Constant reboot

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 15:37 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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 :-)

Or just use Fedora in Rescue mode.

poc