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Thursday evening we had a power failure and I shutdown all the
computers to get the load off my UPS's. I have booted the Fedora 28
computer this morning and a what was a non-problem has blossomed
into a real one. The other three all booted normally when I started
things after the power came back on, however I did not try the F28
until this morning.
Since the F28 install a window has always come after the xfce
desktop opens:
"Oops, We're sorry, it looks like boot_image-/
vmlinuz-4.17.18.200.fc28.x86_64 crashed. Please contact the
developer ..."
I ignored it until now since it seemed to be meaningless, the system
connected to the LAN and the internet and went happily on its way.
Not so today, the cursor arrow sits in the error message box and
can't be moved and the Only thing that works is ctrl-alt-F1 which
brings back the user boot screen asking for a password, normally
bobg, but I tried alternate as well as root, which brings up Gnome,
also frozen in some strange fashion, I never use that so did not
investigate much there, a presentation hard for me t read. Along
with the Oops window is another that ells me I am connected to
enp2so or whatever.
Tried the two alternative kernels, no difference.
I can ssh from this computer which allows me to reboot it
conveniently
[bobg@Box10 ~]$ ssh -X bobg@192.168.1.83
bobg@192.168.1.83's password:
Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11
forwarding.
Last login: Sat Sep 15 13:51:55 2018
[bobg@box83 ~]$ su
Password:
[root@box83 bobg]# reboot
I tried "startxfce4" via ssh from this computer after a fresh start,
the xfce splash screen comes up but that crashes with a lot of
errors and I'm not even certain that approach should work.
So I am stuck and need some help troubleshooting.
Bob
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Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
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