Scrambled screen, then no Fedora

[Eli Wapniarski]

On Thursday 03 June 2010 21:31:37 Anne Wilson wrote:
> I'm not sure what's happening on my new laptop - the F13 one.  I had quite
> a few windows open. when suddenly the screen scrambled - it looked as
> though holes were punched in every character.  The wallpaper and plasmoids
> were unaffected.  It held like that for a few seconds, then dropped out to
> a black screen with a white cursor.  It wouldn't accept any input from
> keyboard or mouse.
> 
> I powered off, waited a while and powered up again.  It got to the
> f-infinity buble completed, and stuck there.  Thinking that it may be a
> kernel update (I usually reboot when I see one, but could have missed
> doing) I tried the previous kernel.  Exactly the same.  f-infinity. 
> That's all.
> 
> Any ideas as to what could have gone wrong?  Without a clue it's difficult
> to decide on a plan of action.
> 
> Anne


If you was not doing anything unusual, then it sounds like either something 
bad happened to some hardware or your disk is full.

Eli

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