On 9/16/18 2:57 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > . > > Thursday evening we had a power failure and I shutdown all the computers to get the > load off my UPS's. I have booted the Fedora 28 computer this morning and a what was > a non-problem has blossomed into a real one. The other three all booted normally > when I started things after the power came back on, however I did not try the F28 > until this morning. > > Since the F28 install a window has always come after the xfce desktop opens: > > "Oops, We're sorry, it looks like boot_image-/ vmlinuz-4.17.18.200.fc28.x86_64 > crashed. Please contact the developer ..." I get that sort of message occasional. Running KDE Desktop on F28. Pretty much harmless. > > I ignored it until now since it seemed to be meaningless, the system connected to > the LAN and the internet and went happily on its way. Not so today, the cursor > arrow sits in the error message box and can't be moved and the Only thing that > works is ctrl-alt-F1 which brings back the user boot screen asking for a password, > normally bobg, but I tried alternate as well as root, which brings up Gnome, also > frozen in some strange fashion, I never use that so did not investigate much there, > a presentation hard for me t read. Along with the Oops window is another that ells > me I am connected to enp2so or whatever. > > Tried the two alternative kernels, no difference. Which kernels did you try? Both kernel-4.18.5 and kernel-4.18.7 affect certain mice. The cursor won't move, but the buttons work. > > I can ssh from this computer which allows me to reboot it conveniently > > [bobg@Box10 ~]$ ssh -X bobg@192.168.1.83 > bobg@192.168.1.83's password: > Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. > Last login: Sat Sep 15 13:51:55 2018 > > [bobg@box83 ~]$ su > Password: > [root@box83 bobg]# reboot > > I tried "startxfce4" via ssh from this computer after a fresh start, the xfce > splash screen comes up but that crashes with a lot of errors and I'm not even > certain that approach should work. > You are booting your system into a non-GUI environment and then trying to start xfce. Well, that works (after generating tons of messages) with KDE. But don't know how well that would work with xfce. -- Cardinal Rule of Presentations: "Tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them, then tell them what you told them."
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