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Installation issues / LMCE Launch manager: Fatal I/O error. Client killed - Loop?

« on: August 29, 2008, 05:48:42 am »

This is a tangent from my original post "Re: AMD 64 - Clean install problems - seeking divine intervention" .  I searched on the message I'm getting (subject of this thread) and didn't see anything relevant except http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=5407.0

The latest on my installation is that the LinuxMCE 0710 install package seemed to install without incident.  It did take a while though and there were a few "fail" messages that flashed past the screen.  I chose the option to run the LMCE as the default and open KDE if needed.  and opted for a "core-only" set up.

Upon reboot, I get a rapid series of rising tones and then the system enters what seems like an endless loop of blank screen followed by an "[OK]" in the upper right corner, followed by blinking cursor in the upper left corner of the screen, followed by text at the bottom of the screen that says "LMCE Launch manager: Fatal I/O error.  Client killed"

[Overnight update]  I let the system run ver night and now I'm seeing an repeating message of "lmce_launch_manager: cannot connect to X server :0".  I can't seem to break out of this but if I press "ENTER"  I'm prompted to log in to DCEROUTER$.  I can't seem to enter mu username and password fast enough to beat the next error message.  Pressing Alt-F2, Alt-F3 brings up propts for tty2, tty3 respectively. 

This appears to repeat over and over until I kill it with a ctrl-alt-delete.

Any thoughts?

Larry

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Installation issues / AMD 64 - Clean install problems - seeking divine intervention

« on: August 26, 2008, 05:52:03 pm »

Dear Guardian Angels of the LinuxMCE world,

First off, thank you for your willingness to help new folks like me get into or make the transition to Linux.  I hope someday to be among you helping out the next guy or gal. But today, I ask for your help in getting through some difficulty I'm having with a new intallation on a clean (just assembled machine). 

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Here's my hardware:

XFX nForce - NVIDIA 750a SLI (MD-A72P-7509)  <<= correction 08/27/08 12:20pm EST I had originally posted the wrong part number
  (ATX, HDMI, DVI, PCIe 2.0, eSATA, RAID SLI Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Processor ADO4400IAA5DO - 2.30GHz, 1MB Cache, 1000MHz (2000 MT/s) FSB, Brisbane, Dual-Core, OEM, Socket AM2, Processor
2 GB RAM (Corsair DDR2, 667mhz)
Seagate 500GB SATA HD (7200/32MB/SATA-3G)
LiteOn SuperAllWrite DVD-RW (iHAS220-08 6)
RubyOrb CPU fan (CL-P0391-01)
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1250
PS2 Optical Mouse
PS2 Keyboard
VGA Monitor
Gladiator Ultra ATX Case/500watt power supply
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Here's what I've tried:

I have attempted three different installations:

LinuxMCE DVD 0704 32bit (purchased from linuxmce.org not burned)
 -- Ended with Busybox initramfs prompt
 -- tried F6 and adding vga=791 all_generic_ide noacpi pci=routeirq in various combinations
 -- tried F6 and removing ro quiet splash
 -- No Go.

The new 0710 installation as described here with 64 bit .ISOs:
http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Installation_Guide#New_installation
 -- Ended with Busybox initramfs prompt
 -- tried F6 and adding vga=791 all_generic_ide noacpi pci=routeirq in various combinations
 -- tried F6 and removing ro quiet splash
 -- At one point I actually got what looked like the KDE desktop but I lost mouse control


and a LinuxMCE 0710 DVD D/L'd from the torrent below and burned to DVD at 4x (http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/4175299/LinuxMCE_Install_DVD_for_AMD64_-_0710_RC2.4175299.TPB.torrent)
 -- After what appeared to be a stop or break in the install, I think I typed exit and the install continued.
 -- The installation appeared to proceed to completion, formatted disk, uncompressed and copied the DVD to the HD, DVD drawer opened, installation complete, remove CD and reboot.
 -- On reboot, hang black screen, hard drive light on.  Left that way over night, no change by morning.
 -- rebooted, used F6 to interrupt GRUB and modified start script in various ways as described in the forum and as above.  see photos below:

Grub details
http://picasaweb.google.com/lwdiener/LinuxMCE/photo?authkey=hEWrW49oylI#5238850873287784130

Error message
http://picasaweb.google.com/lwdiener/LinuxMCE/photo?authkey=hEWrW49oylI#5238850862867479634
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   Check root= bootarg cat /proc/cmdline
   or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev
ALERT! /dev/dusk/by-uuid/82bcede9-2ffa-4c00-b69f-7dcb33927fbf does not exist.  Dropping to a shell!
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I've have read a great many forum threads here, and on the Ubuntu and Kubuntu boards before posting this request and have attempted several things as recommended.  I was not sure how to actually try some of the modifications (such as that described by LeeAdkins at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=580903  because I don't know how to get into the editors without first having a working installation.  Any assistance regarding how I might proceed would be appreciated.

Thank you,

Larry