[mythtv-users] 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 lock up?

[Scott Francis]

Another thing to try (not sure if this will work and not freeze for
you), is have grub boot you in single user mode.  If this comes up you
can try init 5 and watch the log files.


Scott

On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 15:03, Larry Silverman wrote:
> Hmm, tried this, it still locked, same as before.  It says:
> Starting udev:
> Initializing hardware    storage  network  audio <FREEZE>
> 
> Thanks anyway,
> Larry
> 
> 
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:57:16 -0600, Scott Francis
> <scott.francis at newisys.com> wrote:
> > Could be a video issue.  I've found on FC3 that if the video stuff isn't
> > set up properly it can hang at boot time when it's tries to move into
> > the pretty graphical startup mode.  Easiest way to "fix" this is to
> > remove the rhgb entry in your grub.conf file.  This will make it text
> > based while bringing things up.  X will try to start for the login
> > screen, but it won't lock the system up during the boot.
> > 
> > An example in grub would be like:
> > 
> > title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.678_FC3)
> >         root (hd0,1)
> >         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.678_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ quiet
> >         initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.678_FC3.img
> > 
> > Hope that helps.
> > 
> > Scott Francis
> > 
> > On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 13:43, Larry Silverman wrote:
> > > Hi, all,
> > >
> > > If this isn't the right place for this, please point me to it.
> > >
> > > I have a working FC3 681 system, and thought I'd try upgrading to the
> > > latest kernel, 741, using apt-get/rpms.
> > >
> > > 741 freezes on my machine very early in the boot process.  It happens
> > > on the line where it says something like "network   storage   audio
> > > <FREEZE>"
> > > Sorry I don't have the exact text, I'm not in front of the machine at
> > > this time.  But audio is the third and last of three subsystems on
> > > that line, that I do know.
> > >
> > > Just hangs there after audio.  I even tried swapping out the sound
> > > card, still just hangs there.
> > >
> > > Rolled back to 681, no worries, but just disappointed.  Seems like a
> > > strange place to hang, and I can't find anything in any logs in
> > > /var/log about why it might be freezing.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Larry
> > > 
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