F10 - system hangs after anacron OK

[Robert Moskowitz]

Jim wrote:
> 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. 
No. Openchrome.