Freezing at login

Michael Breuer mbreuer at majjas.com
Tue Jan 19 00:26:50 UTC 2010


On 1/18/2010 7:23 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.)?
>>      
> to resume:
>
> 1)no way to start in graphic login
>
> 2) if i boot with a F12 Kernel, startx works and I can have the graphic
> environment (with some glitches, i.e no wallpaper, resource menu not
> working...)
> 3) with F13 kernel, startx doesn't make me enter the graphic
> environment, I get only an arrow on a blank screen...
>
>    
First of all... get to runlevel 3 (text console).

At the grub screen, edit the boot line - add "3" to the end of the 
kernel line (with a leading space).

When you get the text console and login, edit /etc/inittab and change 
the default runlevel to 3.


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