Broken Pipe ?? (Solved)

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Hi Guys

I’ve just installed Peppermint 3 on a spare drive for experimental purposes and everything went perfect untill I added a new user then rebooted and was faced with this message on the screen

Could not write bytes: Broken pipe * stopping save kernel message *stopping system v runlevel compatability 270958887 cifs ufs security mechanism requested the default security mechanism will be upgraded from ntlm to ntlmv2 in lernel release 3.3

I’ve tried running all the options in recovery mode they all end in errors of some kind and I’ve tried updating grub and booting from the PM3 drive on the boot menu but I just keep getting the same error.

any help would be much appreciated

many thanks

Graeme

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have you checked the drive for errors.

how did you add the new user ?

At this point, it would probably be just as easy to reinstall, then we’ll add a new user account from the command line

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have you checked the drive for errors.

No there is no reason to suspect the drive It was running Elementaryos no problem before installing PM3

how did you add the new user ?

Menu>Users & Groups just set up the user with normal privilidges

At this point, it would probably be just as easy to reinstall, then we'll add a new user account from the command line

Wonderful

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Well we could try to troubleshoot it, but there’s no real info on where the broken pipe is … unless it’s something in cifs, have you added any cifs mounts to fstab ?

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unless it's something in cifs, have you added any cifs mounts to fstab ?

I did add my network shares (NAS) to /etc/fstab but i rebooted imediately after doing that and it booted then ok, I could try removing these entries and seeing if it will boot if you think it’s worthwhile ?

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Might be worth commenting out those entries and testing.

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Might be worth commenting out those entries and testing.

Just tried that, didn’t work :frowning:

I’ll just reinstall

Many thanks

Graeme

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Ok I checked the hard drive and it reported 3 damaged sectors so possibly that was the problem, unfortunately I don’t have another drive so I’ve reinstalled and everything’s is working fine although my hearts in my mouth when I reboot but it seems ok for now so I’ll mark this solved

Many thanks for your help

Graeme