On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Richard Shaw wrote: >> >> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:48 PM, gary artim <gartim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I just upgraded my wife's laptop to F10 from F9 using preupgrade. >>>> other than not having enough free space (had to make some) the install >>>> went perfectly. Now I'm having a lockup issue. >>>> >>>> When it first starts everything hard locks. Then I hear the DvD head >>>> moving, some time later I can turn the caps lock on and off but there >>>> is a significant delay. Also, the mouse cursor works but nothing else >>>> does. I can't do Ctl-Alt-Backspace or get to any of the virtual >>>> terminals. Scanning through /var/log/messages I don't see anything >>>> useful. Any ideas on where to start? This thing was rock solid under >>>> F9. >>>> >>>> Compaq laptop Turion 64 1.8GHz w/ Radeon 200M chipset. 1GB system ram. >>>> Broadcom wireless using native driver. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Richard >>>> >>>> -- >>>> fedora-list mailing list >>>> fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >>>> To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >>>> Guidelines: >>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines >>>> >>> you could try adding to the grub boot screen a trailing 3 to boot without >>> a graphics interface...then login as root and type 'yum update'. >>> That's if you can >>> get this far... -- Gary >> >> Actually I did end up trying something like that, so it is now fully >> updated... >> >> Here's a few conditions I've discovered: >> >> When I log in it seems I have 10-25 minutes before it locks. >> If I don't log (leave at login screen) in it does not lock up, but it >> locks up almost immediately when I do log in. >> It's seems to only be a GUI lock. I can SSH into the machine, however >> top doesn't show any process using 100% cpu. >> >> Any and all ideas are appreceated. This is actually the wife's laptop >> which I recently converted to linux. She was a happy F9 user but when >> my preupgrade upgrade went so well on my laptop I decided to upgrade >> her's as well. Needless to say she's less than thrilled right now. >> > You must be a newlywed to mess with your wife's *anything* until/unless you > are asked to do so. My wife is still on FC7, and she is happy with it. She > is behind two levels of firewall, and her (seamonkey) browser is fully > updated, and mail goes through my corporate filters, not some ISP. > > You might diddle the graphics settings on the boot line, video= and/or > xdriver= may help. Post video hardware and dmesg details here, hopefully > someone can offer useful hints. > > Good luck! > > -- > Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> Well so far today it has been working. BTW, is there a command line way to get network manager to connect to wireless? I went to console on boot up and was trying to get a connection without logging in (so it wouldn't lock up) but couldn't find a way. I ending up logging in and immediately going to a virtual terminal. It's a Radeon 200M video chipset, Plymouth looks great BTW. I was thinking of disabling selinux since I was getting AVC errors in the system tray, something about updatedb trying to access .gconf2. I did the restorecon -v thing it suggested but don't know if it's related to the lockup issue. Actually it just locked up when I was typing this message. Gmail saved the draft and I'm finishing it from my laptop. Something interesting to note. I used to fix most issues like this by doing a gdm-restart. Now under F10 I'm getting "Operation not supported". I did a gdm-safe-restart and then the lapop locked up fully (I lost my ssh session and couldn't log back in.). The requested dmesg output to follow. I've got it saved to a text file but have to get it off her computer or post it before it locks up. Thanks, Richard -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
