On Tuesday 23 March 2010 17:34:45 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > 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. > Of course, although knoppix offers the comfort of a gui :-) However, I didn't need either, now that I've found and fixed the problem. 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/20100323/4dfaf79d/attachment.bin
