[iyonix-support] Re: Strange Error Message
- From: CJE Sales <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 10:14:58 +0100 (BST)
On Sat 02 Jul, Matthew Thompson wrote:
>
> Yesterday when I switched on my Iyonix it stopped during boot up with
> an odd error message. It was just at before the desktop should appear
> and it was an "error from desktop" and it said "machine did not start
> up properly" and there was an error message which was gibberish, it
> said something about 'sys' and wasn't a proper error message at all.
>
> If I cancelled it I got to the desktop but it didn't do anything, so
> if I pressed Alt/Break I could select 'Stop Unknown' and then then it
> would actually work OK, but the machine would not connect to the
> internet , Netfetch said I the machine had a network error. So I
> rebooted with the network options swtiched off and no error message
> appeared, turned it back on it and the message came back, then after
> a while and a few reboots the message just vanished and the machine
> was fine again.
>
> There was no explaination as to why this happened, nothing changed
> with the machine, it was just there, and then it wasn't , had anybody
> else experienced this problem ? it was clearly connected to the
> network files, I thought maybe some file had got corrupt but obviously
> not.
This isn't something that has been specifically reported to us before. As a
one-off it's probably not worthwhile worrying about it or trying to track
down the cause, but if it recurrs and becomes a persistent problem, then we
could look at either changing out the power supply or replacing the onboard
networking with a PCI network card.
Andrew
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