Oisin Feeley wrote:
Hi all, The i686 FedoraDesktop LiveCD appears to fail somewhere after NetworkManagerDispatcher is started. The exact symptoms are that the screen flickers, goes blank and the CD drive continues to spin for minutes and then becomes inactive. Keyboard or touchpad input results in the CD drive spinning up again but the screen remaining blank. Attempts to see what's going on by switching to some other console via Alt-Ctl-Fx appear to be ignored. Attempts to selectively disable services (with the object of disabling NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatcher) are a problem because the reading of the options appears to ignored. The prompt "<service name> (C)ontinue/(Y)es/(N)o" (or something of that form) appears, but it's necessary to enter at least two carriage-returns with the option, a bit of what appears to be Python code for reading the option and starting the services is printed and then the service is (possibly) started anyway.
Do these messages look like something is wrong with your keyboard input? Do you have a typical US layout keyboard or something else? That sounds very much like garbage is getting sent to the script rather than understandable bytes, and its going 'oh crap' when it cannot find a Y or N.
So, any ideas as to how I can get a bit further with testing the pre-release? Or capturing better info for reporting whatever is going wrong to bugzilla?
You can boot the machine to runlevel 1 or 3 by editing the syslinux boot menu before it starts the automatic boot. That should let you disable NetworkManager or NetworkManagerDispatcher to see if those are the culprits. You can also adjust/edit X configuration from there if necessary before starting gdm to login (in runlevel 5).
Push TAB while looking at the boot menu, then add a '1' or '3' at the end of the kernel parameters and push enter. You can do anything from those runlevels that a typical installed machine would allow you to do, mounting a flash drive to copy off debug logs for instance.
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