Desparate to get back into Fienix and suspecting that the troubles I was having with my current install stemmed from some contamination of files therein, I reformatted my REMIX partition and copied the new 2020 image into it.
I hoped that the new install might cure that annoying one minute 14 seconds of running a start job, but no, there it was again. And when it finished booting, there I was with the black screen and text cursor in the upper left corner again.
This time I just let it sit awhile, and suddenly there was the old mottled screen. I tried my old "fix" of entering (invisibly) "fienix." Back to the black screen, and waiting did no good this time.
While rebooting, I went ahead and made a new boot script, "fienixnew," copying my ubuntu script but changing /dev/sda7 to /dev/sda6. That leaves the kernel still set at Kernel Linux 5.5.0-rc1_A-EON_X5000 ppc64. It of course still fails.
The mottled screen currently comes up with that odd pattern in the upper left corner that the old install had when it quit working, see screen dump.
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I just checked user.log which has worrisome messages I haven't seen before. Any clues there?
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Feb 3 13:31:37 Fienix udisksd[3902]: Error probing device: Error sending ATA command IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE to '/dev/sr0': Unexpected sense data returned:#0120000: 70 00 06 00 00 00 00 0a 20 51 a0 03 28 00 00 00 p....... Q..(...#0120010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................#012 (g-io-error-quark, 0)
Feb 3 13:31:38 Fienix udisksd[3902]: Acquired the name org.freedesktop.UDisks2 on the system message bus
Feb 3 13:31:38 Fienix udisksd[3902]: mountpoint /media/fienix/FIENIX-BOOT is invalid, cannot recover the canonical path
Feb 3 13:31:38 Fienix udisksd[3902]: Cleaning up mount point /media/fienix/FIENIX-BOOT (device 8:17 is not mounted)
Feb 3 13:45:32 Fienix mtp-probe: checking bus 1, device 3: "/sys/devices/platform/ffe000000.soc/ffe210000.usb/fsl-ehci.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.1"
Feb 3 13:45:32 Fienix mtp-probe: checking bus 1, device 5: "/sys/devices/platform/ffe000000.soc/ffe210000.usb/fsl-ehci.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.3"
Feb 3 13:45:32 Fienix mtp-probe: checking bus 2, device 4: "/sys/devices/platform/ffe000000.soc/ffe211000.usb/fsl-ehci.1/usb2/2-1/2-1.4"
Feb 3 13:45:32 Fienix mtp-probe: checking bus 1, device 4: "/sys/devices/platform/ffe000000.soc/ffe210000.usb/fsl-ehci.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.2"
Feb 3 13:45:32 Fienix mtp-probe: bus: 1, device: 4 was not an MTP device
Feb 3 13:45:32 Fienix mtp-probe: bus: 1, device: 5 was not an MTP device
Feb 3 13:45:32 Fienix mtp-probe: bus: 2, device: 4 was not an MTP device
Feb 3 13:45:32 Fienix mtp-probe: checking bus 2, device 3: "/sys/devices/platform/ffe000000.soc/ffe211000.usb/fsl-ehci.1/usb2/2-1/2-1.1"
Feb 3 13:45:32 Fienix mtp-probe: bus: 1, device: 3 was not an MTP device
Feb 3 13:45:32 Fienix mtp-probe: bus: 2, device: 3 was not an MTP device
Feb 3 13:45:32 Fienix udisksd[3895]: udisks daemon version 2.8.4 starting
Feb 3 13:45:34 Fienix udisksd[3895]: failed to load module mdraid: libbd_mdraid.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Feb 3 13:45:34 Fienix udisksd[3895]: Failed to load the 'mdraid' libblockdev plugin
Feb 3 13:45:36 Fienix udisksd[3895]: Error probing device: Error sending ATA command IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE to '/dev/sr0': Unexpected sense data returned:#0120000: 70 00 06 00 00 00 00 0a 20 51 a0 03 28 00 00 00 p....... Q..(...#0120010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................#012 (g-io-error-quark, 0)
Feb 3 13:45:37 Fienix udisksd[3895]: Error probing device: Error sending ATA command IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE to '/dev/sr0': Unexpected sense data returned:#0120000: 70 00 06 00 00 00 00 0a 20 51 a0 03 28 00 00 00 p....... Q..(...#0120010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................#012 (g-io-error-quark, 0)
Feb 3 13:45:37 Fienix udisksd[3895]: Acquired the name org.freedesktop.UDisks2 on the system message bus
Feb 3 13:50:58 Fienix popularity-contest: unable to submit report to http://popcon.debian.org/cgi-bin/popcon.cgi.
Feb 3 13:50:58 Fienix popularity-contest: unable to submit report.
Syslog has a few thousand complaints of its own. Messages too.
I am out of ideas.