Constant reboot

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 23 March 2010 17:34:45 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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.
> 
Of course, although knoppix offers the comfort of a gui :-)  However, I didn't 
need either, now that I've found and fixed the problem.

Anne
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