 /media/sda9 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1/dev/sda7 none swap sw 0 0#UUID=facffde6-0801-403f-8b6c-e70325459e09 none swap sw 0 0/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0And next reboot and see if it helped. Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie Posted September 14, 2007 Author Share Posted September 14, 2007 Made the changes Bruno , rebooted , did not help ..needed to change sda7 then rebooted .... Is there any way I can avoid the problem or is it just related to the UUID thing Charlie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted September 15, 2007 Share Posted September 15, 2007 Is there any way I can avoid the problem or is it just related to the UUID thing The UUID is often the cause of errors . . . the only way to avoid it is to replace it with the "usual" /dev entries. Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie Posted September 21, 2007 Author Share Posted September 21, 2007 The UUID is often the cause of errors . . . the only way to avoid it is to replace it with the "usual" /dev entries. BrunoWorked at this for a week , still having problems , can you suggest a debian based distro that will not cause the problem getting tired of the Xorg screen of death Charlie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 I would say try Mepis . . . . it seems to be more stable on the X files ;) Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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