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  please help! debain won't boot Jason Brenkus <jasonbrenkus@gmail.com> - 2017-12-13 10:50 +0100
    Re: please help! debain won't boot Jeroen Mathon <jeroenmathonmac@gmail.com> - 2017-12-13 11:00 +0100
    Re: please help! debain won't boot bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2017-12-13 11:20 +0100
    Re: please help! debian won't boot Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă <I.M.Ciobica@gmail.com> - 2017-12-13 11:20 +0100
      Re: please help! debian won't boot Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-12-13 20:00 +0100
        Re: please help! debian won't boot Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă <I.M.Ciobica@gmail.com> - 2017-12-13 20:40 +0100
          Re: please help! debian won't boot Jason Brenkus <jasonbrenkus@gmail.com> - 2017-12-14 08:10 +0100
            Re: please help! debian won't boot Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2017-12-14 08:50 +0100
            Re: please help! debian won't boot Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-12-14 09:10 +0100
            Re: please help! debian won't boot Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă <I.M.Ciobica@gmail.com> - 2017-12-20 12:10 +0100
    Re: please help! debain won't boot Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2017-12-13 19:40 +0100
    Re: please help! debain won't boot davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2017-12-13 19:50 +0100
      Re: please help! debain won't boot davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2017-12-13 20:10 +0100

#189840 — please help! debain won't boot

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I am a novice to linux, and I'm in over my head. I'm not sure what went
wrong or went. I am running Jessie. On startup the pc begins to load and
then goes to a screen with nothing but a cursor. Then nothing happens no
matter how long i wait. If i boot in to recover mode i get a screen that
says #IPv6: ADDRCONF (NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready. And no
amount of waiting changes it. I had trouble getting the correct drivers for
my gpu which is a amd radeon r9 270 i believe. The last thing i did before
the system didn't boot was install a mining program.

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#189841

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Does this mining program automatically start at boot?

And have you tried running your system with generic graphic drivers?


Also your installation did boot becaouse i am sure that you will be able
to interact via a free tty.


On 12/13/2017 10:41 AM, Jason Brenkus wrote:
> mining program.

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#189843

On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, Jason Brenkus wrote:

> I am a novice to linux, and I'm in over my head. I'm not sure what went
> wrong or went. I am running Jessie. On startup the pc begins to load and
> then goes to a screen with nothing but a cursor. Then nothing happens no
> matter how long i wait. If i boot in to recover mode i get a screen that
> says #IPv6: ADDRCONF (NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready. And no
> amount of waiting changes it. I had trouble getting the correct drivers for
> my gpu which is a amd radeon r9 270 i believe. The last thing i did before
> the system didn't boot was install a mining program.
> 


It won't do much good to panic, take your time if you want to fix it.  
Don't follow advice you don't understand.  It is sometimes easier for new 
people to just reinstall.

To help you narrow down the issue, did you do any of the things found 
here?

https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian

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#189844 — Re: please help! debian won't boot

On 13-12-2017, at 01h 41'15", Jason Brenkus wrote about "please help! debian won't boot"
> I am a novice to linux, and I'm in over my head. I'm not sure what went
> wrong or went. I am running Jessie. On startup the pc begins to load and
> then goes to a screen with nothing but a cursor. Then nothing happens no
> matter how long i wait. If i boot in to recover mode i get a screen that
> says #IPv6: ADDRCONF (NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready. And no
> amount of waiting changes it. I had trouble getting the correct drivers for
> my gpu which is a amd radeon r9 270 i believe. The last thing i did before
> the system didn't boot was install a mining program.


Hi,

Not knowing that is wrong I would reinstall grub. Boot with a live
disk or with the install disk and reinstall grub. If you need help
with all the steps please ask. But also try to capture the last two
lines or so when the system is booting before it gets to the blank
screen. It is important to know if the system stops before or after
loading the kernel, etc.

Good luck.

Ionel


P.S. I took the liberty to correct debain into debian.

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#189868 — Re: please help! debian won't boot

Le 13/12/2017 à 10:54, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă a écrit :
> On 13-12-2017, at 01h 41'15", Jason Brenkus wrote about "please help! debian won't boot"
>> I am a novice to linux, and I'm in over my head. I'm not sure what went
>> wrong or went. I am running Jessie. On startup the pc begins to load and
>> then goes to a screen with nothing but a cursor. Then nothing happens no
>> matter how long i wait. If i boot in to recover mode i get a screen that
>> says #IPv6: ADDRCONF (NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready. And no
>> amount of waiting changes it. I had trouble getting the correct drivers for
>> my gpu which is a amd radeon r9 270 i believe. The last thing i did before
>> the system didn't boot was install a mining program.
> 
> Not knowing that is wrong I would reinstall grub.

IMO it would be a total waste of time. What makes you think that GRUB is 
broken ?

> It is important to know if the system stops before or after
> loading the kernel, etc.

We already know. The above message happens when the ethernet interface 
is activated, which means that the kernel was loaded and started, the 
initramfs was loaded and did its job and the init system started its tasks.

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#189871 — Re: please help! debian won't boot

On 13-12-2017, at 19h 55'54", Pascal Hambourg wrote about "Re: please help! debian won't boot"
> Le 13/12/2017 à 10:54, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă a écrit :
> >On 13-12-2017, at 01h 41'15", Jason Brenkus wrote about "please help! debian won't boot"
> >>I am a novice to linux, and I'm in over my head. I'm not sure what went
> >>wrong or went. I am running Jessie. On startup the pc begins to load and
> >>then goes to a screen with nothing but a cursor. Then nothing happens no
> >>matter how long i wait. If i boot in to recover mode i get a screen that
> >>says #IPv6: ADDRCONF (NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready. And no
> >>amount of waiting changes it. I had trouble getting the correct drivers for
> >>my gpu which is a amd radeon r9 270 i believe. The last thing i did before
> >>the system didn't boot was install a mining program.
> >
> >Not knowing that is wrong I would reinstall grub.
> 
> IMO it would be a total waste of time. What makes you think that GRUB is
> broken ?

When you do not know too much about what is the status of the system
anything may be a total waste of time.

In the past when using Lilo I got this kind of behaviour. Instead of
loading the kernel, just after BIOS I would ket a blinking cursor.

> >It is important to know if the system stops before or after
> >loading the kernel, etc.
> 
> We already know. The above message happens when the ethernet interface is
> activated, which means that the kernel was loaded and started, the initramfs
> was loaded and did its job and the init system started its tasks.

Then you know more than me. I will say then that X config is broken.

What induced me in error was the word cursor. For me that was in tty1
a blinking underscore line. What Jason may have meant was an X shape
mouse, for example.

Ionel

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#189876 — Re: please help! debian won't boot

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By cursor what I mean is a flashing underscore line. I tried reinstalling
grub2 using super grub. At first I didn't think anything happened, but now
I'm getting more then a blinking cursor.  The screen now says #floppy0: no
floppy controllers found
# r8169 0000:03:00.0 eth0: link up
# Ipv6: ADDCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready.

I tried to record the script that show before this screen and it looks like
there is a lot loading, but I saw one place in the script that had a red
FAILED and it looks like it says #failed to start load kernel modules
It would probably be easier to reinstall, but I'm trying to learn linux.
Any more suggestions?

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 11:34 AM, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă <
I.M.Ciobica@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 13-12-2017, at 19h 55'54", Pascal Hambourg wrote about "Re: please
> help! debian won't boot"
> > Le 13/12/2017 à 10:54, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă a écrit :
> > >On 13-12-2017, at 01h 41'15", Jason Brenkus wrote about "please help!
> debian won't boot"
> > >>I am a novice to linux, and I'm in over my head. I'm not sure what went
> > >>wrong or went. I am running Jessie. On startup the pc begins to load
> and
> > >>then goes to a screen with nothing but a cursor. Then nothing happens
> no
> > >>matter how long i wait. If i boot in to recover mode i get a screen
> that
> > >>says #IPv6: ADDRCONF (NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready. And no
> > >>amount of waiting changes it. I had trouble getting the correct
> drivers for
> > >>my gpu which is a amd radeon r9 270 i believe. The last thing i did
> before
> > >>the system didn't boot was install a mining program.
> > >
> > >Not knowing that is wrong I would reinstall grub.
> >
> > IMO it would be a total waste of time. What makes you think that GRUB is
> > broken ?
>
> When you do not know too much about what is the status of the system
> anything may be a total waste of time.
>
> In the past when using Lilo I got this kind of behaviour. Instead of
> loading the kernel, just after BIOS I would ket a blinking cursor.
>
> > >It is important to know if the system stops before or after
> > >loading the kernel, etc.
> >
> > We already know. The above message happens when the ethernet interface is
> > activated, which means that the kernel was loaded and started, the
> initramfs
> > was loaded and did its job and the init system started its tasks.
>
> Then you know more than me. I will say then that X config is broken.
>
> What induced me in error was the word cursor. For me that was in tty1
> a blinking underscore line. What Jason may have meant was an X shape
> mouse, for example.
>
> Ionel
>
>

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#189878 — Re: please help! debian won't boot

When you downloaded what you used to install debian, did the file have a 
.torrent on the end of it?  If not you may have better luck by using a 
bittorrent client and downloading the torrent form of the file.  Reason 
is integrity checks get done as you download and it could be you got a 
bad download using another form of download file.  Another suggestion I 
would make since you may have some pretty far out hardware is to 
download the image that starts with firmware- and ends with .torrent. 
It should also have x86 somewhere in the name of the image to match as 
closely as possible your hardware.  Good luck.

On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, Jason Brenkus wrote:

> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 02:02:29
> From: Jason Brenkus <jasonbrenkus@gmail.com>
> To: Ionel Mugurel Ciob?c? <I.M.Ciobica@gmail.com>,
>     debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: please help! debian won't boot
> Resent-Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 07:02:48 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> 
> By cursor what I mean is a flashing underscore line. I tried reinstalling
> grub2 using super grub. At first I didn't think anything happened, but now
> I'm getting more then a blinking cursor.  The screen now says #floppy0: no
> floppy controllers found
> # r8169 0000:03:00.0 eth0: link up
> # Ipv6: ADDCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready.
>
> I tried to record the script that show before this screen and it looks like
> there is a lot loading, but I saw one place in the script that had a red
> FAILED and it looks like it says #failed to start load kernel modules
> It would probably be easier to reinstall, but I'm trying to learn linux.
> Any more suggestions?
>
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 11:34 AM, Ionel Mugurel Ciob?c? <
> I.M.Ciobica@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 13-12-2017, at 19h 55'54", Pascal Hambourg wrote about "Re: please
>> help! debian won't boot"
>>> Le 13/12/2017 ? 10:54, Ionel Mugurel Ciob?c? a ?crit :
>>>> On 13-12-2017, at 01h 41'15", Jason Brenkus wrote about "please help!
>> debian won't boot"
>>>>> I am a novice to linux, and I'm in over my head. I'm not sure what went
>>>>> wrong or went. I am running Jessie. On startup the pc begins to load
>> and
>>>>> then goes to a screen with nothing but a cursor. Then nothing happens
>> no
>>>>> matter how long i wait. If i boot in to recover mode i get a screen
>> that
>>>>> says #IPv6: ADDRCONF (NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready. And no
>>>>> amount of waiting changes it. I had trouble getting the correct
>> drivers for
>>>>> my gpu which is a amd radeon r9 270 i believe. The last thing i did
>> before
>>>>> the system didn't boot was install a mining program.
>>>>
>>>> Not knowing that is wrong I would reinstall grub.
>>>
>>> IMO it would be a total waste of time. What makes you think that GRUB is
>>> broken ?
>>
>> When you do not know too much about what is the status of the system
>> anything may be a total waste of time.
>>
>> In the past when using Lilo I got this kind of behaviour. Instead of
>> loading the kernel, just after BIOS I would ket a blinking cursor.
>>
>>>> It is important to know if the system stops before or after
>>>> loading the kernel, etc.
>>>
>>> We already know. The above message happens when the ethernet interface is
>>> activated, which means that the kernel was loaded and started, the
>> initramfs
>>> was loaded and did its job and the init system started its tasks.
>>
>> Then you know more than me. I will say then that X config is broken.
>>
>> What induced me in error was the word cursor. For me that was in tty1
>> a blinking underscore line. What Jason may have meant was an X shape
>> mouse, for example.
>>
>> Ionel
>>
>>
>

-- 

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#189879 — Re: please help! debian won't boot

Jason Brenkus composed on 2017-12-13 23:02 (UTC-0800):

> By cursor what I mean is a flashing underscore line. I tried reinstalling
> grub2 using super grub. At first I didn't think anything happened, but now
> I'm getting more then a blinking cursor.  The screen now says #floppy0: no
> floppy controllers found
> # r8169 0000:03:00.0 eth0: link up
> # Ipv6: ADDCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready.                 

Did you try keying in Ctrl-Alt-F2 after seeing nothing more?

> I tried to record the script that show before this screen and it looks like
> there is a lot loading, but I saw one place in the script that had a red
> FAILED and it looks like it says #failed to start load kernel modules
> It would probably be easier to reinstall, but I'm trying to learn linux.
> Any more suggestions?                                         

What did you mean when you wrote "recover mode"? Was that a Grub menu choice?
Were there any other menu choices available, such as prior kernel? You could try
appending to the main grub selection "plymouth.enable=0', and/or removing any
cmdline options mentioning modeset, quiet, splash, gfxmode, vga and/or video.
-- 
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get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation)

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#190056 — Re: please help! debian won't boot

On 13-12-2017, at 23h 02'29", Jason Brenkus wrote about "Re: please help! debian won't boot"
> By cursor what I mean is a flashing underscore line. I tried reinstalling
> grub2 using super grub. At first I didn't think anything happened, but now
> I'm getting more then a blinking cursor.  The screen now says #floppy0: no
> floppy controllers found
> # r8169 0000:03:00.0 eth0: link up
> # Ipv6: ADDCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready.
> 
> I tried to record the script that show before this screen and it looks like
> there is a lot loading, but I saw one place in the script that had a red
> FAILED and it looks like it says #failed to start load kernel modules
> It would probably be easier to reinstall, but I'm trying to learn linux.
> Any more suggestions?
> 

Not more that what already was discussed. It looks like your Debian
boots fine. Try to access a console with Ctrl-Alt-Fn, where n=2-6, or
with Shift-Fn, if Ctrl-Alt-Fn doesn't work. Then login at the console
and check the logs.

If you have another computer you can try to ping or even ssh into this
Debian box. You can check your router and try to identify from the
dhcp clients list which one can be your Debian box.

If you have no other computers and you can't get into any console, try
to boot with a live disk, mount the harddrive and check the logs for
clues on what went wrong.

My best guess at the moment is that your kdm/gdm/xdm and X11 cannot
start due to a faulty xorg.conf file. All those messages that
disappeared are still there. You can get back to it with Ctrl-Alt-F1
or Shift-F1.


Ionel

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#189866

On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 01:41:15 -0800 Jason Brenkus
<jasonbrenkus@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am a novice to linux, and I'm in over my head. I'm not sure what
> went wrong or went. I am running Jessie. On startup the pc begins to
> load and then goes to a screen with nothing but a cursor. Then
> nothing happens no matter how long i wait. If i boot in to recover
> mode i get a screen that says #IPv6: ADDRCONF (NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0:
> link becomes ready. And no amount of waiting changes it. I had
> trouble getting the correct drivers for my gpu which is a amd radeon
> r9 270 i believe. The last thing i did before the system didn't boot
> was install a mining program.

Did you read, study and follow the iinstructions in the Installation
Manual for Jessie?

If you got a screen with a cursor, I'd say X, the Linux graphic server
is running, but the login manager and/or desktop software did not load.
You probably made a mistake during the install.

Before wasting more time, read the Installation Manual thoroughly, and
reinstall Jessie.  Don't worry about the "correct driver" for your
gpu.  See how the system works with what the installer chooses.

Also, the Debian site has a lot of HELPME docs to familiarize you with
Debian.  Take the time to read some of them.

And remember: Linux isn't Windows.  So, don't assume what you do on
Windows to get things to work will work on Linux.

B

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#189867

On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, Jason Brenkus wrote:

> I am a novice to linux, and I'm in over my head. I'm not sure what
> went wrong or went. I am running Jessie. On startup the pc begins to
> load and then goes to a screen with nothing but a cursor. Then
> nothing happens no matter how long i wait. If i boot in to recover
> mode i get a screen that says #IPv6: ADDRCONF (NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0:
> link becomes ready. And no amount of waiting changes it.

In case you care to follow up on Jeroen Mathon's suspicion that your
system has in fact booted, and that you can probably log in on a
virtual terminal:

Once you arrive at the situation you've described, what happens if you
hold down both the Ctrl key and Alt key and press the F6 key?

Do you get a screen with

  Debian GNU/Linux 8 YOUR_HOSTNAME tty6

  YOUR_HOSTNAME login:

and a cursor?

Can you enter a username, and then (when prompted) the corresponding
password?

> I had trouble getting the correct drivers for my gpu which is a amd
> radeon r9 270 i believe. The last thing i did before the system
> didn't boot was install a mining program.

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#189869

On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, davidson wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, Jason Brenkus wrote:
>
>> I am a novice to linux, and I'm in over my head. I'm not sure what
>> went wrong or went. I am running Jessie. On startup the pc begins to
>> load and then goes to a screen with nothing but a cursor. Then
>> nothing happens no matter how long i wait. If i boot in to recover
>> mode i get a screen that says #IPv6: ADDRCONF (NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0:
>> link becomes ready. And no amount of waiting changes it.
>
> In case you care to follow up on Jeroen Mathon's suspicion that your
> system has in fact booted, and that you can probably log in on a
> virtual terminal:
>
> Once you arrive at the situation you've described,

To clarify: By "the situation you've described," I mean when you
attempt to start up normally, and then reach the screen with nothing
but a cursor.

In other words, I'm not talking about recovery mode.

> what happens if you
> hold down both the Ctrl key and Alt key and press the F6 key?
>
> Do you get a screen with
>
> Debian GNU/Linux 8 YOUR_HOSTNAME tty6
>
> YOUR_HOSTNAME login:
>
> and a cursor?
>
> Can you enter a username, and then (when prompted) the corresponding
> password?
>
>> I had trouble getting the correct drivers for my gpu which is a amd
>> radeon r9 270 i believe. The last thing i did before the system
>> didn't boot was install a mining program.
>
>

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