I hate to make a post like this, but I'm totally confused.
I've been using FC2T1 since it came out; until now the only real problem I'd run into was X crashing due to psaux. But, today I downloaded kernel version 2.6.3-1.106 as well as about 500 other updates (I had already downloaded all of the XFree86 updates the day before and had no problems). But now I cannot boot the system with any version of the kernel. The X server starts up, but the screen just turns black with the 'X' cursor. Then I press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to the login screen, and the system is hanging just after the step where the swap space is activated/mounted. So, I can never anywhere near a login prompt to try to diagnose the problem. One other thing: when I downloaded all of those updates, I did it in two groups; the first group had the kernel updates, all lib* updates, and I think systembase (something like that), and the second group was everything else. When I started up2date for the second group, it couldn't show the little pictures on the 'forward', 'back', and 'cancel' buttons (the blue arrows and red X). Then I restarted gkrellm and it said that it could load some .png files. So I reinstalled libpng (I think version 1.2.5) and logged out of KDE. The X server wouldn't start and give me the blue login screen; so I rebooted, and haven't been able to get into Linux since.
If anyone sees any of the symptoms I've mentioned or has any ideas, I would greatly appreciate any help I can get.
TIA, Richard Ayer III
May be you can try to boot from Fedora CD and type 'linux rescue' to see what happens in your system. Hope it helps.
Bartolomeus
--- Richard Ayer III rwa1@cec.wustl.edu wrote:
I hate to make a post like this, but I'm totally confused.
I've been using FC2T1 since it came out; until now the only real problem I'd run into was X crashing due to psaux. But, today I downloaded kernel version 2.6.3-1.106 as well as about 500 other updates (I had already downloaded all of the XFree86 updates the day before and had no problems). But now I cannot boot the system with any version of the kernel. The X server starts up, but the screen just turns black with the 'X' cursor. Then I press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to the login screen, and the system is hanging just after the step where the swap space is activated/mounted. So, I can never anywhere near a login prompt to try to diagnose the problem. One other thing: when I downloaded all of those updates, I did it in two groups; the first group had the kernel updates, all lib* updates, and I think systembase (something like that), and the second group was everything else. When I started up2date for the second group, it couldn't show the little pictures on the 'forward', 'back', and 'cancel' buttons (the blue arrows and red X). Then I restarted gkrellm and it said that it could load some .png files. So I reinstalled libpng (I think version 1.2.5) and logged out of KDE. The X server wouldn't start and give me the blue login screen; so I rebooted, and haven't been able to get into Linux since.
If anyone sees any of the symptoms I've mentioned or has any ideas, I would greatly appreciate any help I can get.
TIA, Richard Ayer III
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When your system comes up into grub, press e to edit the config. Remove the /rhgb from the kernel line and add "nogui" without the quotes to that line. Press return to save that line change and b to boot from that temporary edit.
I had the same issue and this process worked for me. Since this happened late last night for me, I have not had time to figure out what is happening.
Bartolomeus Irwanto wrote:
May be you can try to boot from Fedora CD and type 'linux rescue' to see what happens in your system. Hope it helps.
Bartolomeus
--- Richard Ayer III rwa1@cec.wustl.edu wrote:
I hate to make a post like this, but I'm totally confused.
I've been using FC2T1 since it came out; until now the only real problem I'd run into was X crashing due to psaux. But, today I downloaded kernel version 2.6.3-1.106 as well as about 500 other updates (I had already downloaded all of the XFree86 updates the day before and had no problems). But now I cannot boot the system with any version of the kernel. The X server starts up, but the screen just turns black with the 'X' cursor. Then I press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to the login screen, and the system is hanging just after the step where the swap space is activated/mounted. So, I can never anywhere near a login prompt to try to diagnose the problem. One other thing: when I downloaded all of those updates, I did it in two groups; the first group had the kernel updates, all lib* updates, and I think systembase (something like that), and the second group was everything else. When I started up2date for the second group, it couldn't show the little pictures on the 'forward', 'back', and 'cancel' buttons (the blue arrows and red X). Then I restarted gkrellm and it said that it could load some .png files. So I reinstalled libpng (I think version 1.2.5) and logged out of KDE. The X server wouldn't start and give me the blue login screen; so I rebooted, and haven't been able to get into Linux since.
If anyone sees any of the symptoms I've mentioned or has any ideas, I would greatly appreciate any help I can get.
TIA, Richard Ayer III
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I haven't tried the 'linux rescue' idea yet, but I may if things don't get resolved some other way.
Well, changing from rhgb to nogui I was able to complete the boot process and login to the machine. One thing I noticed, X still tries to start up; but stops with the blue background and a message that some picture of type png couldn't be read. That's the third time I've seen it complain about png files. I had downloaded the libpng-1.2.5 source, compiled and installed it (both before this problem, and again after to try to fix it). I noticed that it installed to /usr/local/lib, but version 1.1.2 (I believe) is installed in /usr/lib; could this be causing a conflict that is creating this problem?
Richard Ayer III
I would seem that tonight's updates fixed this issue.
Richard Ayer III wrote:
I haven't tried the 'linux rescue' idea yet, but I may if things don't get resolved some other way.
Well, changing from rhgb to nogui I was able to complete the boot process and login to the machine. One thing I noticed, X still tries to start up; but stops with the blue background and a message that some picture of type png couldn't be read. That's the third time I've seen it complain about png files. I had downloaded the libpng-1.2.5 source, compiled and installed it (both before this problem, and again after to try to fix it). I noticed that it installed to /usr/local/lib, but version 1.1.2 (I believe) is installed in /usr/lib; could this be causing a conflict that is creating this problem?
Richard Ayer III
Unfortunately, they did not fix the problem for me; the new kernel did add a new one though. I have a 3Com 3c905B NIC using the kernel-included 3c59x module. The new 109 kernel complains about a whole list of parameters it doesn't like (which, of course, I forgot to write down); thus the module won't load under the 109 kernel. I'm still baffled, especially since the updates fixed the issue for you Rich.
Richard Ayer III
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 08:26, Richard Ayer III wrote:
Unfortunately, they did not fix the problem for me; the new kernel did add a new one though. I have a 3Com 3c905B NIC using the kernel-included 3c59x module. The new 109 kernel complains about a whole list of parameters it doesn't like (which, of course, I forgot to write down); thus the module won't load under the 109 kernel. I'm still baffled, especially since the updates fixed the issue for you Rich.
Please bugzilla this, and add as much info as possible.
Dave
Okay, filed one bug for the rhgb/X stuff, and one for the NIC stuff: rhgb/X: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117658 NIC: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117659
Richard Ayer III
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