On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:11:29 +0000 (GMT) geoff@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On restart after what appeared to be a normal hibernate (from disk) the system came up as normal, but it was evident that there were severe problems. The flashing-light daemon reported problems with coreutils. So I rebooted. System would not go to runlevel 5, but 3 was good. I discovered that abrtd was looping, using about 50% of the CPU. Pushing that aside and rebooting, serious complaints from selinux. Disabled that. On reboot discovered that gdm was failing; probably the root of the problem. No errors in X.0.log. > > Environment is Fedora 12, up-to-date as of today. I'm running the PAE kernel. Booted with the latest and 2 back. No change. > > OK, so there's nothing wrong with the display (Windoze here). Any suggestions, or am I stuck with reinstall? Start with rpm --verify --all > log and the log will tell you if any binaries and stuff like that are corrupted. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines