On 9/16/18 2:57 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
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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 get that sort of message occasional. Running KDE Desktop on F28. Pretty much
harmless.
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.
Which kernels did you try? Both kernel-4.18.5 and kernel-4.18.7 affect certain
mice. The cursor won't move, but the buttons work.
I can ssh from this computer which allows me to reboot it conveniently
[bobg@Box10 ~]$ ssh -X bobg(a)192.168.1.83
bobg(a)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.
You are booting your system into a non-GUI environment and then trying to start
xfce. Well, that works (after generating tons of messages) with KDE. But don't know
how well that would work with xfce.
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