On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 8:51 PM Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 19:36:08 -0400, Aruna Hewapathirane said:
but after selecting the new kernel at the GRUB2 menu it hangs at the graphical login and I am stumped.
Does control-alt-F2, -F3, -F4 get you line mode consoles? If so, you should be able to login, and get dmesg, the X server log, and the logs for whatever greeter program runs for graphical login.
No my keyboard is locked not responsive just the numLock led is on, so unable to control-alt-F2 :-(
If you can't get a line mode console, check if it's answering ping, and if it's answering any tcp or udp based services (if you have any enabled). Another thing to look at is netconsole to send kernel messages to a syslog server running on another machine (or netcat at the destination if it doesn't have syslog running),
I found a 500Gb ssd inside one of the old machines and I started from scratch. Pulled out the two cables from the harddisks and plugged in the ssd, installed debian-10.10.0-amd64-netinst.iso then tried to compile kernel 5.12.13 from kernel.org and voila et success. And under 13 minutes to full compile. Also compiled linux-next-next-20210625 no issues, everything is good again. Someday I want to try and figure out what is going on with the original system. Oh, and Thomas Syslog tells me : Jun 25 10:46:42 debian systemd-modules-load[201]: Failed to find module 'vmhgfs' Jun 25 10:46:42 debian systemd[1]: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules. Jun 25 10:46:42 debian systemd[1]: Unit systemd-modules-load.service entered failed state. Does that make sense to you or anyone ? Anyways things are all good. I just have to pull out cables and hook up the ssd when I feel like compiling a kernel, which I can live with :-) Cindy Sue Causey I was wondering is there a 'reason' you are sticking with 'lilo' and not moving to grub2 ? Thank you everyone for all the help and support - Aruna