Boot issues in my HP DC7900 with ScPup64 21.01+0 (Solved)

[radames]

Hi!

I have been experiencing a booting problem on my main machine, an HP DC7900 Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00GHz with a Radeon HD 3450 graphics and 4GB of ram. Sometimes the system boots up to the "Loading kernel modules" message and gets stuck there, then I only have the option to turn it off and on again. I was thinking that happens after installing some sfs packages, the devx, kernel sources and headers for example. I remember that it had also happened to me with version 20.01+6, and I fixed it by installing the corresponding devx package from Lxpup64.

So what can I do to fix it, where is the "boot.log" file in ScPup64?

Thanks in advance!

[bigpup]

Try having no sfs packages loading.

Is there any program you added or something you may have removed, just before this started.

what format is the partition the ScPup64 is on?

I assume it is a frugal or live install and using a save file/folder?

[radames]

Try having no sfs packages loading.

Is there any program you added or something you may have removed, just before this started.

what format is the partition the ScPup64 is on?

I assume it is a frugal or live install and using a save file/folder?

I will remove the sfs, and see what happens as you mention. It's almost a brand new install, it's only been 6 days, I've only installed the chrome sfs, my own theme packages, gtk+3, gimp and some libraries this one needed from PPM.

Although my problems started the fourth time I started the system, when I only had the devx sfs, kernel headers and kernel sources installed.

And yes, it is a frugal installation, in ext4 format, I forgot to mention it at the beginning.

Thank you very much!

[radames]

I have unloaded the sfs packages and the result is the same, it does not let me boot the system normally.

[bigpup]

Could check the file system on the partition ScPup64 is installed on.

Need to boot from a live Puppy or a Puppy on a different partition to do a partition check.
(the partition must be unmounted)

In a terminal run e2fsck to check for anything wrong with file system and correct it.

Example:
partition sda1

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e2fsck -p  /dev/sda1

[radames]

I ran the e2fsck -p command from a disk I have with Shiba-inu and it found no errors in the partition. This is the result:

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/dev/sda1: clean, 32682/29949952 files, 7724320/119792384 blocks

What I have noticed is that when ScPup64 boots normally, the sfs packages I have installed do not work, they are listed in sfs_load, but they do not work. I have to remove and reinstall them to get them working again. Instead, when it boots and stays in "Loading kernel modules" I have to edit the bootconfig file in /etc/rc.d/, and delete the sfs listed in the first line ("EXTRASFSLIST") and a lot of spaces up to the PREVUNIONRECORD and LASTUNIONRECORD lines. Only this way I can reinstall them and run sfs_load.

I wonder what could be going on, I'll keep searching!

[bigpup]

what exactly are the sfs packages you are loading at startup?

Look in the actual save file/folder etc/rc.d
Does the BOOTCONFIG file look normal?

Maybe delete it from the save so it has to be reproduced for the save.

[radames]

The sfs packages are: devx_ScPup64_21.01+0.sfs, kernel_headers-5.10.4-lxpup64.sfs, kernel_sources-5.10.4-lxpup64.sfs, and chrome64_88.0.4324.96_lx_spot.sfs

The BOOTCONFIG file seems to be ok, I will delete it to see what happens. Thanks!

[radames]

I deleted the BOOTCONFIG file, and on the next reboot the system booted correctly, except of course for the time it took to generate a new BOOTCONFIG file. Then I installed the sfs packages again, rebooted my system and then it did not boot correctly.

Then I think I have found the problem, I have rebooted a couple of times doing the same procedure, if the BOOTCONFIG file was previously deleted in one session then it does load the system, but if it is present and I have installed some sfs in the next session it will have failed to boot.

[bigpup]

Try only having one kernel sfs, the kernel sources sfs loaded and not load the kernel headers sfs.
If no affect.
Try not loading the Chrome sfs.

/mnt/home is the normal location to have the sfs packages stored.

[peebee]

Where are the .sfs stored? Are they on the same partition as the frugal install? They must be on a partition that is mounted at boot time - i.e. either at the root of the frugal install partition or inside the frugal install directory.

[radames]

Try only having one kernel sfs, the kernel sources sfs loaded and not load the kernel headers sfs.
If no affect.
Try not loading the Chrome sfs.

/mnt/home is the normal location to have the sfs packages stored.

Ok, I'll try. Thanks bigpup!

Where are the .sfs stored? Are they on the same partition as the frugal install? They must be on a partition that is mounted at boot time - i.e. either at the root of the frugal install partition or inside the frugal install directory.

All of them are in /mnt/home.

[radames]

Hi guys!

I removed the sfs packages referring to the kernel from sfs_load, rebooted and everything looked the same. Then I deleted the BOOTCONFIG and BOOTCONFIG.save file and rebooted the system. I reloaded the sfs again and it seems to have worked. I have already booted my system several times and everything is fine now.

Thank you very much for your help!