OT on :Re: kinit: no resume image, doing normal boot "urgent please" using live CD and need my computer back.

[O. Sinclair]

Steven,
you are the natural software tester, please enroll with Microsoft, 
Novell, Oracle or any other large corporation.

I am of course joking but your plethora of problems remind me of my 
distant days as a software developer. We had a team member we named "the 
bug" simply because he would try something we more squareminded 
developers never even thought of. And so our nice piece of code would 
instantly crash the app or the system!


stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net wrote:
> My system crashed while I was installing xine.  I had installed the 
> appropriate packages, and a window opened suggesting dependencies that were 
> needed.  I clicked on apply, and got a notice I did not have sufficient 
> permissions.  Since I was using kpackagekit, I thought I had already 
> extablished sufficient permissions.  That was when the computer crashed, and I 
> had to shutdown using the off button.
> 
> When I booted up, I got the "subject" as the last line of a konsole.  It was 
> also suggested I try:  /dev/disk/by-uuid/cc9e070-52d6-41dj-81f4-9851083l436d) 
> = dev(8,3)
> 
> When I entered the command, I got the following:
> 
> -bash unexpected syntax error near token ')'
> 
> The next line read:
> 
> steven at yeshua:~$  [  172.060886] end_request:  I/O error on device sdd, sector 
> O
> 
> This was followed by 12 lines endiing with ldm_validate_partition_table 
> ():Disk read failed
> 
> None of this makes any sense to me.  Can anyone help me get my system back.
> 
> 
> Steven
>