[DC LoCo] linux firmware may have killed my alpha

[jerry w]

Thanks Daniel for helping identify it,
I would have thought firmware

at first worried about hardware,
(we had a garbage truck hit power lines
and lost A/C and telephone and stuff
yesterday (and lost my TV, and
main door security system a few weeks
ago, but the garbage truck hit power lines
was about the same time
so worried on power/ hardware)
but M$ touchpad and mouse worked,
so eliminated that as a possible...

In the meantime I mucked around with
different display managers,
kdm, xdm, wdm
and can't get startx and gnome
to run even from recovery/ rescue modes...

Internet was intermittent too,
but that was between keyboard and chair...

so I did the mv /run /runOLD
or the best I remembered across OS and booting
one bug report says
sudo rm -r /run

and done lots of update upgrades
though without gnome I can't do update manager
but have started playing with aptitude again ;-)
for lack of knowing package names...

Anyways, will await a bug fix,
hopefully as easy as update upgrade,
or further instructions via Jeremy Bicha or similar...

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Dan Chen <seven.steps at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 00:16, Dan Chen <seven.steps at gmail.com> wrote:
>> In short, it's a pretty wide-ranging symptom stemming from changes to
>> support /run. See
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/807306
>
> ...And FWIW, I just ran into this symptom myself and was able to work
> around it by munging /run. Definitely not a fix but a workaround.
>



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Jerry W