One of my systems stalls at start-up

Antonio M antonio.montagnani at gmail.com
Mon Sep 8 07:20:34 UTC 2014


Nathan, it is not a broken install (maybe that I have not been very
clear) , but stall happens sometimes (I think that system is not
really stalling but waiting for something to start, I don't know what
is causing the trouble)

Tnx for help

2014-09-08 9:14 GMT+02:00 Nathan Schwarz <nathan at notwhite.ro>:
> No, what I mean is you boot from a live cd/usb OR from a netinstall
> medium; In case of the install medium you'll have to hit a
> keycombination to reach a terminal.
> This keystroke/hotkey/... is ctrl, alt and f2 to 4, I don't remmeber
> which of the f-keys it was.
> In case of a live cd/usb you just let it start and open a terminal.
>
> Then you mount the root-partition ('/') of your broken install, go to
> /var/log/ and take a look at the log-files.
>
> - Nathan
>
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> On 09-08/ 9:05, Antonio M wrote:
>> Do you mean that I have to dig into systemlog immediately after stalling??
>>
>> Note: no reason for HTML e-mail, I didn't set the option in Gmail
>>
>> 2014-09-08 8:56 GMT+02:00 Nathan Schwarz <nathan at notwhite.ro>:
>> > It should still write to the systemlog; yank in a live-version or fedora
>> > installation (in case of fedora installation disk/usb hit
>> > ctrl-alt-f[234]; on of these takes you to a terminal), mount the
>> > root-partition and take a look at the log.
>> >
>> > - Nathan
>> >
>> > Unrelated ps: Is there a reason you use HTML-mail for a few lines of
>> > text?
>> >
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>> > On 09-08/ 8:51, Antonio M wrote:
>> >>    When I start one of my systems, sometimes it stalls, even using Esc to
>> >>    see what is going on, I cannot enter the text mode.If I issue a
>> >>    Ctrl+Alt+Del, it switches to text mode but it is so fast that I cannot
>> >>    read anything..
>> >>    Any advice is appreciated (is systemd to be blamed?)
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