<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Gabriel Ramirez wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4AEA6C5E.9040203@gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 10/29/2009 02:23 PM, Mike Cloaked wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> 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) </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> in the above case, maybe her mistyped her password in one ocassion and when typed it correctly , the machine got the following bug <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506171">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506171</a> " 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 </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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.... </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> 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 </pre> </blockquote> 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. </body> </html>