<Solved> Get Open Office locks up machine

[dickey601]

Installed pclinuxos-kde-2010.07 and started installing pkgs. First ones from synaptic went OK. Machine locked up while "get open office" through PC app launcher.
Have been fighting this all weekend. I had pclinuxos 2010.01 and every time I would go to synaptic after upgrades, machine would go nuts. Kernel panics, file system damage from the many hard shut downs and many errors. Right now.... after crash while doing "get open office" and at screen with "localhost login", it keeps looping to 'INIT:cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty"
                              'INIT:Id "2" respawning too fast:disabled for 5 minutes

i686
AMD Phenom(tm) 8450 Triple-Core Processor
[AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] HyperTransport Configuration
 ‎MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SATA Controller (non-AHCI mode)
‎ATA ST3250410AS Hard Drive
 ‎nVidia Corporation ‎C77 [GeForce 8200]
Optiarc DVD RW AD-7200A
‎nVidia CorporationMCP77 Ethernet

[pinoc]

Hi dickey601,
after a fresh install of pclinuxos-kde-2010.07, started Synaptic -> Reload -> Mark all upgrades;
Next start GetOpenOffice and installed OO (en_US) without any problems.

The problem you mention is not related to GetOpenOffice (recall that you had the same problems when using 2010.1) but might be a hardware issue. I don't know what else you installed but mingetty is not used at all by getopenoffice.
Maybe someone else will pop in and help out with this.
regards,
-pinoc

[Texstar]

Hi dickey601,
after a fresh install of pclinuxos-kde-2010.07, started Synaptic -> Reload -> Mark all upgrades;
Next start GetOpenOffice and installed OO (en_US) without any problems.

The problem you mention is not related to GetOpenOffice (recall that you had the same problems when using 2010.1) but might be a hardware issue. I don't know what else you installed but mingetty is not used at all by getopenoffice.
Maybe someone else will pop in and help out with this.
regards,
-pinoc

Could be a space problem? Open Office needs lots of free space for downloading and installation also a nice size swap file if the memory is low in the computer.

[dickey601]

fdisk shows 52.6 gb but, it also noted "Disk /dev/sda1 doesn't contain a valid partition table. Partition was formatted with drakinstall. The machine just stops functioning after a while. It stops in the middle of downloads from pclos site.

[menotu]

In addition to above posts did you reboot after updating your system?

I tend to find it beneficial to reboot after updating a new install and THEN installing openoffice (or other "major" apps)

Another thought - did you format your /home partition when you did your 2010.1 and/or 2010.7 installs?

EDIT:   Just read your last post (I must of been writing mine) and it may be worth checking your disk from  a LiveCD

[dickey601]

The machine locked up again while downloading from pclos. I did the fdisk from live cd. I didn't have a chance to re-boot after "Get Open Office". The machine locked up before it finished downloading. Then I have to do hard shut down and reboot with safe boot, go to ?run level? (takes me to localhost login where I go exit or init 5 and then it gets to login gui.

[pinoc]

The machine locked up again while downloading from pclos. I did the fdisk from live cd. I didn't have a chance to re-boot after "Get Open Office". The machine locked up before it finished downloading. Then I have to do hard shut down and reboot with safe boot, go to ?run level? (takes me to localhost login where I go exit or init 5 and then it gets to login gui.

Hi again,

the problem is not related to GetOpenOffice but, as you mentioned, there is something wrong with your partition table. Are there any other OS installed on this PC? Did you do a clean install or re-used some partitions from a previous installation? Can you post the result of the commands df, mount, and less /etc/fstab. How much RAM does the PC have? Did you set up a Swap partition when installing 2010.07? Did you have any issues when installing 2010.07? We need more info to help you find the cause of the problem 
-p.

[dickey601]

The machine locked up again while downloading from pclos. I did the fdisk from live cd. I didn't have a chance to re-boot after "Get Open Office". The machine locked up before it finished downloading. Then I have to do hard shut down and reboot with safe boot, go to ?run level? (takes me to localhost login where I go exit or init 5 and then it gets to login gui.

Hi again,

the problem is not related to GetOpenOffice but, as you mentioned, there is something wrong with your partition table. Are there any other OS installed on this PC? Did you do a clean install or re-used some partitions from a previous installation? Can you post the result of the commands df, mount, and less /etc/fstab. How much RAM does the PC have? Did you set up a Swap partition when installing 2010.07? Did you have any issues when installing 2010.07? We need more info to help you find the cause of the problem  
-p.

Sorry for the delay. Pclinuxos is the only os that has been on this machine (2009.beta,2010.01 and 2010.07.
Here are results:
# Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=e740b949-8cf8-4f7d-81da-ad2b795d814c / ext4 defaults 1 1
# Entry for /dev/sda2 :
UUID=a9b2fe48-c331-49c5-93f6-3a3332b85113 /home ext4 defaults 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda3 :
UUID=35084bb5-eb98-4ee2-99fe-16f20015cada swap swap defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0

root@localhost proc]# cat meminfo
MemTotal:        2008604 kB
MemFree:         1133084 kB
Buffers:           25376 kB
Cached:           503392 kB


[geezer@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost geezer]# df /dev/sda
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
-                     978M  248K  978M   1% /dev
[root@localhost geezer]# mount /dev/sda
mount: can't find /dev/sda in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
[root@localhost geezer]# mount /dev/sda1
mount: /dev/sda1 already mounted or / busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda1 is already mounted on /
[root@localhost geezer]# mount /dev/sda2
mount: /dev/sda2 already mounted or /home busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda2 is already mounted on /home

Something's not right. /dev/sda should be 232 gb. 50gb for /, 75gb for /home and swap is 6.8gb. What's up?
Swap was set up but not formatted for 2010.07 install. No issues with draklive - install.  Hope this helps.

[pinoc]

partition problems, hope O-P will jump in and help out 
-p.

[Was_Just19]

Please post the results of running the following commands

fdisk -l

df

thanks.

[Old-Polack]

dickey601:

It would be helpful if you entered the commands properly. When asked for the results of mount, that is the command. Not mount /dev/<something>, just the single word mount, as root. The same for the df command. Actually the command we want is df -h, but that is by default aliased to df. In my case I have other aliases, so the defaults are no longer in effect on my machine, so I use the full command, The results should look something like this.

[root@littleboy ~]# df -h

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Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc15             32G  8.7G   22G  29% /
/dev/sdc5             101G   69G   27G  72% /home/polack/Documents
/dev/sdd5              94G   79G   11G  89% /home/polack/Documents2
/dev/sdb6              47G   26G   19G  58% /share7
/dev/sdd6             188G  155G   24G  87% /share9
/dev/sdd9             111G   91G   14G  87% /movies
/dev/sdc12            296G  264G   17G  95% /movies2
/dev/sda5              92G   63G   25G  72% /tv
/dev/sdc14             30G  9.3G   20G  33% /mnt/here

Each mounted partition is listed, with its total size, the amount currently used, as well as the directory on which it's mounted.

[root@littleboy ~]# mount

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/dev/sdc15 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620)
/dev/sdc5 on /home/polack/Documents type ext3 (rw,noatime)
/dev/sdd5 on /home/polack/Documents2 type ext3 (rw,noatime)
/dev/sdb6 on /share7 type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime)
/dev/sdd6 on /share9 type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime)
/dev/sdd9 on /movies type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime)
/dev/sdc12 on /movies2 type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime)
/dev/sda5 on /tv type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
/dev/sdc14 on /mnt/here type ext4 (rw)

Here again the partitions and their mount point are shown, but rather than the amount used, the filesystem type, and the mount options used are shown.

[root@littleboy ~]# fdisk -l

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Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000565cd

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1          45      361431   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              46         257     1702890   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3             258       12161    95618880   83  Linux
/dev/sda4           12162       24321    97675200    5  Extended
/dev/sda5           12162       24321    97675168+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 164.7 GB, 164696555520 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd7523ebd

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2              14         257     1959930   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb3             258        1778    12217432+  83  Linux
/dev/sdb4            1779       20023   146552962+   5  Extended
/dev/sdb5            1779        7860    48853633+  83  Linux
/dev/sdb6            7861       14000    49319518+  83  Linux
/dev/sdb7           14001       20023    48379716   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1               1          39      313236   83  Linux
/dev/sdc2              40        1047     8096760   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdc3            1048        7127    48837600   83  Linux
/dev/sdc4            7128      121601   919512405    5  Extended
/dev/sdc5            7128       20500   107418591   83  Linux
/dev/sdc6           20501       33267   102550896   83  Linux
/dev/sdc7           33268       37158    31254426   83  Linux
/dev/sdc8           37159       41049    31254426   83  Linux
/dev/sdc9           41050       44940    31254426   83  Linux
/dev/sdc10          44941       48831    31254426   83  Linux
/dev/sdc11          48832       61886   104864256   83  Linux
/dev/sdc12          61887      101050   314584798+  83  Linux
/dev/sdc13         101051      104942    31262458+  83  Linux
/dev/sdc14         104943      108893    31736376   83  Linux
/dev/sdc15         108894      113071    33559753+  83  Linux
/dev/sdc16         113072      116988    31463271   83  Linux
/dev/sdc17         116989      121601    37053891   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdd: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2db1883a

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdd1               1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sdd2              14         761     6008310   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdd3             762        4497    30009420   83  Linux
/dev/sdd4            4498       91201   696449880    5  Extended
/dev/sdd5            4498       16947   100004593+  83  Linux
/dev/sdd6           16948       41750   199230066   83  Linux
/dev/sdd7           41751       45520    30282493+  83  Linux
/dev/sdd8           45521       50506    40050013+  83  Linux
/dev/sdd9           50507       65096   117194143+  83  Linux
/dev/sdd10          65097       79686   117194143+  83  Linux
/dev/sdd11          79687       91201    92494206   83  Linux

This shows all the partitions on all the hard drives present on the machine. The results of these commands from your machine will give us the information we need to be able to help you. Depending on what we see, we may want results from other commands as well.

[dickey601]

Here are some results of commands you ask for. This is from terminal in live cd. Machine hung while in safe mode somewhere after udev.

[root@localhost /]# mount
/dev/root on / type rootfs (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
[root@localhost /]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        6399    51399936   83  Linux
/dev/sda2            6400       16023    77304780   83  Linux
/dev/sda3           16024       16915     7164990   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4           16916       18508    12795772+  83  Linux
[root@localhost /]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root             964M  174M  791M  18% /

[menotu]

If you follow old-polacks and johnboys sound advice you'll get sorted.

One thing I'd suggest (if you haven't already done so) is to do an md5sum and media check on your downloaded iso and CD

[dickey601]

If you follow old-polacks and johnboys sound advice you'll get sorted.

 Yeah.... I did md5sum on iso download. I had same problems with earlier version before I burned the 2010.07 version.

[Old-Polack]

Here are some results of commands you ask for. This is from terminal in live cd. Machine hung while in safe mode somewhere after udev.

[root@localhost /]# mount
/dev/root on / type rootfs (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
[root@localhost /]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        6399    51399936   83  Linux
/dev/sda2            6400       16023    77304780   83  Linux
/dev/sda3           16024       16915     7164990   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4           16916       18508    12795772+  83  Linux
[root@localhost /]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root             964M  174M  791M  18% /

You can't run mount or df from the liveCD, and expect to get useful information about your installed system. Those commands give information about the running system, which in this case is the liveCD.

Your fdisk output shows you have four primary partitions, and none of them is an extended partition, therefore 100+ GB of your hard drive will be unusable. If you wish to be able to use the rest of the drive, you'll need to delete the current /dev/sda4, then using the same starting cylinder, with the ending cylinder being 30401 create a /dev/sda4 extended partition. You can then create /dev/sda5 at the same start and end cylinders as the current /dev/sda4, without losing any data in the process. The rest of the drive will then be able to be further partitioned, formatted, and used, for whatever purpose you choose.