Fedora 9 Freeze At Login

Kyle Lanigan k.a.lanigan at gmail.com
Tue Sep 2 19:12:26 UTC 2008


Well so I got it froze elsewhere now. However, the freeze happens  
before the login loads up only when I add to the kernel line  
"acpi=no". Otherwise, it boots up, let's me enter username and  
password at login and then freezes there.




On 2-Sep-08, at 11:50 AM, Nigel Henry wrote:

> On Tuesday 02 September 2008 18:21, Kyle Lanigan wrote:
>> On 2-Sep-08, at 8:55 AM, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
>>> On 9/2/08, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:
>>>> Kyle Lanigan wrote:
>>>>>>>> Have you tried logging in in text mode?
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>>> Earlier you might have been able to enter text mode by Ctrl-Alt- 
>>>>>> F1,
>>>>>> or alternatively by using something like Knoppix to edit /etc/
>>>>>> inittab
>>>>>> and change id:5 to id:3 .
>>>>>
>>>>> The Live CD works amazingly fine on my computer.
>>>>> If possible, could you give an in-depth instruction on what to do
>>>>> with
>>>>> the ID:5 change to ID:3?
>>>>
>>>> Firstly, I'm no Fedora guru, and the other Tim is much more likely
>>>> than me
>>>> to have the correct diagnosis.
>>>>
>>>> It is just that if the system freezes in this sort of way,
>>>> my first step would be to eliminate problems with X by running in
>>>> text-mode.
>>>>
>>>> One way to do this is to edit /etc/inittab, and change the line
>>>> id:5:initdefault:
>>>> to
>>>> id:3:initdefault:
>>>>
>>>> This line in inittab determines which mode linux boots into.
>>>
>>> I had to do exactly that cause after install, when I tried to log  
>>> in,
>>> my system froze. In my case there is something wrong trying to boot
>>> into X mode directly. If I boot in runlevel 3 and then startx, I  
>>> have
>>> no problems.
>>> However, if I kill the X server (or normal logout) and then try to
>>> start it up again with startx, the system hangs up again (can't  
>>> kill X
>>> server, the kernel doesn't seem to catch the ACPI events when I push
>>> the switch off button...)
>>>
>>> Kyle, do you see any unexpected image after typing your name and
>>> password, some bizarre screen or is it just a clear frozen image of
>>> your desktop?
>>
>> Yea, it's just a clear image the desktop background while mouse,
>> keyboard and everything else just sits frozen there.
>>
>> I'm gonna give a go to some of the other suggestions to see if that
>> lets Fedora run.
>
>> Sincerely,
>>         Kyle Lanigan
>
> I've had a whole bunch of similar problems on a new machine I built,  
> using and
> Asus M2N-X Plus mobo. To boot anything, that is live cd's, or  
> install cd's, I
> had to disable acpi on the mobo. Then to boot the install cd's I had  
> to add
> boot options, mainly acpi=off to the kernel line to avoid the machine
> freezing up. Post install, I've had to add acpi=off to /boot/grub/ 
> grub.conf,
> or /boot/grub/menu.lst in most cases.
>
> Regarding the Fedora 9 install on this machine, Fedora 9 installed  
> ok, but
> post-install locked up the machine when X tried to start, and before  
> the GDM
> login screen opened. A hard reset, and adding acpi=off to the kernel  
> line in
> Grub, got the machine booted up ok, but after the machine is running  
> for some
> hours, perhaps days, I again get the machine locking up for no  
> apparent
> reason.
>
> Another suggestion I saw was to add nosmp to the kernel line (along  
> with
> acpi=off|), if you don't have a dual core processor, which I don't  
> have. I'm
> currently trying this on my Kubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 install, which  
> locks up
> from time to time, as does F8, F9, Debian Etch, and Kubuntu GG 7.10.
>
> This is all a bit trial and error as far as I'm concerned, and am  
> simply
> trying to resolve a problem.
>
> If it works, it works, and if it doesn't work, I'll try something  
> else.
>
> 2¢ worth of perhaps nothing.
>
> Nigel.
>
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Sincerely,
         Kyle Lanigan





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