Re: Fedora 9 Freeze At Login

Kyle Lanigan <k.a.lanigan@xxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:21:44 -0600

On 2-Sep-08, at 8:55 AM, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:

On 9/2/08, Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Kyle Lanigan wrote:

Have you tried logging in in text mode?

...

Earlier you might have been able to enter text mode by Ctrl-Alt-F1,

or alternatively by using something like Knoppix to edit /etc/ 

inittab

and change id:5 to id:3 .

The Live CD works amazingly fine on my computer.

If possible, could you give an in-depth instruction on what to do  

with

the ID:5 change to ID:3?

Firstly, I'm no Fedora guru, and the other Tim is much more likely  

than me

to have the correct diagnosis.

It is just that if the system freezes in this sort of way,

my first step would be to eliminate problems with X by running in  

text-mode.

One way to do this is to edit /etc/inittab, and change the line
id:5:initdefault:
to
id:3:initdefault:

This line in inittab determines which mode linux boots into.

I had to do exactly that cause after install, when I tried to log in,
my system froze. In my case there is something wrong trying to boot
into X mode directly. If I boot in runlevel 3 and then startx, I have
no problems.
However, if I kill the X server (or normal logout) and then try to
start it up again with startx, the system hangs up again (can't kill X
server, the kernel doesn't seem to catch the ACPI events when I push
the switch off button...)

Kyle, do you see any unexpected image after typing your name and
password, some bizarre screen or is it just a clear frozen image of
your desktop?

Yea, it's just a clear image the desktop background while mouse,  

keyboard and everything else just sits frozen there.

I'm gonna give a go to some of the other suggestions to see if that  

lets Fedora run.

The trouble is, if the system is not working it is not clear
how you can edit this file.
My suggestion was to use Knoppix.
(But the Fedora Live CD can probably be used in the same way.)
Knoppix allows you to mount your Fedora partitions
while Linux is running on the CD.
This lets you edit files in your Fedora setup.

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Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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        Kyle Lanigan

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