Am Sonntag, 17. März 2013 schrieb Ken Heard:
On 2013-03-14 21:46, Uwe Brauer wrote:
I have installed Kubuntu 10.04 with trinity 3.5.11 (I think) on a X60 Thinkpad Laptop. This morning the xerver freezed and I had to reboot,
I got a graphical login, could login, kde3 started, however the hard disk was in read only mode. So I rebooted again, this time it took almost 15 min to reboot, a sign that some hard disk problem occurred; (I have the jfs file system.)
Anyhow finally the machine booted again successfully, I got a graphical login but now I could *NOT* login, the password was accepted but instead the graphical login screen reappeared.
I could login on a terminal though. So I thought maybe the xorg.conf file was damaged. But this Kubuntu version does not have a xorg file anymore, as google told me.
The litany of problems you describe could indicate hardware failure. I have a ThinkPad R61 with Squeeze, and since the upgrade from Lenny I have had no end of trouble from it.
For example, sound only works intermittently. On two occasions the printer was detected, but I could only print one file before the printer was no longer detected. On booting the screen goes blank before booting is completed; on average I have to reboot 3.5 times before I can get a complete boot. Shutdown is never completed; I have to shut down manually after the computer stops after some of the shutdown processes are finished. Dolphin and Konqueror sometimes detect a CDROM when there is no CDROM in the drive, etc.
I ran the usual tests on the hard drive (smartmontools) and the memory (memtest). In both cases no errors were detected. So, either there is much wrong with Squeeze; or there is a hardware failure somewhere, perhaps in the southbridge -- or even both hardware and software failures.
The failure rate for laptops in the first three years after manufacture is upwards of 20%. My R61 was assembled in 2008 -- almost five years ago. So hardware failure is a real possibility.
On the assumption that some of the cited problems were software related I sent individual posts to various user lists about some of the specific problems. For all of them the people who responded remained as baffled as to their cause as I was. In one case a Debian developer as much as told me that he could not help me as long I have software installed which is not "pure" Debian -- such as Trinity.
Regards, Ken Heard
FWIW: I found on my X6* T6* that "laptop-mode" when configured with CONTROL_INTEL_SATA_MODE="1" causes "funny" faults that look like hardware defects.
Nik