[NBLUG/talk] Udev and GDM Greeter

[Tim Preston]

The drive might be failing and causing itself to be mounted later!? Have 
you tried it from a reset and opposed to a power off restart?

It sure sounded like a bios issue, or ide cable issue, or lastly a drive 
issue. Which brought me to the former conclusion.

Hope that helps.


Stephen Cilley wrote:
> It's deffinately not the BIOS, it wasn't acting this
> way with the last install and I was using the exact
> same BIOS settings.  Any other thoughts?
> Thank you,
> Stephen
> 
> --- Troy Arnold <troy at zenux.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 12:57:42PM -0700, Stephen
>>Cilley wrote:
>>
>>>I just did a debian install last night and I've
>>
>>got
>>
>>>two problems, one seems like a bug, the other is
>>
>>just
>>
>>>my inability to formulate proper google searches.
>>>So I did the install on the first and only ide hdd
>>
>>in
>>
>>>the computer.  Other than that drive I have 2 dvd
>>>drives, and two SATA drives (and a floppy.)  I
>>
>>reboot
>>
>>>and it comes up with some very strange looking
>>
>>error
>>
>>>about not being able to get at the root partition.
>>
>> I
>>
>>>look at the fstab and it looks like the installer
>>
>>has
>>
>>>mistakenly referred to all of the partitions on
>>
>>the
>>
>>>ide drive by /dev/hde instead of /dev/hda and the
>>
>>grub
>>
>>>and mtab have the same thing.  So I changed it and
>>
>>it
>>
>>>booted alright, and then I reboot again and it
>>
>>says
>>
>>>the same thing, only this time it's looking at hda
>>
>>and
>>
>>>it's actually at hde.  I reboot about 10 more
>>
>>times
>>
>>>just to test, and it is completely randomly
>>>fluctuating between the two.  Has udev gone crazy?
>>
>>As much as a pain in the ass udev is, I don't think
>>udev is causing this
>>problem.  Perhaps your computer's BIOS is
>>initializing devices in an
>>inconsistent order?  See what kind of options your
>>BIOS has for specifying
>>this.
>>
>>
>>>Second, and I realize this may be a bit of a
>>
>>stupid
>>
>>>question, but how do I escape the gdm greeter?  It
>>>installed it automatically during the debian
>>
>>install
>>
>>>and now I can't get out of X (every time I kill
>>
>>it, it
>>
>>>just resurrects itself.)
>>
>>/etc/init.d/gdm stop
>>or
>>apt-get remove gdm
>>
>>-t
>>
>>
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