F10 won't bootup. Stalls at startx, and gdm

max bianco maximilianbianco at gmail.com
Sat Mar 28 22:15:45 UTC 2009


On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Nigel Henry
<cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr> wrote:
> F10 was booting up fine yesterday, and I had been trying to get Hydrogen
> working so that it didn't crash the desktop when I tried to start it. Got
> that problem resolved, and had rebooted a few times during getting the
> Hydrogen problem resolved.
>
> Today I try to bootup F10 and it stalls when trying to startx, and gdm. The
> monitor is just clicking off, and on. No text, no nothing.
>
> Next I bootup, appending the kernel line in grub to boot into runlevel 3,
> which gets me into runlevel 3. I login with username, and password, then su
> to root. Then I type gdm, and gdm opens, and I can login to KDE with no
> problems.
>
> There are some 300MB of updates waiting for my F10, but this problem has
> arrived before installing any of them.
>
> With most of the installs on this Asus M2N-X Plus mobo, I have to append the
> kernel line in grub with acpi-off, otherwise the bootup hangs when starting
> X. Everything is locked up. With acpi=off F10 has been booting ok up to to
> ysterday. Quite why I'm now seeing this problem with F10 is to say the least,
> a bit bizarre.
>
> Anyone have any ideas as how to resolve the problem, apart from re-installing
> F10?
>
> Nigel.

Exactly what kind of voodoo did you have to do to get hydrogen working?

I looked at the web page and i notice it uses QT3(I am assuming were
talking the drum machine program Hydrogen BTW), I don't know if this
is significant but I thought KDE used QT4, maybe some interlibrary
warfare is going on....

I also know that some updates to X are available, these might solve
your problem if you can get them installed.

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