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

[stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net]

On Saturday 06 June 2009 01:47:34 pm O. Sinclair wrote:
> 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

This is such a difficult way to work.  I just lost the response to this email 
because I forgot to change the user identity.  Kmail did not save my email or 
put it in the draft folder, it just disappeared.

This system, that is not working, has an approved stable set of software.  
Jaunty kde 4.2.2.  I was not doing anything strange at all.  I was using the 
GUI package manager provided as default for the system to install a very 
common Kubuntu package, xine.  When the package manager suggested I needed to 
install dependencies, I clicked on apply.  What non experimental thing would 
you have done?  When I clicked on 'Apply'.  The system crashed.

I took the advice of another List expert and shut completely down a couple of 
times, with over a minute wait between attempts.  Nothing changed except now I 
get a window with repair options that did not come on screen  before.

Among the options that were provided by the computer, I chose and executed 
'Repair broken packages'.  Next I chose and executed 'fsck'.  I was stopped at 
a certain point in the process, where there was a warning that if I continued, 
I could do damage to the partitions.  I ceased fsck at that point.  I tried 
xfix to see if there was a graphics problem that could be resolved.  I did not 
try 'Update grub boot loader' because for me that would be experimenting, 
something I try not to do anymore.

When I dropped to a root shell, I typed in shutdown now, but the above repair 
choices just kept coming back to the screen.  So, I typed in sudo shutdown now 
-r and put the live CD back in the ROM.

After opening using the live CD and reconfiguring Kmail, I received and am 
responding to your email.  If you know how to fix the problem, please help me.  
I can see nothing I did to cause this crash, other than trying to install an 
approved package using an approved package manager.  Thanks!

Steven