F10 hard lock issue

[Bill Davidsen]

Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:48 PM, gary artim <gartim at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I just upgraded my wife's laptop to F10 from F9 using preupgrade.
>>> other than not having enough free space (had to make some) the install
>>> went perfectly. Now I'm having a lockup issue.
>>>
>>> When it first starts everything hard locks. Then I hear the DvD head
>>> moving, some time later I can turn the caps lock on and off but there
>>> is a significant delay. Also, the mouse cursor works but nothing else
>>> does. I can't do Ctl-Alt-Backspace or get to any of the virtual
>>> terminals. Scanning through /var/log/messages I don't see anything
>>> useful. Any ideas on where to start? This thing was rock solid under
>>> F9.
>>>
>>> Compaq laptop Turion 64 1.8GHz w/ Radeon 200M chipset. 1GB system ram.
>>> Broadcom wireless using native driver.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Richard
>>>
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>> you could try adding to the grub boot screen a trailing 3 to boot without
>> a graphics interface...then login as root and type 'yum update'.
>> That's if you can
>> get this far... -- Gary
> 
> Actually I did end up trying something like that, so it is now fully updated...
> 
> Here's a few conditions I've discovered:
> 
> When I log in it seems I have 10-25 minutes before it locks.
> If I don't log (leave at login screen) in it does not lock up, but it
> locks up almost immediately when I do log in.
> It's seems to only be a GUI lock. I can SSH into the machine, however
> top doesn't show any process using 100% cpu.
> 
> Any and all ideas are appreceated. This is actually the wife's laptop
> which I recently converted to linux. She was a happy F9 user but when
> my preupgrade upgrade went so well on my laptop I decided to upgrade
> her's as well. Needless to say she's less than thrilled right now.
> 
You must be a newlywed to mess with your wife's *anything* until/unless you are 
asked to do so. My wife is still on FC7, and she is happy with it. She is behind 
two levels of firewall, and her (seamonkey) browser is fully updated, and mail 
goes through my corporate filters, not some ISP.

You might diddle the graphics settings on the boot line, video= and/or xdriver= 
may help. Post video hardware and dmesg details here, hopefully someone can 
offer useful hints.

Good luck!

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