Em Qui, 2004-02-26 às 17:29, taehyun nam escreveu:
Hellow all, I have a fedora-version blue screen. Yes, the blue screen as of Windows. Two days ago, I updated some utilities using Synaptic and tries to shut down the computer. However, it did not shutdown and got stuck with a blue screen with the rolling sand watch that used to give a way to text-mode. So, I just push the button to turn it off.
Ok, may I assume you're a newbie in linux? When something goes wrong with X (simplifying, the linux graphical mode) try closing X first.
You can 1) restart X: type ctrl-alt-backspace 2) Go to a text-mode window and see if machine is still responding You can do this by typing CTRL-ALT-FX, where FX is from F1 to F6 in Fedora.
When you are on one of those windows, log is as root and type: telinit 3, wait for stuff happen and type enter. This way you have a linux without X enabled at this time. Is easier see what's wrong.
Once you're in text-mode, just type xinit. It will load X, without anything else, like gnome. In fact, you'll have mouse and a graphic terminal.
If you reached this step, type exit and return to text-mode. You will have some output from X, maybe there's something useful on it.
If it doesn't, type startx - it will load X, but with gnome or kde. If this is ok, your problem is with something else, a package called GDM.
Then, you will need to repair the gdm package.
When I turn on the computer the next time, booting went well, doing starting utilities and so on until it stop right before the log-in screen. And it again was the blue screen with the watch where it stoped.
Looks like a gdm error.
It doesn't boot from CD-ROM; Booting disk didn't help either.
Why not? Are your cd and floppy drives damaged? You can always set boot order in your BIOS setup.
Maybe it's possible to boot from cd and repair some things...