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i tried burning an image and the progress bar got stuck at 16%. i then closed the program using the gui but it hung. i then issued a "killall xfburn" which completed. however the drive is still spinning away and becoming quite warm. i have a new and confusing message:
[au@arroyo1 ~]$ ps aux|grep sr0
root 2247 0.0 0.0 17780 1220 ? S Aug25 0:02 hald-addon-storage: no polling because /dev/sr0 is locked via O_EXCL
au 20456 0.0 0.0 7772 940 pts/1 R+ 22:26 0:00 grep sr0
what on earth does this mean?
thanks
Last edited by poopship21 (2009-11-26 15:36:27)
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I read one forum (http://www.nabble.com/Hald-polling-devi … 24991.html) that seemed to indicate this type of issue was a problem with hal. I noticed in my system update last night that there was a new version of hal, so maybe try installing it and seeing if that helps at all.
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thats possible, but ill never know since it ended up getting so bad that when i rebooted, i couldnt even login anymore (the passwords for all users were completely inaccessible). no choice but to wipe everything. the strangest thing was that i had some music files stored on an lvm volume, which was recognized by the live cd that i used to reinstall arch on A COMPLETELY NEW DISK, however when i experimented with mounting this old volume on the root partition of the new disk, /arch/setup crashed (the only warning that i had was executing vi on /etc/rc.conf during configuration and getting an empty file). the location of /etc/rc.conf was given as /mnt/etc/rc,conf so apparently even chrooting failed in /arch/setup.
the following statements are commonly appreciated by morons:
"it takes a village"
"cancer will be solved"
"no new taxes"
"COMPROMISED LVM2 VOLUMES ARE POISON!"
one of these statements is true, heheh <winces in pain>
Last edited by poopship21 (2009-08-29 05:20:09)
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Ouch, that's harsh!
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so believe it or not i believe that the answer was PSU replacement. after trying unsuccessfully in lists with lots of systems people, i eliminated all hardware components except the PSU by trial and error.
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