[AuckLUG] Failed boot

[Ron Johns]

Banjo Donila wrote:
> interesting.. out of curiosity... create another account and login.  Lets see how it goes.  Before whenever I have any problem after a successful login in the splash login.  I just delete all that dot files in my home.
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> Ron Johns <ronaldj at orcon.net.nz> wrote: Hi All,
>        back again , and as far out of my depth as usual. :-).
> Problem...
>           An NEC Versa laptop running Fedora Moonshine was plugged into 
> a broadband connection in error, I wasn't there at the time but the 
> pluggie reports that he "thinks" the machine did some reconfiguring .
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> The end result is that the machine goes through a normal boot up 
> procedure up to the point
> where it would normally bring up the log on screen.At that point it just 
> sits and spins its little wheel....apparently for as long as your happy 
> to let it.
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> I've been through all the log messages and can find no startling errors 
> although I may be missing something of significance through inexperience.
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> The machine ,on start up has in the start up screen the following ? 
> error ? message...
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> Starting PC/SC Smartcard daemon (pcscd) : (Traceback most recent call last)
>  File  "/usr/sbin/setroubleshootd", line 71 in 
>    from setroubleshoot.server import RunFaultServer
>  File " /usr/lib/python 2.5/site-packages/setroubleshoot/server.py", 
> line 35 in 
>    From setroubleshoot.analyse.import
>  File " /usr/lib/python 
> 2.5/site-packages/setroubleshoot/anylyse.py",line 35 in 
>     From setroubleshoot.avc_audit.import "
>  File " File " /usr/lib/python 2.5/site-packages/setroubleshoot/
> from setrouble.signature import AVC. AvcContex
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> Value Error Bad Marshall Data :
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> The above might not be dead accurate as I'm typing from computer to 
> computer as the stuff rushes by on the screen.Is there any log in which 
> this stuff is recorded word for word ?
> Have had a good look and can't find it.
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> Well
> Any help GREATLY appreciated
> Regards
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Thanks very much for taking the time to reply ; could you please spoon 
feed me on how to set up an account using only command line input 
(rescue disk at that)
Haven't had to use the command line that much ,being a GUI noobie but 
very keen to learn.
Many Thanks
Ron