Mike Cloaked wrote: > > > For your first comment about the response of the system to a mistyped > password in kdm I was not aware of - I'll ask if this it was a second > login attempt when I talk to her later - and yes i do have kdm as the > login manager. The status of the bz you referred to linked to an upstream > bug which has not had any reply since the end of August! > > On the suggestions for trying to boot a livecd - I did try and after the > POST, it gave "port 00:" at the top of the screen and a line of "stuff" - > but did nothing further. I now have a new replacement HD which I will > install over the weekend and see if I can then boot a liveCD to configure > it - I'll report back in due course. > > This evening I removed the HD and installed the brand new hard drive. The machine now readily booted to a PartedMagic LiveCD and I was able to partition the drive to prepare for an f11 clean install which I have now just completed. So in this case it turned out to be a total failure of the hard drive - the machine is less than 2 years old, so a drive failure at this age is surprising, the more so considering it has always been on a UPS to protect the mains supplying it. The new HD is a different make to the original, and hopefully will last a little longer than the previous one! Anyway I am very glad that this turned out to be unrelated to the operating system, although I am still trying to get to the bottom of what happened to the other machine - which was clearly a software issue. Have a good weekend. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/two-major-failures-after-yesterday-updates---anyone-else-tp26109441p26136595.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
