On Tuesday 23 March 2010 15:35:25 Patrick Boutilier wrote: > On 03/23/2010 11:46 AM, 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. > > Same thing with run level S (Single user mode)? > Yes. No different kernel nor different mode has any effect at all. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089455.html refers to Fedora 13, but it was exactly the same, and like the reporter there, the message about iTCO_wdt was the only thing I could see that looked wrong. Reverting udev has cured it - I'm writing on it now :-) The udev package -16 should be avoided. Apparently -19 is in the pipeline. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20100323/e7062da9/attachment.bin
