Freezing at login

[Michael Breuer]

On 1/18/2010 7:18 PM, antonio montagnani wrote:
> Michael Breuer ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on
> 19/01/2010 01:10:
>    
>> On 1/18/2010 7:00 PM, antonio montagnani wrote:
>>      
>>> Greg ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on 19/01/2010 00:56:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> On 19/01/2010 10:51 AM, antonio montagnani wrote:
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>>> I upgraded a f12 to rawhide, but when I rebooted my system freezes
>>>>> before having the login screen with an arrow that I can move, but that's
>>>>> all.
>>>>>
>>>>> I started also in text mode but when I issue startx, system freezes again.
>>>>> The same with nomodeset in boot option.
>>>>>
>>>>> How do I recover???
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>> have you tried blacklisting the Opensource nvidia driver an then
>>>> removing it an then rebooting? does that help, see this thread.
>>>> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=235793 , im assuming you
>>>> have a nvidia chipset?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> *Regards Greg*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> no Nvidia, it is a Intel chip
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> Just for fun, try switching to kde - or even xdm just to rule out
>> gnome/gdm. Also, have you checked your log files (Xorg, gdm, system, etc.)?
>>      
> before going to sleep, one last question: how do I switch to kde?? Test
> will continue tomorrow morning. Good night
>
>    
/etc/sysconfig/desktop - DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE [or GNOME or XDM]
then telinit 5

If you're having issues getting back to a console, you can boot to 
runlevel 3, then change config files, then telinit 3 && sleep 120 && 
telinit 5

If things work, you can chvt back to the console and control c to stay 
in runlevel 5. Else, you'll be somewhat gracefully returned to a text 
console (unless something hangs).