On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Armelius Cameron wrote:
> Hello,
> My F16 system seems to have gotten to a very strange state.
>
> This is where the strangeness started. I was able to boot it back, but
> then it
> keeps rebooting after the boot process is done. It would get to the state
> where I
On Sunday, May 20, 2012 11:12:53 AM stan wrote:
> On Sun, 20 May 2012 09:38:24 -0400
>
> Armelius Cameron wrote:
> > The only "mode" that didn't cause reboot is "emergency" (i.e. changed
> > "single" to "emergency" as kernel argument in grub, which as Fedora
> > doc stated doesn't load any init."
On Monday, May 21, 2012 03:17:54 AM Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-05-20 at 13:00 -0400, Armelius Cameron wrote:
> > In my case it finished booting completely. I could even log in if I
> > type fast enough. Then within a few seconds, it reboots.
>
> I suppose I should ask the obvious question: Does it
On Sun, 20 May 2012 09:38:24 -0400
Armelius Cameron wrote:
> The only "mode" that didn't cause reboot is "emergency" (i.e. changed
> "single" to "emergency" as kernel argument in grub, which as Fedora
> doc stated doesn't load any init."
This is a long shot. But given the above, why then don't
On Sun, 2012-05-20 at 13:00 -0400, Armelius Cameron wrote:
> In my case it finished booting completely. I could even log in if I
> type fast enough. Then within a few seconds, it reboots.
I suppose I should ask the obvious question: Does it actually "reboot,"
or does it crash?
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On Sunday, May 20, 2012 05:01:35 PM Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On 20.05.2012, Armelius Cameron wrote:
> > When you saw this, did it
> > reboot after finish booting (i.e. get to KDM / GDM ) or was it just at the
> > grub menu ?
>
> It started to boot, but never got into X, it rebooted somewhere in
> betw
On 20.05.2012, Armelius Cameron wrote:
> When you saw this, did it
> reboot after finish booting (i.e. get to KDM / GDM ) or was it just at the
> grub
> menu ?
It started to boot, but never got into X, it rebooted somewhere in
between. Nothing worked, and after a few days, just before trying
On Sunday, May 20, 2012 11:13:39 AM Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On 20.05.2012, Armelius Cameron wrote:
> > This is about the strangest thing I've seen since I've used linux (started
> > in Redhat 5... )
>
> Did you try to load the BIOS defaults? As mentioned above, I saw the
> same thing before, and this
On Sunday, May 20, 2012 12:45:01 PM Alan Cox wrote:
> > Is it not possible that anything in the software somehow is causing this ?
>
> It is certainly possible, however the only thing that ought to be capable
> of causing an accidental reboot is the kernel (hence the 'try old kernel'
> comment) or
> Is it not possible that anything in the software somehow is causing this ?
It is certainly possible, however the only thing that ought to be capable
of causing an accidental reboot is the kernel (hence the 'try old kernel'
comment) or maybe the X server
[try booting "norhgb 3"]
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On 20.05.2012, Armelius Cameron wrote:
> This is about the strangest thing I've seen since I've used linux (started in
> Redhat 5... )
Did you try to load the BIOS defaults? As mentioned above, I saw the
same thing before, and this was the solution. Don't ask me why, it's
totally irrational, bu
On Saturday, May 19, 2012 08:42:07 PM Mark C. Allman wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-05-19 at 10:55 -0400, Armelius Cameron wrote:
> > On Saturday, May 19, 2012 10:00:44 am Pedro Francisco wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Armelius Cameron
> >
> > wrote:
> > > > (...)
> > > > I tried running li
On Sat, 2012-05-19 at 10:55 -0400, Armelius Cameron wrote:
> On Saturday, May 19, 2012 10:00:44 am Pedro Francisco wrote:
> > On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Armelius Cameron
> wrote:
> > > (...)
> > > I tried running linux rescue with F16 boot disk, chroot to the
> > > installation root, update
On Saturday, May 19, 2012 10:00:44 am Pedro Francisco wrote:
> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Armelius Cameron
wrote:
> > (...)
> > I tried running linux rescue with F16 boot disk, chroot to the
> > installation root, updated the system, and reboot. And this continuous
> > rebooting happens aga
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Armelius Cameron wrote:
> (...)
> I tried running linux rescue with F16 boot disk, chroot to the installation
> root, updated the system, and reboot. And this continuous rebooting happens
> again.
Is Yum working properly? No complaining of bad database state? I wa
On Saturday, May 19, 2012 08:07:20 am Alan Cox wrote:
> > This is where the strangeness started. I was able to boot it back, but
> > then it keeps rebooting after the boot process is done.
>
> First thing I would do is boot the live CD image<...>
>
> Also see how stable the box i running the live
> This is where the strangeness started. I was able to boot it back, but then
> it
> keeps rebooting after the boot process is done. It would get to the state
> where I need to log in, and within several second, it would reboot itself.
> This happens over and over.
First thing I would do is bo
On 19.05.2012, Armelius Cameron wrote:
> I am running out of ideas. The only thing left is to completely re-install,
> and I don't really want to do that right now as I have lots of stuff there
> already. So, any help would be greatly appreciated.
A shot in the dark, because this solved a simi
Hello,
My F16 system seems to have gotten to a very strange state. It's a Dell
laptop. It started when I have the laptop unplugged, and I closed the lid.
Usually this makes it goes to sleep (i.e. suspend to RAM). This time, it
didn't seem so; the fan started to run in high speed, and after a whi
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