Constant reboot

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 23 March 2010 15:17, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 23 March 2010 13:52, Anne Wilson wrote:
> >> Since I ended up with a large number of zombie processes for
> >> chromium-browser I decided to shut down the laptop completely, to get a
> >> clean, cold boot. There I came unstuck.  This is F12, fully updated. 
> >> The bubble fills up, I see the Fedora logo, then it reboots.  I could
> >> try to catch it and get a level 3 login, of course, but since I haven't
> >> a clue what's causing this, I wouldn't know what to do next.  Any ideas?
> >
> > Argh!  I can't even get an level 3 boot.  I snatched it and edited the
> > grub
> > entry, but still it reboots.  I came to the conclusion that grub must be
> > damaged, so I ran grub-install, but on reboot, still the same thing
> > happens -
> > it looks fine up to the Fedora logo, then reboots.  I'm completely stuck.
>
> Utterly absurd for me to suggest something to you -
> like telling my grand-daughter how to improve her Irish dancing -
> but if it were me I would run something like Knoppix,
> and see what was in /var/log/messages , etc.
>
> Actually, the last time this happened to me
> my / partition was full.

Well, unless something like a core-dump has filled it, that shouldn't be the 
problem, but I'm beginning to think that I have to get my data off, so you 
are probably right about reaching for knoppix :-)

Anne