Re: FC4 system boot hangs

From: Eric Tanguy (eric.tanguy_at_univ-nantes.fr)
Date: 06/18/05

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    Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 10:33:29 +0200
    
    

    Le vendredi 17 juin 2005 à 18:56 +0200, Andy Pieters a écrit :
    > On Friday 17 June 2005 13:42, Eric Tanguy wrote:
    > > Sometimes (it seems to be randomly) the system hangs at boot up. Just
    > > before writing ok for the cups starting. I can't see anything
    > > in /var/log/messages.
    > > Someone would have an idea ?
    > Hi
    >
    > I have this also. The culprit on my system seems to be the GPM (Console Mouse
    > Services).
    >
    > I loged on in runlevel 1 (append single to your kernel command), and tried to
    > start that service. It hangs while starting. When I aborted, and then
    > checked with ps, it show that the process is loaded... So my guess is this is
    > something in the configuration file.
    >
    > Anyway, my fix was to chkconfig level 123456 gpm off, then exit and the system
    > boots up normally.
    >
    > Hope this helps
    >
    >
    I tried this without any success. I think this is a service which
    sometimes hangs at boot but i can't find which one.

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