On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 16:05 +0100, Philip Heron wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an old PC running F10, setup to play a simple animation in a > display. Nothing fancy. Yesterday the town was hit with a series of > power cuts which seems to have well and truely mucked it up. I took a > picture of the kind of errors I'm getting: > > http://www.bacomponents.co.uk/f10-startup-errors.jpeg > > The HAL bit sits for ages, then the screen blanks. X fails to start, > trying to login on the console gives me a password error, and ssh fails > to connect. I've run e2fsck on the disk and it seems fine. > > Should I just nuke it and start again? Or is there a handy way to fix it? ---- it should be a bit more graceful in handling this... In the past, I have pressed <Control><C> to cancel the process, then once it boots, I tell the system to restart and do not log in until it has done a normal restart. I think that there are many files left over from the abrupt shutdown in /proc that have to be cleaned out which is why you are getting those errors. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
