ctl-alt-f8 and login as root to investigate? On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Brian Johnson <voyager....@gmail.com>wrote:
> Happy Tuesday all, > > So, an interesting thing happened to me when I came into work this > morning....my computer was sitting at the password prompt to unencrypt my > disk so I could continue booting my machine. Apparently we had a power > outage at work last night. > > So, I put in my encrcyption password and continued to watch it boot up. It > went, and went, and went and right when I thought it was going to give me > my login prompt, it...stopped. My mouse cursur is just a spinning ball of > wait. I'm never given the opportunity to log in, it's just a black screen > with my spinning cursor. > > I've tried each of the different kernels on my computer, all PAE -- > 3.4.0-1, 3.4.4-3, and 3.4.4-5, and nothing seems to change. > > However, I was just able to boot into runlevel 3, log in as myself, and > run 'startx' and get in that way. When I do it, though, it runs *very* > sluggish. Gnome-shell, with nothing but an xterm, is running ~65% cpu and > my load average is running at 2.16. > > I can't find anything that might have been updated that would explain the > issue. I have 3 machines all running Fedora 17, one of which I know is > completely up to date as my work computer is, and I don't see the issue on > it (had a power outage at the house this morning, so I had to reboot the > one at home as well). > > Any thoughts greatly appreciated, thanks! > > Brian > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > >
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