On 10/29/2009 02:23 PM, Mike Cloaked wrote: > > In my wife's case she reported that when hitting the enter key to login > under kdm the screen went black, and this was followed by a cursor at top > right and repeated lines containing text, with "nouveau_fifo_free:freeing > fifo 1" > > So this appears to have been a graphics issue concerning the nouveau driver > - however this evening I was able to boot this machine and am running on the > previous kernel for safety. (2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i686.PAE) in the above case, maybe her mistyped her password in one ocassion and when typed it correctly , the machine got the following bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506171 " If password entered incorrectly in KDM, next successful login causes X server shutdown and hang " maybe you can try to mistype your password and enter correctly with kernel 2.6.30.8-64 to discard kernel-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i686.PAE as the cause > The other machine is extinct - I cannot boot at all even to a liveCD so I > can't investigate it. However at the time that failed there were weird > graphics artifacts with multicoloured lines - and it is conceivable that it > could have also been a graphics issue - on boot it puts port00: after the > first message on the screen, and then some stuff on the screen (after the > post check complets) but no boot - I tried partedmagic DVD but it won't boot > at all. I suppose that the disc could have gone bad and over the weekend > will replace the drive and see if that allows a boot and re-install - but I > am out of ideas on that... however the nouveau failure on my wife's machine > worries me.... if you disconnect the hard drive, maybe you can boot from a livecd, to see if the motherboard and video card are fine. I don't know if the livecd include the memttest maybe the sata cable failed or the sata port where the disk is connected failed, if you have a sata port free you can connect the hard drive in it if using uuids in the partitions Gabriel -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
