Cinnamon just crashed.

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Cinnamon just crashed.

Post#1 by Ed_P » 10 Feb 2017, 17:45

Running in Fallback Mode.

Occurring with Cinnamon 64-bit 3.2.1 and 3.2.2 in all modes including Always Fresh. Problem started about a week ago. Not sure why.

I've tried the cache-module, slim approach but it hasn't resolved the problem.

-update-

Booting ISOs using grub2.
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Post#2 by Bogomips » 10 Feb 2017, 22:01

^ Bound to be the Changes. Always more trouble than it's worth. :twisted:
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Cinnamon just crashed.

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Re: Cinnamon just crashed.

Post#4 by Ed_P » 11 Feb 2017, 01:03

Well, I've just booted Cinnamon 3.2.2 64-bit from a USB flash drive where it is installed, and using a changes file, and it booted!! In fact I am posting from it. So whatever drivers are in 3.2.2 do support the Dell notebook.

So why are the ISO boots failing??? They worked up until a week ago, then had problems for a day then worked ok for most of the week and now this problem. :%)

:wall:

-update-

Actually the flash drive boot did not use a changes file. But some of the ISO boots that failed with the "Cinnamon just crashed." error were booted in Always Fresh mode so no changes file.
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Re: Cinnamon just crashed.

Post#5 by Bogomips » 11 Feb 2017, 12:35

So now it's clear. Not Porteus Cinnamon, but it's the desktop that tells you it's crashed.

One gets the option then to restart Cinnamon. Does this then work?


P.S. Should this issue now not be discussed under Cinnamon Desktop?
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Re: Cinnamon just crashed.

Post#6 by normalGuy » 11 Feb 2017, 16:09

Ed_P wrote: -update-

Booting ISOs using grub2.
Hello
Ed_P can you please share your grub2 configs and menus, I'm having a trouble with that.

Thanks.

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Post#7 by jssouza » 11 Feb 2017, 17:41

Hi Ed_P,

Could it be that there is a mismatch between the kernel that you boot from grub and the 000-kernel.xzm within the iso?

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Re: Cinnamon just crashed.

Post#8 by Ed_P » 11 Feb 2017, 17:56

Bogomips wrote:One gets the option then to restart Cinnamon. Does this then work?
No. And not sure this is a Cinnamon problem.
jssouza wrote:Could it be that there is a mismatch between the kernel that you boot from grub and the 000-kernel.xzm within the iso?
No. Everything is in the ISO.

BTW The problem has now changed to hanging on:

Code: Select all

searching for porteus-v3.2.2-x86_64.sgn
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normalGuy wrote: Ed_P can you please share your grub2 configs and menus, I'm having a trouble with that.
This thread may help you with that. http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... t=grub2win
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Re: Cinnamon just crashed.

Post#9 by Bogomips » 11 Feb 2017, 18:41

Ed_P wrote:

Code: Select all

searching for porteus-v3.2.2-x86_64.sgn
:wall:
Run with debug on kernel command line and video what you get. 8)
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Post#10 by Ed_P » 11 Feb 2017, 21:16

Resolved the searching error by adding a delay=8 cheatcode so now my slow, new Dell Inspiron 13 4 GB RAM 1TB hdd can keep up. :%)

I tried delay=5 before but that didn't work. :unknown:

Never get these problems with my old Acer netbook.
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Post#11 by Bogomips » 12 Feb 2017, 18:43

Ed_P wrote:new Dell Inspiron 13 4 GB RAM 1TB hdd can keep up. :%)
Talking cold boot?

Takes under 15" for my not so brand new model usb2.0 external 3TB disk to come on line after plugging in, so suppose yours is par for the course. :D

BTW how planning to back up spanking new 1TB HD?
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Re: Cinnamon just crashed.

Post#12 by Ed_P » 13 Feb 2017, 05:27

Bogomips wrote:
Ed_P wrote:new Dell Inspiron 13 4 GB RAM 1TB hdd can keep up. :%)
Talking cold boot?
I'm saying that booting Porteus ISOs, on my hard drive, via grub2, requires adding a delay of 8 seconds to my Porteus boot parms. So the quick boot on the Dell is now similar to the boot on the Acer. WHY I need to slow down the boot process on the newer, faster notebook is beyond me at this point.

Things I have learned with this experience:

1. To help determine blank screen booting errors with Porteus ISOs it helps to add a "nomodeset verbose" options to the Porteus cheatcodes. And "set gfxpayload=1024x768" to the grub2 code for the ISO booting.

2. With the above debugging steps the Cinnamon DE aborts with "Cinnamon just crashed".

3. So do step 1 to find the cause of the blank screen problem. Implement the blank screen fix and delete the debug changes.
Takes under 15" for my not so brand new model usb2.0 external 3TB disk to come on line after plugging in, so suppose yours is par for the course. :D
At this point I believe mine is close to that.
BTW how planning to back up spanking new 1TB HD?
I've got some old USB flash drives. :D

Actually I divided the usable part of the HD into 4 partitions. These go with the 3 other partitions that are on the drive for EFI and Recovery and Dell System. With my 4 partitions, 1 is for the Windows OS, one is for my Data files, which include all my ISOs, one is for my normal Windows backups and one is for the Windows backup I made after I updated the original Windows 10 system to 10.1 which took days. Periodically I do a Windows backup to a 1 TB USB HD.

And while backups to the hard drive that may fail are risky, backups that aren't convenient aren't done. And sometimes hard drives that fail fail on the C: drive and not the other drives. Situations both of which occurred to family netbooks within the past year.
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