Bugzilla from gabriello.ramirez@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > 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 > > 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. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/two-major-failures-after-yesterday-updates---anyone-else-tp26109441p26129537.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
