Failed Install (additional gripes)

Michael K. Johnson johnsonm at redhat.com
Fri Aug 8 15:26:21 UTC 2003


On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 08:47:17AM -0400, Chris Elston wrote:
> to install more stuff later.  Reboot, go through the "first boot" deal and 
> then...nothing.  Well, not quite nothing.  White on black terminal comes 
> up with login prompt instead of graphical login.  Catch is, my keyboard 
> doesn't respond.  So even if I wanted to login or change to other virtual 
> terminals (Ctrl+Alt+F2, etc) I'm out of luck.  Tried rebooting again, just 
> to see if it had something to do w/ the "first boot" going wrong, but no 
> dice.  Tried reinstalling using the default "desktop" set of packages 
> thinking that I may have installed "too much" and some unnecessary 
> service was making my laptop hang.  Eventually I have the same problems, 
> hangs after graphical boot and goes to a unusable text-based login.

Have you tried booting with acpi=off?

(Yes, I ask this about every new kind of possible hardware-related
strangeness that first shows up now, it's amazing the variety of
problems we've seen caused by acpi...)

michaelkjohnson

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