Re: F10 hard lock issue

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:48 PM, gary artim <gartim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I just upgraded my wife's laptop to F10 from F9 using preupgrade.
other than not having enough free space (had to make some) the install
went perfectly. Now I'm having a lockup issue.

When it first starts everything hard locks. Then I hear the DvD head
moving, some time later I can turn the caps lock on and off but there
is a significant delay. Also, the mouse cursor works but nothing else
does. I can't do Ctl-Alt-Backspace or get to any of the virtual
terminals. Scanning through /var/log/messages I don't see anything
useful. Any ideas on where to start? This thing was rock solid under
F9.

Compaq laptop Turion 64 1.8GHz w/ Radeon 200M chipset. 1GB system ram.
Broadcom wireless using native driver.

Thanks,
Richard

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you could try adding to the grub boot screen a trailing 3 to boot without
a graphics interface...then login as root and type 'yum update'.
That's if you can
get this far... -- Gary

Actually I did end up trying something like that, so it is now fully updated...

Here's a few conditions I've discovered:

When I log in it seems I have 10-25 minutes before it locks.
If I don't log (leave at login screen) in it does not lock up, but it
locks up almost immediately when I do log in.
It's seems to only be a GUI lock. I can SSH into the machine, however
top doesn't show any process using 100% cpu.

Any and all ideas are appreceated. This is actually the wife's laptop
which I recently converted to linux. She was a happy F9 user but when
my preupgrade upgrade went so well on my laptop I decided to upgrade
her's as well. Needless to say she's less than thrilled right now.

Thanks,
Richard

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