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

[John Wendel]

On 07/10/2012 07:05 AM, Brian Johnson 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
>
>
Starting Gnome from runlevel 3 always results in cpu-hog gnome shell 
here. I submitted a bugzilla report (don't have the id handy).  So far, 
no help. Maybe you could add some comments.

John


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