Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 23 March 2010 13:52, Anne Wilson wrote: >> Since I ended up with a large number of zombie processes for >> chromium-browser I decided to shut down the laptop completely, to get a >> clean, cold boot. There I came unstuck. This is F12, fully updated. The >> bubble fills up, I see the Fedora logo, then it reboots. I could try to >> catch it and get a level 3 login, of course, but since I haven't a clue >> what's causing this, I wouldn't know what to do next. Any ideas? >> > Argh! I can't even get an level 3 boot. I snatched it and edited the > grub > entry, but still it reboots. I came to the conclusion that grub must be > damaged, so I ran grub-install, but on reboot, still the same thing > happens - > it looks fine up to the Fedora logo, then reboots. I'm completely stuck. Utterly absurd for me to suggest something to you - like telling my grand-daughter how to improve her Irish dancing - but if it were me I would run something like Knoppix, and see what was in /var/log/messages , etc. Actually, the last time this happened to me my / partition was full. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
