failure to boot
James Wilkinson
james at westexe.demon.co.uk
Fri Nov 19 13:31:38 UTC 2004
Gerhard H. W. May wrote:
> I have downloaded and installed all available updates (using up2date),
> and the machine still works, as before (I was not certain that this
> would be the case). I then edited /etc/modprobe.conf back to its
> original state (deleted 'install yenta-socket /bin/true') and restarted
> the machine. This time I received a message regarding a 'kernel panic',
> and when I switched 'rhgb quite' off again it became clear that the
> process hung in some loop, with the same message being printed
> constantly. It was something about X11 trying to access some hardware
> (should I try and repeat that and copy down the message?).
Yes please, but it would probably make more sense to bugzilla (and the
Fedora developers) than it would to me!
> Clearly,
> enabling pcmcia is still not a great idea. Would this now qualify as
> the kind of problem I should report at bugzilla?
Yes.
James.
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