Re: New boot failure

2010-04-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Craig White wrote: >On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 19:42 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >A little hint: use yum localinstall (without --), and optional with >> >--nogpgcheck for unsigned packages. It resolves dependecies >> >automatically. >> >> In that event, the friggin help scr

Re: New boot failure

2010-04-28 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 19:42 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >A little hint: use yum localinstall (without --), and optional with > >--nogpgcheck for unsigned packages. It resolves dependecies > >automatically. > > > In that event, the friggin help screen is worthless. Sigh. none are so blind as

Re: New boot failure

2010-04-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 09:43:36 -0400, > > Gene Heskett wrote: >> I'm assuming the usual trick of booting to level 3 will work? Ahh, no, >> the boot delay is zero, so there is no chance to edit grub. Or is there >> a magic vulcan nerve pinch

Re: New boot failure

2010-04-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Mario Guenterberg wrote: >On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:09:39AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >> >Gene Heskett writes: >> >> My shiney new F13-beta 64 bit install on my HP dv5120u laptop is now >> >> failing, losing

Re: New boot failure

2010-04-28 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 09:43:36 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I'm assuming the usual trick of booting to level 3 will work? Ahh, no, the > boot delay is zero, so there is no chance to edit grub. Or is there a magic > vulcan nerve pinch for that? I think even with boot delay set to 0 th

Re: New boot failure

2010-04-28 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Gene Heskett writes: > yum --localinstall? yum has no such option there, used rpm -Uvh *.rpm after > wgetting the files. Oops. That's what I get for typing from (non-ecc) memory. As others figured out I meant "yum localinstall *.rpm" >> http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/xorg-x11-se

Re: New boot failure

2010-04-28 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Gene Heskett writes: > On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >>Gene Heskett writes: >>> My shiney new F13-beta 64 bit install on my HP dv5120u laptop is now >>> failing, losing all response to a plugged in mouse, the touch pad and >>> keyboard at about the time it draws the bo

Re: New boot failure

2010-04-28 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wednesday 28 April 2010 07:09 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >> Gene Heskett writes: >>> My shiney new F13-beta 64 bit install on my HP dv5120u laptop is now >>> failing, losing all response to a plugged in mouse, the touch pad and >>> keyboar

Re: New boot failure

2010-04-28 Thread Mario Guenterberg
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:09:39AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > >Gene Heskett writes: > >> My shiney new F13-beta 64 bit install on my HP dv5120u laptop is now > >> failing, losing all response to a plugged in mouse, the touch pad and > >>

Re: New boot failure

2010-04-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Rich Bishop wrote: >Assuming your running into the same problem as I am, the display doesn't > lock up until you log in. So you can boot to runlevel 5 and hit > CTRL-ALT-F2 and open up a root shell in that VT. > >(I'm sure there is a way into grub too, but my machine is

Re: New boot failure

2010-04-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Gene Heskett wrote: >On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >>Gene Heskett writes: >>> My shiney new F13-beta 64 bit install on my HP dv5120u laptop is now >>> failing, losing all response to a plugged in mouse, the touch pad and >>> keyboard at about

Re: New boot failure

2010-04-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >Gene Heskett writes: >> My shiney new F13-beta 64 bit install on my HP dv5120u laptop is now >> failing, losing all response to a plugged in mouse, the touch pad and >> keyboard at about the time it draws the bottom bar on the screen, showi

Re: New boot failure

2010-04-28 Thread Rich Bishop
Assuming your running into the same problem as I am, the display doesn't lock up until you log in. So you can boot to runlevel 5 and hit CTRL-ALT-F2 and open up a root shell in that VT. (I'm sure there is a way into grub too, but my machine is currently booted). Rich -- users mailing list users@

Re: New boot failure

2010-04-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >Gene Heskett writes: >> My shiney new F13-beta 64 bit install on my HP dv5120u laptop is now >> failing, losing all response to a plugged in mouse, the touch pad and >> keyboard at about the time it draws the bottom bar on the screen, showi

Re: New boot failure

2010-04-28 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Gene Heskett writes: > My shiney new F13-beta 64 bit install on my HP dv5120u laptop is now failing, > losing all response to a plugged in mouse, the touch pad and keyboard at > about the time it draws the bottom bar on the screen, showing only the 4 > workspace icons and the trash can. No ot

Re: New boot failure

2010-04-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/28/2010 10:00 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 27 April 2010, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 04/28/2010 09:15 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >>> Greetings all; >>> >>> My shiney new F13-beta 64 bit install on my HP dv5120u laptop is now >>> failing, losing all response to a plugged in mous

Re: New boot failure

2010-04-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 27 April 2010, Ed Greshko wrote: >On 04/28/2010 09:15 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings all; >> >> My shiney new F13-beta 64 bit install on my HP dv5120u laptop is now >> failing, losing all response to a plugged in mouse, the touch pad and >> keyboard at about the time it draws the b

Re: New boot failure

2010-04-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/28/2010 09:15 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > My shiney new F13-beta 64 bit install on my HP dv5120u laptop is now failing, > losing all response to a plugged in mouse, the touch pad and keyboard at > about the time it draws the bottom bar on the screen, showing only the 4 > w

New boot failure

2010-04-27 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; My shiney new F13-beta 64 bit install on my HP dv5120u laptop is now failing, losing all response to a plugged in mouse, the touch pad and keyboard at about the time it draws the bottom bar on the screen, showing only the 4 workspace icons and the trash can. No other buttons or