F10 - system hangs after anacron OK

[Jim]

Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> David Burns wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Robert Moskowitz 
>> <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>>  
>>> I do notice that when iptables is starting there is some message 
>>> about time
>>> being off. But I can't catch it, it scrolls by too fast.
>>>     
>>
>> Do control-s and q work during boot?
>
> When do those play in?
>
>
> I tried a number more times. Frequently, <altD> would not work until 
> it hung after anacron. Sometimes it would. So the system is a micro 
> notepad (www.oqo.com) and I disconnected it from its dock and my KVM 
> and worked with its thumb pad.
>
> I was able to get the kernel menu by pressing an arrow key right at 
> the beginning. Using and older kernel did not make a difference.
>
> cntl
> s and q seemed to do nothing.
>
> I finally succeeded in getting it into interactive mode and, not 
> really knowing what I was doing, selected which deamons to start and 
> which not. I started what 'looked' important but not things like 
> NetworkManager, Bluetooth, cron, ssh, and so forth. Finally it gets to 
> anacron and I don't start that. Next is 'local', that seems to be 
> where it hung before, so I say no. Next is webmin (hey, I thought I 
> disabled that!), and said no. Then I get:
>
> init: prefdm main process (1763) terminated with status 1
> init: prefdm main process ended, respawning
>
> This was repeated a number of times, each with a different number 
> (pid?), finally stopping with
>
> init: prefdm respawning too fast, stopped
>
> And hung. Power key shuts things down.
>
> So what should ctrl-s and q do?
>
> In interactive mode what MUST I run?
>
> What is service local?
>
> What is prefdm?
>
>
It was the wrong "Nvidia" driver that I had installed that cause the 
problem.
Got the correct nvidia driver and everything is OK, Thanks for your help.