On 11/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">MLT</b> <<a href="mailto:mstruscott@optusnet.com.au">mstruscott@optusnet.com.au</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
When I boot messages are as normal except for a message at the bottom saying:<br><br>Kernel direct mapping tables up to 1000 0000 @ 8000-8000</blockquote><div><br>Normal, I believe. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Then at the point I would expect usplash to start the screen blanks and I am<br>left with a white cursor in the top left.<br><br>If I change to tty1 then I get the following error message:<br><br>5e411d60:4c7d4512 F1 ILLEGAL X86 OPCODE!
</blockquote><div><br>Something not right there.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">It then notifies me that the 4 logical volume are now active and then the
<br>following message:<br><br>5e411d60:4c7d4512 63 ILLEGAL X86 OPCODE!<br><br>The computer then seems to do a complete check of the file system which the<br>system passes. The system then does a very slow boot to an x terminal, there
<br>are no errors posted during this process.</blockquote><div><br>My upgrade does this fsck too, or at least appears to - I presume it's to do with journaling in EXT3 as it's a very quick filesystem check. I'd suggest it was "normal" and not part of your issue.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The system then goes into kdm which will accept input for a short time (I<br>think until a return key is pressed) then the keyboard is ignored for x or a
<br>console and there is no acceptance of any other USB input. The machine will<br>then boot properly but no input is possible. It is possible to login from a<br>ssh session but there is no bash/dash shell just a "dumb" $.
</blockquote><div><br>This isn't normal obviously...<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">At this point my knowledge stops. Any suggestions?
</blockquote><div><br>I'm afraid I've got no idea - one of the issues with upgrading to a testing release I guess. I think I'd start with attempting to determine what code is loaded at location 5e411d60:4c7d451 - get rid of that and I'd suspect that there's a strong chance that your non-responsive keyboard issue may improve.
<br><br>Do you have any exotic hardware attached to this machine - USB card readers, webcam, etc? Output of "lspci" perhaps - anything else in the message or syslog file, or even dmesg?<br></div></div><br>If it's any consolation, this is the sort of problem which testing Edgy is supposed to reveal - it's just a bummer when it reveals itself on your machine...
<br><br>-- <br>Steve<br>Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black...