Blank Screen After Yum Update (followup to Kevin Kempter) - Solved {sortof}

[Roger Finks]

kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com wrote:

>On Thursday 13 October 2005 15:27, Noel Murphy wrote:
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>>Hi All,
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>>Unfortunately, I joined the list after Kevin Kempter made a similar
>>post about this problem just this morning so I couldn't respond to
>>his posting.
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>>That being said.....
>>
>>I have the EXACT same problem as Kevin. However, I struggled with
>>this issue a bit over the past few days and have discovered a bit more.
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>>When I update everything, I get into the state like Kevin. My screen
>>goes blank, in fact it goes into sleep mode. I can ssh into the
>>machine and everything seems to work fine there, but when I do a
>>shutdown / reboot, it never does. I think it gets hung trying to
>>shutdown a service or something.
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>>Once I'm in this state, I can boot the machine using the FC4 shipping
>>kernel (2.6.11....) and everything works again. (Kevin, you may want
>>to try this if you don't need an up to date kernel). However, this
>>didn't work for me because I needed a more current kernel for my tv-
>>tuner card.
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>>If I upgrade my kernel to the latest (2.6.13...), but do not upgrade
>>anything else, my machine works fine.
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>>So, it must be a combination of kernel + something else. I admit i
>>didn't spend too much time trying to figure out what the "something"
>>else was. I'm assuming it was something like the xorg stuff or maybe
>>something in KDE.
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>>Kevin, are you running KDE? if not, maybe we could rule that out.
>>
>>How about hardware?
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>>I have a vanilla PC.
>>Intel GLLY MoBo, but have the on board video disabled.
>>ATI Radeon 7000, PCI
>>512 MB ram
>>2.2 GHz Celeron
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>>Noel
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>Noel;
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>I swapped out the video card and it works fine. The problem was with the ATI 
>video card (I had the same one)
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Kevin and Noel - I have the same problem with an ATI Radeon 7500 card. 
Did you come up with any resolution other than swaping the card out?

Roger