Probably irrelevant, but this is on an HP z440 workstation. I set up software RAID via YaST Partitioner, and wasn’t being careful, and I chose to have it mount the array to /home as that was the default offered.
After doing this, several errors came up as I tried to use buttons on my TaskManager panel, and so I attempted a restart. Clicking the restart button in the KDE menu worked so far as it took me to the ‘confirmation’ screen where I had to click restart again. Clicking restart again caused the system to hang. Same exact behavior for the shutdown button in the menu - clicking the first ‘shutdown’ took me to the confirmation screen (sorry if I’m using incorrect lingo here, I’m still very much a linux noob), where I clicked ‘shutdown’ again and it would hang.
I deleted and re-made the array, this time not having it auto-mount at the end of the process. That’s after I used Konsole to reboot.
The errors from the TaskManager stopped, but the shutdown/restart button behavior continued. I know this is a permissions issue, because when logged in as root, the buttons act correctly.
I just don’t know what file(s) need their permissions fixed.
Can anyone point me to the correct directory/file(s)?
Many thanks!
EDIT: also, if someone could shed some light on why exactly botching a simple RAID setup would somehow mess up file permissions for shutdown/restart buttons, I would GREATLY appreciate it because that makes zero sense to me, but again, linux noob here
I probably should have gone that route. I’ll break the array and try that sometime soon - I’m not sure how to go about it - through the UEFI I’m guessing.
@NineOfAllTrades Well open the case and use the correct SATA ports, the row of four along the bottom by the PCI slot. Then you set it up via pressing F10 to get to the BIOS.
Not to get off on a tangent about hardware RAID with this ‘rig’ but, I’m using the correct ports. I just didn’t realize that RAID could be configured through the UEFI - prior to configuring it on my z420 (I have a z420 and a z440 - the former has been through hell, as my soon-to-be-ex-wife literally threw it at me at one point; it is still functional, but is dented up), as I fumbled around, in Windows 10, the Intel Rapid Storage Technology Enterprise driver came in to play, and I realized that could allow for RAID, and I assumed (someday I will learn not to do that) that the software route was THE route to take on a z4xx machine. I have never dealt with hardware raid on a desktop, only on a couple rack servers. Thank you for your tips/feedback.
Done - the software RAID is gone, and I now have a 2TB hardware RAID1. Thank you sir. That was very easy. I did have to press Ctrl+C during startup to get into the RAID configuration section. Thanks again.