On Tuesday 23 March 2010 15:18, Martin Kho 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.
Hi,
Was udev updated? Bruno Wolf III had some sort of the same issue in fc13
[1]. Reverting udev solved it.
Reading on through that thread, the symptoms are identical - and the error
message about iTCO_wdt is also identical.
OK - in the rescue system, udev is downgraded - the process finished
with 'unable to connect to dbus' - I don't know whether that's to be
expected. Now to reboot.
Bingo! The latest udev in F12 is poisoned, too!
Anne