On Tuesday 23 March 2010 15:17, Timothy Murphy wrote: > 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. Well, unless something like a core-dump has filled it, that shouldn't be the problem, but I'm beginning to think that I have to get my data off, so you are probably right about reaching for knoppix :-) Anne
