Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko <at> greshko.com> writes: > > This was a bizarre coincidence but given the "lesson" I thought I'd offer it up. > > I had not updated this one system for a while so I ran "yum update". Noticed that the list of updates included a > kernel update and x11-drivers. Upon rebooting the system stopped/hung at "Starting GNOME display > manager". > > Everything had been running perfectly fine prior to the update. So, of course, I assumed an update was to blame. > > It took a bit of time, but I finally tracked down the problem to the DVI cable which had been chewed on by one of > my cats. (Doing dental impressions now to find the culprit.) Replaced cable, all is well. Need to wrap my > cables in chain mail. > Had a similar problem when I used point-to-point wireless for my internet connectivity. A squirrel chewed through the network cable that provided power and data connectivity to the antenna on our roof. The little beggar was smart enough to only chew through the data lines and not the power lines so my ISP could still talk to the processor for the antenna. They eventually came out and replaced the line at which time I "painted" the cable with an oil based extreme hot sauce called "Gold Cap" (hated to "waste" the hot sauce). It worked though. Cheers, Dave -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
