Feature Complete Debian Desktop Release

[Luke]

About the PCIe disks. Sounds like a permissions issue to me. I tested PCIe -> SATA some time back and had no issues, but didn't retest on the release. Anyways, let me know if this will solve your issue:

Code:

sudo chown -R -v rock:rock /media/rock    
sudo chmod -Rf 777 rock:rock /media/rock

[edit]
Can you switch tty when the build 'freezes up' ? if yes, you could check where it mounts and just chmod it I imagine (otherwise check from root):

Code:

sudo chmod 777 /dev/sdx

[edit 2]
If neither works, ssh into the board when its locked up and pastbin dmesg for us

Hi Luke,
None of the above work. "freezes up" is probably not the correct description. The device appears to power off. The white and red leds turn off as well as the green led on the pcie card.
At this point the machine is totally inaccessible including via ssh.
If you log in as "rock" without xserver running everything is fine. You can access and use the ssd. As soon as you run startx the device powers off.

This is bizarre. Anyways, as I've already said earlier today we'll look into it - but its not at the top of the list at the moment. We'll get to it in time.
In the meantime, keep at it - perhaps you'll find a solution. Off the top of my head I cannot think of a reason why the board would lock up completely AND ONLY in DE as user and not root, with the SSD/HDDs connected via PCIe. Anything in xorg logs (look at .old)? check for clues, so we have something to go on when we get to it.