Tuesday morning fun (can't get to gdm login prompt)

[Jack Craig]

ctl-alt-f8 and login as root to investigate?

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Brian Johnson <voyager.106 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Happy Tuesday all,
>
> So, an interesting thing happened to me when I came into work this
> morning....my computer was sitting at the password prompt to unencrypt my
> disk so I could continue booting my machine. Apparently we had a power
> outage at work last night.
>
> So, I put in my encrcyption password and continued to watch it boot up. It
> went, and went, and went and right when I thought it was going to give me
> my login prompt, it...stopped. My mouse cursur is just a spinning ball of
> wait. I'm never given the opportunity to log in, it's just a black screen
> with my spinning cursor.
>
> I've tried each of the different kernels on my computer, all PAE --
> 3.4.0-1, 3.4.4-3, and 3.4.4-5, and nothing seems to change.
>
> However, I was just able to boot into runlevel 3, log in as myself, and
> run 'startx' and get in that way. When I do it, though, it runs *very*
> sluggish. Gnome-shell, with nothing but an xterm, is running ~65% cpu and
> my load average is running at 2.16.
>
> I can't find anything that might have been updated that would explain the
> issue. I have 3 machines all running Fedora 17, one of which I know is
> completely up to date as my work computer is, and I don't see the issue on
> it (had a power outage at the house this morning, so I had to reboot the
> one at home as well).
>
> Any thoughts greatly appreciated, thanks!
>
> Brian
>
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