On Tuesday 23 March 2010 15:17, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 March 2010 13:52, Anne Wilson wrote:
>> Since I ended up with a large number of zombie processes for
>> chromium-browser I decided to shut down the laptop completely, to get a
>> clean, cold boot. There I came unstuck. This is F12, fully updated.
>> The bubble fills up, I see the Fedora logo, then it reboots. I could
>> try to catch it and get a level 3 login, of course, but since I haven't
>> a clue what's causing this, I wouldn't know what to do next. Any
ideas?
>
> Argh! I can't even get an level 3 boot. I snatched it and edited the
> grub
> entry, but still it reboots. I came to the conclusion that grub must be
> damaged, so I ran grub-install, but on reboot, still the same thing
> happens -
> it looks fine up to the Fedora logo, then reboots. I'm completely stuck.
Utterly absurd for me to suggest something to you -
like telling my grand-daughter how to improve her Irish dancing -
but if it were me I would run something like Knoppix,
and see what was in /var/log/messages , etc.
Actually, the last time this happened to me
my / partition was full.
Well, unless something like a core-dump has filled it, that shouldn't be the
problem, but I'm beginning to think that I have to get my data off, so you
are probably right about reaching for knoppix :-)
Anne