system crash

[Rich Thompson]

I would seem that tonight's updates fixed this issue.

Richard Ayer III wrote:
> I haven't tried the 'linux rescue' idea yet, but I may if things don't get
> resolved some other way.
> 
> Well, changing from rhgb to nogui I was able to complete the boot process
> and login to the machine. One thing I noticed, X still tries to start up;
> but stops with the blue background and a message that some picture of type
> png couldn't be read. That's the third time I've seen it complain about png
> files. I had downloaded the libpng-1.2.5 source, compiled and installed it
> (both before this problem, and again after to try to fix it). I noticed that
> it installed to /usr/local/lib, but version 1.1.2 (I believe) is installed
> in /usr/lib; could this be causing a conflict that is creating this problem?
> 
> Richard Ayer III
> 
> 
> 

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