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
Starting Gnome from runlevel 3 always results in cpu-hog gnome shell
here. I submitted a bugzilla report (don't have the id handy). So
far, no help. Maybe you could add some comments.