On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 15:37 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > 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 :-) Or just use Fedora in Rescue mode. poc
