[fedora-list] two major failures after yesterday updates - anyone else

Rich Mahn rich at lat.com
Fri Oct 30 12:33:54 UTC 2009


Gabriel Ramirez wrote:
> On 10/29/2009 02:23 PM, Mike Cloaked wrote:
>   
>>  
>> In my wife's case she reported that when hitting the enter key to login
>> under kdm the screen went black, and this was followed by a cursor at top
>> right and repeated lines containing text, with "nouveau_fifo_free:freeing
>> fifo 1"
>>
>> So this appears to have been a graphics issue concerning the nouveau driver
>> - however this evening I was able to boot this machine and am running on the
>> previous kernel for safety. (2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i686.PAE)
>>     
>
> in the above case, maybe her mistyped her password in one ocassion  and
> when typed it correctly , the machine got the following bug
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506171  " If password
> entered incorrectly in KDM, next successful login causes X server
> shutdown and hang  "
>
> maybe you can try to mistype your password and enter correctly with
> kernel 2.6.30.8-64 to discard kernel-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i686.PAE as the cause
>
>   
>> The other machine is extinct - I cannot boot at all even to a liveCD so I
>> can't investigate it.  However at the time that failed there were weird
>> graphics artifacts with multicoloured lines - and it is conceivable that it
>> could have also been a graphics issue - on boot it puts port00: after the
>> first message on the screen, and then some stuff on the screen (after the
>> post check complets) but no boot - I tried partedmagic DVD but it won't boot
>> at all.  I suppose that the disc could have gone bad and over the weekend
>> will replace the drive and see if that allows a boot and re-install - but I
>> am out of ideas on that... however the nouveau failure on my wife's machine
>> worries me....
>>     
>
> if you disconnect the hard drive, maybe you can boot from a livecd, to
> see if the motherboard and video card are fine. I don't know if the
> livecd include the memttest
>
> maybe the sata cable failed or the sata port where the disk is connected
> failed, if you have a sata port free you can connect the hard drive in
> it if using uuids in the partitions
>
>
> Gabriel
>   
I would also try these (not necessarily in order):
1.  reset you BIOS to defaults
2.  you should be able to boot a CD.  If you are trying a linux OS, try
booting in single mode.  An install CD in text mode should come up with
a bad disk unless the disk is really messing around with the rest of the
system.
3.  try a fedora recovery disk.  when it asks about finding/mounting
existing systems, say no.  then (assuming the disk is even seen) run the
various smartctl commands and see what you can find out.
4.  just for grins, try booting a msdos floppy, if you have one and have
a floppy drive.

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