New kernel doesn't complete booting
Christopher Beland
beland at alum.mit.edu
Mon Jan 12 08:00:38 UTC 2009
On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 12:35 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 02:50:55AM -0500, Christopher Beland wrote:
> > Today,
> > I tried rebooting with kernel-2.6.29-0.19.rc0.git9.fc11.x86_64, and it
> > got as far as:
> >
> > Jan 11 01:28:00 free-spin init: tty4 main process (2340) killed by TERM signal
>
> If you are here that means that you already booted. Your user-space
> does not start properly, and that may be a kernel fault or not. It
> is far from clear from what you posted.
>
> In the worst case you can boot with 'init=/bin/bash' to a shell
> prompt, if booting "single user" does not work, and check log files,
> where errors are coming from, what 'dmesg' has to say, etc.
I never had any trouble booting any kernels, only shutting down during
the reboot process. But the latest update,
kernel-2.6.29-0.25.rc0.git14.fc11.x86_64, rebooted with no problems.
-B.
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