Re: Boot Problems

mark

did not mean pipe, i meant redirect output to a file.

dmesg > /tmp/dmesg.txt_2012dec15

david

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 6:38 PM, David Lopez <lopezdavid123@gmail.com>wrote:

> mark
>
> on you machine from a terminal, do a "dmesg" command and pipe it to a file
> for inspection using cat or text editor.
> you should see the relative times on the left and output of your boot up
> on the right. maybe you can figure it out.
>
> david
>
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz
> > wrote:
>
>> I have an older Dell Tower running Linux version 2.6.32-5-686 (Debian
>> 2.6.32-41squeeze2) (dannf@debian.org) (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian
>> 4.3.5-4) ). It is a headless system that just serves some web pages, php,
>> mysql, and a few others. It stopped booting, so I hooked up a monitor and
>> keyboard and rebooted. It ran into problems checking the disk, so I let it
>> boot into read only mode and ran fsck. I accepted all the defaults - there
>> were some damaged inodes, so I let it fix them. It is booting OK now and
>> seems to be running OK. The broken inodes were in some perl packages (late
>> last night, did not write down the package name).
>>
>> The only strange behavior now occurs right at boot - it hangs a long time
>> (~2 min) at the first two steps after grub loads:
>> Loading Linux 2.6.32-5-686 - ~ 1 min
>> Loading initial ramdisk - ~1 min
>> There is only 1 gig of ram in the system, so the ram disk cannot be that
>> large! -
>> Ouput from top:
>> top - 18:09:05 up 1 min, 2 users, load average: 0.27, 0.16, 0.06
>> Tasks: 84 total, 1 running, 83 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
>> Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
>> Mem: 1032772k total, 176740k used, 856032k free, 6916k buffers
>> Swap: 2017272k total, 0k used, 2017272k free, 90536k cached
>>
>> Is there anything I should do at this point, or just keep it running?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mark
>>
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