[ug-bosug] System Rescue

[USM Bish]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I could boot into the "failsafe" option, but then, that leads me to a
>>>> root prompt, with the full system mounted at /a. I cannot replicate
>>>> the error which is causing the boot failure. Probably this is some
>>>> kind of IRQ conflict (I cannot imagine anything else which can go
>>>> wrong after OSS install).
>>>>
>>>> How do I proceed from here ?
>>>
>>>   You need to boot into Single-user mode. in GRUB screen select the
>>>   boot entry and press 'e'. Now select the "kernel ..." line, scroll to the
>>>   end and add ' -s'. Press ENTER and 'b' to boot.
>>>
>>>   You will get down to your familiar single-user console login prompt.
>>>   You can also see what errors are being spewed on the screen.
>>>

This trick worked. I could get into single user login, and examine
the system. It does seem like an OSS issue. I assume this by
exclusion. I renamed all ~/.gnome related setup configs and dot
dirs, to no avail. Then I did a pkgrm   of oss. In the process I
was told that six config files inclusive of nwam could not be
restored. On rebooting, as expected, no joy.

I would be re-installing all over again. The Indiana 2008.05 is
recently out. Will give that a whirl ...

Thanks for the guidance, Moinak,

Bish