Re: Tuesday morning fun (can't get to gdm login prompt)

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ctl-alt-f8 and login as root to investigate?

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Brian Johnson <voyager.106@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Happy Tuesday all, 

So, an interesting thing happened to me when I came into work this morning....my computer was sitting at the password prompt to unencrypt my disk so I could continue booting my machine. Apparently we had a power outage at work last night.

So, I put in my encrcyption password and continued to watch it boot up. It went, and went, and went and right when I thought it was going to give me my login prompt, it...stopped. My mouse cursur is just a spinning ball of wait. I'm never given the opportunity to log in, it's just a black screen with my spinning cursor.

I've tried each of the different kernels on my computer, all PAE -- 3.4.0-1, 3.4.4-3, and 3.4.4-5, and nothing seems to change.

However, I was just able to boot into runlevel 3, log in as myself, and run 'startx' and get in that way. When I do it, though, it runs *very* sluggish. Gnome-shell, with nothing but an xterm, is running ~65% cpu and my load average is running at 2.16.

I can't find anything that might have been updated that would explain the issue. I have 3 machines all running Fedora 17, one of which I know is completely up to date as my work computer is, and I don't see the issue on it (had a power outage at the house this morning, so I had to reboot the one at home as well).

Any thoughts greatly appreciated, thanks!

Brian

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