On Tuesday 23 March 2010 15:18, Martin Kho 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. > > Hi, > Was udev updated? Bruno Wolf III had some sort of the same issue in fc13 > [1]. Reverting udev solved it. > Reading on through that thread, the symptoms are identical - and the error message about iTCO_wdt is also identical. OK - in the rescue system, udev is downgraded - the process finished with 'unable to connect to dbus' - I don't know whether that's to be expected. Now to reboot. Bingo! The latest udev in F12 is poisoned, too! Anne
