<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/3/19 Adam Pribyl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pribyl@lowlevel.cz">pribyl@lowlevel.cz</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, cornel panceac wrote:<br>
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> what debugging options are available when f15 no longer starts?<br>
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</div>Depends on when the start stops.<br>
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You may try serial console, dracut rdshell...<br>
<a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Dracut_problems" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Dracut_problems<br></a><br></blockquote><div>thank you. actually, while i was writing the above post, the system started, after ~6m45s. after disabling abrtd, akmods and some other md related daemon, the system returned to a 45s boot time but only entered text mode, and seems to be very slow on anything. attempts to startx failed. somebody else reported something similar on another thread. it was triggered too by the today 'yum update'. reboot/poweroff time is still very long.</div>
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