F10 - system hangs after anacron OK

[Jim]

David Burns wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> 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?
>> cntl
>> s and q seemed to do nothing.
>> So what should ctrl-s and q do?
>>     
>
> I was  hoping control-s would stop the screen so you could read the
> iptables message. Seems to me I have done that before, but not
> recently. Maybe it no longer works.
>
>   
>> What is prefdm?
>>     
> prefdm is trying to launch a desktop manager, I think. Have you tried
> booting into text mode or single user? Adding a 3 to the end of the
> kernel line will put you in text mode, I think. If X is your problem,
> that would work around it.
>
> Dave
>
>   
That's the big problem, Linux changes so fast that what was last year, 
is not for this year.
Going on to Google to do a search for something that is FC10, some guy 
makes a wild guess about what happen with the same problem on FC7. It 
just doesn't apply.
Now I know why my hair is getting grayer at the age of 69.