Bug#660993: nvidia-xconfig causes ATA soft reset failure

Andreas Beckmann debian at abeckmann.de
Sat Jun 30 17:07:53 UTC 2012


On Thursday, 23. February 2012 12:40:12 Setanta Mac Sualtam wrote:
> After running nvidia-xconfig and restarting, it hits ATA soft reset
> failure errors and won't boot. Things were running fine and that is
> the ONLY thing I changed.

Perhaps a disk, controller, or cable failure?

I think the relation to nvidia-xconfig is just a contingency.

> All I can do at this point is boot to a console with live disk, hope
> the HDD mounts and try to wipe xorg.conf Otherwise, I'm baffled

Did you have any luck reviving the system?


Andreas





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