Everything was working OK yesterday. I did do a yum update (had been a few days since the last one, but don't think I got a new kernel).
Now it just sits there after anacron started with an OK.
What do I do to get this going???
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Everything was working OK yesterday. I did do a yum update (had been a few days since the last one, but don't think I got a new kernel).
Now it just sits there after anacron started with an OK.
If I press the power button, it goes through orderly shutdown.
What do I do to get this going???
And I don't get a menu to select an earlier kernel. I tried pressing the space bar and such. <alt-d> is what I use to get past the progress bars to see what is happening.
I do notice that when iptables is starting there is some message about time being off. But I can't catch it, it scrolls by too fast.
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
I do notice that when iptables is starting there is some message about time being off. But I can't catch it, it scrolls by too fast.
Do control-s and q work during boot? Dave
David Burns wrote:
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
I do notice that when iptables is starting there is some message about time being off. But I can't catch it, it scrolls by too fast.
Do control-s and q work during boot?
When do those play in?
I tried a number more times. Frequently, <altD> would not work until it hung after anacron. Sometimes it would. So the system is a micro notepad (www.oqo.com) and I disconnected it from its dock and my KVM and worked with its thumb pad.
I was able to get the kernel menu by pressing an arrow key right at the beginning. Using and older kernel did not make a difference.
cntl s and q seemed to do nothing.
I finally succeeded in getting it into interactive mode and, not really knowing what I was doing, selected which deamons to start and which not. I started what 'looked' important but not things like NetworkManager, Bluetooth, cron, ssh, and so forth. Finally it gets to anacron and I don't start that. Next is 'local', that seems to be where it hung before, so I say no. Next is webmin (hey, I thought I disabled that!), and said no. Then I get:
init: prefdm main process (1763) terminated with status 1 init: prefdm main process ended, respawning
This was repeated a number of times, each with a different number (pid?), finally stopping with
init: prefdm respawning too fast, stopped
And hung. Power key shuts things down.
So what should ctrl-s and q do?
In interactive mode what MUST I run?
What is service local?
What is prefdm?
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
David Burns wrote:
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
I do notice that when iptables is starting there is some message about time being off. But I can't catch it, it scrolls by too fast.
Do control-s and q work during boot?
When do those play in? cntl s and q seemed to do nothing. So what should ctrl-s and q do?
I was hoping control-s would stop the screen so you could read the iptables message. Seems to me I have done that before, but not recently. Maybe it no longer works.
What is prefdm?
prefdm is trying to launch a desktop manager, I think. Have you tried booting into text mode or single user? Adding a 3 to the end of the kernel line will put you in text mode, I think. If X is your problem, that would work around it.
Dave
David Burns wrote:
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
David Burns wrote:
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
I do notice that when iptables is starting there is some message about time being off. But I can't catch it, it scrolls by too fast.
Do control-s and q work during boot?
When do those play in? cntl s and q seemed to do nothing. So what should ctrl-s and q do?
I was hoping control-s would stop the screen so you could read the iptables message. Seems to me I have done that before, but not recently. Maybe it no longer works.
What is prefdm?
prefdm is trying to launch a desktop manager, I think. Have you tried booting into text mode or single user? Adding a 3 to the end of the kernel line will put you in text mode, I think. If X is your problem, that would work around it.
Dave
That's the big problem, Linux changes so fast that what was last year, is not for this year. Going on to Google to do a search for something that is FC10, some guy makes a wild guess about what happen with the same problem on FC7. It just doesn't apply. Now I know why my hair is getting grayer at the age of 69.
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
David Burns wrote:
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
I do notice that when iptables is starting there is some message about time being off. But I can't catch it, it scrolls by too fast.
Do control-s and q work during boot?
When do those play in?
I tried a number more times. Frequently, <altD> would not work until it hung after anacron. Sometimes it would. So the system is a micro notepad (www.oqo.com) and I disconnected it from its dock and my KVM and worked with its thumb pad.
I was able to get the kernel menu by pressing an arrow key right at the beginning. Using and older kernel did not make a difference.
cntl s and q seemed to do nothing.
I finally succeeded in getting it into interactive mode and, not really knowing what I was doing, selected which deamons to start and which not. I started what 'looked' important but not things like NetworkManager, Bluetooth, cron, ssh, and so forth. Finally it gets to anacron and I don't start that. Next is 'local', that seems to be where it hung before, so I say no. Next is webmin (hey, I thought I disabled that!), and said no. Then I get:
init: prefdm main process (1763) terminated with status 1 init: prefdm main process ended, respawning
This was repeated a number of times, each with a different number (pid?), finally stopping with
init: prefdm respawning too fast, stopped
And hung. Power key shuts things down.
So what should ctrl-s and q do?
In interactive mode what MUST I run?
What is service local?
What is prefdm?
It was the wrong "Nvidia" driver that I had installed that cause the problem. Got the correct nvidia driver and everything is OK, Thanks for your help.
Jim wrote:
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
David Burns wrote:
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
I do notice that when iptables is starting there is some message about time being off. But I can't catch it, it scrolls by too fast.
Do control-s and q work during boot?
When do those play in?
I tried a number more times. Frequently, <altD> would not work until it hung after anacron. Sometimes it would. So the system is a micro notepad (www.oqo.com) and I disconnected it from its dock and my KVM and worked with its thumb pad.
I was able to get the kernel menu by pressing an arrow key right at the beginning. Using and older kernel did not make a difference.
cntl s and q seemed to do nothing.
I finally succeeded in getting it into interactive mode and, not really knowing what I was doing, selected which deamons to start and which not. I started what 'looked' important but not things like NetworkManager, Bluetooth, cron, ssh, and so forth. Finally it gets to anacron and I don't start that. Next is 'local', that seems to be where it hung before, so I say no. Next is webmin (hey, I thought I disabled that!), and said no. Then I get:
init: prefdm main process (1763) terminated with status 1 init: prefdm main process ended, respawning
This was repeated a number of times, each with a different number (pid?), finally stopping with
init: prefdm respawning too fast, stopped
And hung. Power key shuts things down.
So what should ctrl-s and q do?
In interactive mode what MUST I run?
What is service local?
What is prefdm?
It was the wrong "Nvidia" driver that I had installed that cause the problem. Got the correct nvidia driver and everything is OK, Thanks for your help.
No. Openchrome.
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