On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 21:25 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> On Mon, 26 May 2008 13:36:37 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> [...]
> >> Vesa driver? I've seen the word during boot-ups on at least one
> >> machine; but since it means nothing to me, I don't even recall which
> >> machine. I'll be glad to try that or anything else I can; how do I do
> >> it?
> >
> > I believe you can do this:
> >
> > When you see the GRUB splash screen on boot, press a key.
>
> Did that -- and nothing happened.
>
> The machine was still where it had been, saying it had started
> the network manager. I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, and it went down as far as
> sending the TERM signal -- and then sat there, without doing anything I
> could see, but with the machine's light still on.
>
> I hit the reset button. It went as far as the grub menu, and I
> hit a key. That left it with its F9 line highlighted. I hit e -- and
> nothing happened. In fact, it didn't respond to anything on the keyboard
> -- the first time I've ever seen grub do that.
>
> I hit the reset button again, and this time it let me tell it to
> edit both times. Then it froze again.
>
> > Select
> > the top kernel line of the options offered and type 'e', select
> > the kernel line and type 'e'. Append 'video=vesa' at the end of
> > the line. Type [Enter], type 'b'.
>
> I hit the reset button yet again, and did all the above hastily
> (but, I hope and believe, accurately) -- getting it all in ahead of
> another freeze.
>
> > Then X should detect your video card as vesa, which is the most generic
> > sort of interface.
>
> It booted, but only into another login line, white on black; I
> logged in -- and it gave me my prompt, along with a line saying "Can't
> open display."
>
> > If the machine boots, you can boot in runlevel 3 (edit the kernel line
> > in GRUB as above, but instead of "video=vesa" add "3". Then you'll get
> > a virtual console to log into. Then (as root) run
> >
> > system-config-display --reconfig
> >
> > and see if that helps.
>
> It tried some sort of traceback, said something cryptic about
> /usr/share/system-config-display/xconf.py, and (apparently) tried to
> import something from somewhere. Then it said
>
> ImportError: No module named ibmasm
>
> and gave me my root prompt back.
>
> Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the scp -r that I was running quit
> with the message
>
> scp: error: unexpected filename: ..
> lost connection
>
> So there must be some stuff I didn't get; I don't know what, but
> I got vast amounts -- enough to run my df up, despite deleting hand over
> fist, from its original 50% to 78%. (Baobab, which sees only a 35.2 GB
> drive, makes it 72.8%. I'm pretty sure this machine has a nominal 40 GB
> drive; I thought the #1 machine had two -- 40 GB for Fedora and 40 GB for
> XP, just because the one thing I do on it is GPS-compatible topo maps,
> which are apt to be graphic-intensive and to grow hugely -- but it may be
> 80 and 80.)
>
> The actual numbers on machine #2 are
>
> [btth@hbsk ~]$ df
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
> 36693560 26814088 7985484 78% /
> /dev/sda1 194442 18754 165649 11% /boot
> tmpfs 501108 48 501060 1% /dev/shm
>
>
> The corresponding top line numbers from df on #1 are
> 73545144 30178956 39570016
>
> Since I haven't even tried to salvage anything from anywhere but
> my user's home directory, it looks to me like I have very nearly all of
> it. (I don't keep financial or otherwise critical files on any computer.)
>
> Bottom line: I'll gladly keep this up so long as you, Patrick
> O'Callaghan in the X thread, or any other clearly knowledgeable person
> here thinks it worth while. Hey, we might uncover the anaconda bug! But
> if the worse comes to the worst, I'm confident I can now live with the
> results of wiping the hard drive and re-installing F8 from scratch.
As in your other thread, I'm inclined to suggest going ahead and doing
that.
I don't actually have a Fedora9 machine handy to make sure every step
works exactly the way I suggested. Enough X stuff has changed from F8
to F9 that I don't know if I'm a reliable source of advice (if the above
didn't help) until I can get an F9 machine up to try.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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