Bugzilla from gabriello.ramirez(a)gmail.com wrote:
in the above case, maybe her mistyped her password in one ocassion and
when typed it correctly , the machine got the following bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506171 " If password
entered incorrectly in KDM, next successful login causes X server
shutdown and hang "
maybe you can try to mistype your password and enter correctly with
kernel 2.6.30.8-64 to discard kernel-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i686.PAE as the
cause
> The other machine is extinct - I cannot boot at all even to a liveCD so I
> can't investigate it. However at the time that failed there were weird
> graphics artifacts with multicoloured lines - and it is conceivable that
> it
> could have also been a graphics issue - on boot it puts port00: after the
> first message on the screen, and then some stuff on the screen (after the
> post check complets) but no boot - I tried partedmagic DVD but it won't
> boot
> at all. I suppose that the disc could have gone bad and over the weekend
> will replace the drive and see if that allows a boot and re-install - but
> I
> am out of ideas on that... however the nouveau failure on my wife's
> machine
> worries me....
if you disconnect the hard drive, maybe you can boot from a livecd, to
see if the motherboard and video card are fine. I don't know if the
livecd include the memttest
maybe the sata cable failed or the sata port where the disk is connected
failed, if you have a sata port free you can connect the hard drive in
it if using uuids in the partitions
For your first comment about the response of the system to a mistyped
password in kdm I was not aware of - I'll ask if this it was a second login
attempt when I talk to her later - and yes i do have kdm as the login
manager. The status of the bz you referred to linked to an upstream bug
which has not had any reply since the end of August!
On the suggestions for trying to boot a livecd - I did try and after the
POST, it gave "port 00:" at the top of the screen and a line of
"stuff" -
but did nothing further. I now have a new replacement HD which I will
install over the weekend and see if I can then boot a liveCD to configure it
- I'll report back in due course.
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