On 31.7.2003 15:24, "Jean Delvare" <khali at linux-fr.org> wrote: > >> I just installed lm-sensors 2.8.0 on my Debian PPC - it said: >> Installation successful. My computer hung itself up when I done >> sensors-detect. At startup I know get: > > At which point of sensors-detect dit hit hang? I think after looking for the ISA-Bus. > >> vector: 300 at pc = e238c288, lr = e238f080 >> Msr = 9032, sp = d8817cf0 [d8817c40] >> Current = d8816000, pid = 661, comm = modprobe >> Mon> >> >> My Gnome-Startup hangs and nothing at all happens. When I reboot the >> same happens again. >> >> Any hints how I can get my computer back working again? > > Gasp :( All that work to only break your computer... Maybe we should > have just given up before. I looged into the console with fn+ctrl+alt now when I run sensors I get: Error while loading shared libraries: libsensors.so.2: cannot open shared oject file: No such file or directory What does that mean? > > You need to access your filesystem from another way (usually, Linux > installation CDs offer a way to get a working console, or you have to > boot from one or two floppy disks). Once you're there, you'll have to > mount your root partition somewhere. For example, do: > > mkdir /tmp/root > mount /dev/hdb1 /tmp/root > > (This assumes that your Linux root disk is /dev/hdb1. Change to whatever > it is). > > Then, go to /tmp/root/etc/rc.d/sysconfig/. You must have a "lm_sensors" > init script there, which is the one that crashes your system. Delete it: > > rm -f /tmp/root/etc/rc.d/sysconfig/lm_sensors. > > Then unmount your root dir: > > cd / > umount /tmp/root > > And reboot the usual way. Things should be back to normal. My computer still boots but it just does not start GNOME. Where do I have to look for the startup script of lm-sensors? In /etc/rc.d? Thanks for Feedback. Zeno
