Strange problem -

Mon Feb 10 13:46:30 UTC 2014

On 10/02/14 08:22, Frank Murphy wrote:
>> > Xfce is still coming up on console 2. I need to stop whatever causes
>> > console 1 to be active. It appears to be happening when xfce4 starts
>> > since it sits displaying a small progress circle until something
>> > "times-out" and then switches to the usual larger circle before
>> > running?
> Remove rhgb and quite from the kernel line during bootup.
Done, that is one of the first things I do after installation of system.
> See if you can spot something.
>
> If not wait till you login and:
> journalctl -b | grep timeout
> # or whatever is the correct "time-out" you see.
Not sure how to implement "time-out" but this is the data after 08:33:30 
and startxfce4 > the small progress circle was displayed:

Feb 10 08:33:26 box7 systemd[1]: Started Stop Read-Ahead Data Collection.
Feb 10 08:33:30 box7 kernel: mei_me 0000:00:03.0: reset: 
connect/disconnect timeout.
Feb 10 08:33:30 box7 kernel: mei_me 0000:00:03.0: unexpected reset: 
dev_state = RESETTING
Feb 10 08:33:32 box7 fprintd[968]: ** Message: No devices in use, exit
Feb 10 08:33:36 box7 kernel: mei_me 0000:00:03.0: reset: 
connect/disconnect timeout.
Feb 10 08:33:36 box7 kernel: mei_me 0000:00:03.0: unexpected reset: 
dev_state = RESETTING
Feb 10 08:33:42 box7 kernel: mei_me 0000:00:03.0: reset: 
connect/disconnect timeout.
Feb 10 08:33:42 box7 kernel: mei_me 0000:00:03.0: unexpected reset: 
dev_state = RESETTING
Feb 10 08:33:48 box7 kernel: mei_me 0000:00:03.0: reset: 
connect/disconnect timeout.
Feb 10 08:33:48 box7 kernel: mei_me 0000:00:03.0: unexpected reset: 
dev_state = RESETTING
Feb 10 08:33:54 box7 kernel: mei_me 0000:00:03.0: reset: 
connect/disconnect timeout.
Feb 10 08:33:54 box7 kernel: mei_me 0000:00:03.0: unexpected reset: 
dev_state = RESETTING
Feb 10 08:33:54 box7 polkitd[669]: Registered Authentication Agent for 
unix-session:1 (system bus name :1.23 [/usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authen
Feb 10 08:33:54 box7 systemd[1]: Starting CUPS Printing Service...
Feb 10 08:33:54 box7 systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service.
Feb 10 08:33:54 box7 dbus-daemon[424]: dbus[424]: [system] Activating 
via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1' unit='rtkit-dae
Feb 10 08:33:54 box7 dbus[424]: [system] Activating via systemd: service 
name='org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1' unit='rtkit-daemon.service'
Feb 10 08:33:54 box7 systemd[1]: Starting RealtimeKit Scheduling Policy 
Service...
Feb 10 08:33:55 box7 dbus-daemon[424]: dbus[424]: [system] Successfully 
activated service 'org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1'
Feb 10 08:33:55 box7 dbus[424]: [system] Successfully activated service 
'org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1'
Feb 10 08:33:55 box7 systemd[1]: Started RealtimeKit Scheduling Policy 
Service.
Feb 10 08:33:55 box7 rtkit-daemon[1063]: Successfully called chroot.
Feb 10 08:33:55 box7 rtkit-daemon[1063]: Successfully dropped privileges.
Feb 10 08:33:55 box7 rtkit-daemon[1063]: Successfully limited resources.
Feb 10 08:33:55 box7 rtkit-daemon[1063]: Running.
Feb 10 08:33:55 box7 rtkit-daemon[1063]: Canary thread running.
Feb 10 08:33:55 box7 rtkit-daemon[1063]: Watchdog thread running.
Feb 10 08:33:55 box7 rtkit-daemon[1063]: Successfully made thread 1062 
of process 1062 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '1000' high priority at
Feb 10 08:33:55 box7 rtkit-daemon[1063]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 
processes of 1 users.
Feb 10 08:33:55 box7 pulseaudio[1062]: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Home 
directory not accessible: Permission denied
Feb 10 08:33:55 box7 kernel: fuse init (API version 7.22)
Feb 10 08:33:55 box7 systemd[1]: Mounting FUSE Control File System...
Feb 10 08:33:55 box7 systemd[1]: Mounted FUSE Control File System.
Feb 10 08:33:55 box7 kernel: SELinux: initialized (dev fusectl, type 
fusectl), uses genfs_contexts
Feb 10 08:33:55 box7 kernel: SELinux: initialized (dev fuse, type fuse), 
uses genfs_contexts
Feb 10 08:33:56 box7 dbus-daemon[424]: dbus[424]: [system] Activating 
via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.UPower' unit='upower.service'
Feb 10 08:33:56 box7 dbus[424]: [system] Activating via systemd: service 
name='org.freedesktop.UPower' unit='upower.service'
Feb 10 08:33:56 box7 systemd[1]: Starting Daemon for power management...
Feb 10 08:33:56 box7 dbus-daemon[424]: dbus[424]: [system] Successfully 
activated service 'org.freedesktop.UPower'
Feb 10 08:33:56 box7 dbus[424]: [system] Successfully activated service 
'org.freedesktop.UPower'
Feb 10 08:33:56 box7 systemd[1]: Started Daemon for power management.
Feb 10 08:33:57 box7 dbus-daemon[424]: dbus[424]: [system] Activating 
via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.UDisks2' unit='udisks2.servic
Feb 10 08:33:57 box7 dbus[424]: [system] Activating via systemd: service 
name='org.freedesktop.UDisks2' unit='udisks2.service'
Feb 10 08:33:57 box7 systemd[1]: Starting Disk Manager...
Feb 10 08:33:57 box7 udisksd[1382]: udisks daemon version 2.1.2 starting
Feb 10 08:33:57 box7 dbus-daemon[424]: dbus[424]: [system] Successfully 
activated service 'org.freedesktop.UDisks2'
Feb 10 08:33:57 box7 dbus[424]: [system] Successfully activated service 
'org.freedesktop.UDisks2'
Feb 10 08:33:57 box7 udisksd[1382]: Acquired the name 
org.freedesktop.UDisks2 on the system message bus
Feb 10 08:33:57 box7 systemd[1]: Started Disk Manager.
Feb 10 08:33:59 box7 goa[1439]: goa-daemon version 3.10.2 starting 
[main.c:117, main()]
Feb 10 08:33:59 box7 goa[1439]: GoaKerberosIdentityManager: Using 
polling for change notification for credential cache type 'KEYRING' [goakerb
Feb 10 08:34:00 box7 kernel: mei_me 0000:00:03.0: reset: 
connect/disconnect timeout.
Feb 10 08:34:00 box7 kernel: mei_me 0000:00:03.0: unexpected reset: 
dev_state = RESETTING
Feb 10 08:34:06 box7 kernel: mei_me 0000:00:03.0: reset: 
connect/disconnect timeout.
Feb 10 08:34:06 box7 kernel: mei_me 0000:00:03.0: unexpected reset: 
dev_state = RESETTING
Feb 10 08:34:11 box7 chronyd[403]: Selected source 50.23.135.154
Feb 10 08:34:12 box7 kernel: mei_me 0000:00:03.0: reset: 
connect/disconnect timeout.
Feb 10 08:34:12 box7 kernel: mei_me 0000:00:03.0: unexpected reset: 
dev_state = RESETTING
Feb 10 08:34:18 box7 kernel: mei_me 0000:00:03.0: reset: 
connect/disconnect timeout.
Feb 10 08:34:18 box7 kernel: mei_me 0000:00:03.0: unexpected reset: 
dev_state = RESETTING
Feb 10 08:34:20 box7 sshd[1474]: Accepted password for bobg from 
192.168.1.10 port 39820 ssh2
Feb 10 08:34:20 box7 systemd-logind[423]: New session 2 of user bobg.
Feb 10 08:34:20 box7 systemd[1]: Starting Session 2 of user bobg.
Feb 10 08:34:20 box7 systemd[1]: Started Session 2 of user bobg.
Feb 10 08:34:20 box7 sshd[1474]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened 
for user bobg by (uid=0)

At the end you can see my ssh access to view this.

I think the "unexpected reset: dev_state = RESETTING" is at least part 
off what I am seeing in console 1.

If you can deduce anything from that I would like to know ...

Bob
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> Frank
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