strange computer crash[?], with error message

[Linkmaster]

So, I was taxing my system pretty hard, and I try not to because its a USB OS, with 10.10 installed on it. It locked up for a second, then turned black and spit out this:

*Starting AppArmor profiles
Skipping profile in /etc/apparmor.d/disable: usr.bin.firefox
                                                                                 [OK]
*Setting sensors limits                                                               [OK]

*PulseAudio configured for per-user sessions
                                saned disabled; edit /etc/default/saned
                                                            *checking battery state... [OK]

At this point, it hangs with no response, and I have to power it off. Any advice/help/knowledge on this would be much appreciated.

[rfakhrai]

Re: strange computer crash[?], with error message

Those messages look like the ones that display when you're booting up. Something isn't right here. I'm not quite sure that it's an error message. Are you taxing your machine beyond its limits? Like, is BIOS shutting you down?

For comparison you can edit /etc/default/saned and change no to yes.

[Linkmaster]

Re: strange computer crash[?], with error message

If I did tax the machine to its limits, it'll be a first for me. Its a small box, but I've never had the BIOS crash on me before..even when running Windows, and trying to crash it. Though I don't recall seeing the messages when booting up. I tried to copy it in as identical to what I saw as possible.

Concerning 'saned' file, I was, after a little bit of muddling[I got frustrated, went 'sudo su' changed the ownership, modified it to yes, then reverted it to original owndership :P]

Though I kinda knew something wasn't right, since this was the third or fourth time its happened. I just don't know what it is[my knowledge of Linux is shaky at best right now]

[rfakhrai]

Re: strange computer crash[?], with error message

It's just a little bit difficult to diagnose your issue. The "error" isn't really an error in my book and I don't know how to approach possible video issues with a USB OS. Hopefully someone will come along that can help more.

[Linkmaster]

Re: strange computer crash[?], with error message

Hm, I didn't think it was a video problem? Not sure what the "error" code meant exactly..but hopefully someone'll come along

[doctordruidphd]

Re: strange computer crash[?], with error message

This does look like a video problem.
The message you are seeing is not an error message, it is part of the normal boot sequence.
What is happening is that X is crashing, and throwing you back to the text console that displays
bootup information.

Try hitting CTRL-ALT-F2, snd see if you can get a login prompt.
If so, then login, and try:

sudo service kdm stop
followed by:
sudo service kdm start

and see if that gets you back. Or it might spit out an error message, in which case we will need to know
more about your system -- what kind of video card, standard or proprietary driver, etc.

[Linkmaster]

Re: strange computer crash[?], with error message

Okay, I am writing that down, and perhaps I'll attempt to purposefully get the 'crash' to occur, punch in the codes, and see what happens. That, or I'll wait for it happen again on its own accord. Either way, I'll post the results when they occur.

[RandomUsername]

So, how did you fix it? I have the same problem on Kubuntu 12.10...

[SteveRiley]

Concerning 'saned' file, I was, after a little bit of muddling[I got frustrated, went 'sudo su' changed the ownership, modified it to yes, then reverted it to original owndership :P

Did you investigate what saned is before you changed its configuration file?

[infoholico]

Saned is part of HP printers/scanner drivers, I fixed it by uninstalling the package

sudo apt-get remove libsane

then I reboot my system and when loggedin there was a notification that I have only 15mb in HDD, I had 9+gb free so I ran an update, it started downloading, I had to free another 10 mb for the update installation so I deleted all my Documents folder, about 30Mb when finished the update I had 2.9GB free at following morning I had 4.9Gb I really don't know what is happening.

[SteveRiley]

Sounds like you're bouncing around without really understanding what you're doing. libsane is the backend support library for many scanners; saned is a network scanning daemon that's part of the sane-utils front-end package. So changing the configuration file for saned really has little to do with the libsane package.

Also, disk space doesn't just magically appear and disappear. What's the output of this command:

df