Tim:
You could also try just doing a telinit 3 or 1 in there, instead of poweroff, if you want to see whether quitting the GUI without going as far as shutting down shows up where a problemm is.
Gerhard Magnus
This is a neat diagnostic tool! When I do a teleinit 3 the first message is: PuteA login: FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq (/lib/modules/2.6.14-1.1656_FC4/kernel/aaarch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko): No such device
From what I understand, this is nothing to worry about. It's trying to
do something that it's not able to, and doesn't *have* to, and fails in the attempt.
Then I get normal-looking service start-up lines (with an OK at the end of each) for pcmcia, irqbalance, lmsensors, and anacron. Then the system hangs.
Usually, the last thing you see is what you want to test out. Though I doubt anacron is the problem, you could try individually starting and stopping it. But a hang (or very long wait) at that point, or to do with starting X could indicate a name resolution issue.
Again, my specific problem occurs in logging off from KDE using the GUI. The system hangs before the login screen comes up.
I fixed this by loading the second most recent kernel (2.6.11.1.1369_FC4) instead of the most recent kernel (2.6.14-1.1656_FC4) from the Grub menu. A lucky guess -- does anyone have any idea as to why this worked? For example, what does the difference between "1369_FC4" and "1656_FC4" mean in the name of a kernel?
I can only say to read the release notes for it. I don't know the specific differences between them. I can say that I don't have problems using Gnome with them. I don't have KDE on my system. You could try seeing whether you get a hang if you were using Gnome instead of KDE (or any other-than-KDE window manager), as a quick test.