Description of problem: System freezes about 4 times in 5 after entering boot password, showing the spinning-wheel cursor. Mouse doesn't track. Have to reboot. Don't see anything useful in the log. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 18, freshly installed. kernel 3.9.4-200.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP How reproducible: Happens almost every time. Retrying may hang again or succeed. Editing grub commandline before booting doesn't help consistently. Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot system 2. enter return to select user 3. give password Actual results: system hangs Expected results: gnome desktop should show. Additional info: tried adding nomodeset on the grub linux command line. login succeeded but graphics flashed and jiggled to the point of unusability. removed rhgb from grub linux command line, system boots OK. This is an Acer machine with a GeForce 7100 video card. lspci says VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C73 [GeForce 7100 / nForce 630i]
Oops, I take it back, removing rhgb is not enough to make the system book OK. Sometimes it hangs, sometimes it doesn't. Last line displayed before the freeze is "started account service"
Froze on boot again. This time the last 5 lines are [ OK ] Started Accounts Service [ 20.760350 ] iscsi: registered transport (be2iscsi) [ 20.760603 ] In beiscsi_module_init, tt-ffffffffa04a7000 [ OK ] Started GNOME Display Manager. [ OK ] Started NTP client/server. Tried again. Froze. This time the last few lines are [ OK ] Started Login Service. [ OK ] Started NTP client/server. [ OK ] Started GNOME Display Manager. [ OK ] Started RealtimeKit Scheduling Policy Service. Starting Authorization Manager... [ OK ] Started Authorization Manager. [ OK ] Started Accounts Service. [ OK ] Started LSB: Starts and stops login iSCSI daemon.. Worked the third time.
I got my system to boot yesterday after 3 tries and got the alert that there were updates, some of which changed XOrg stuff. Oboy, I thought, maybe it will change my problem. Sure did. I have tried to boot 8 times and it froze each time. The last few times the last visible message is "Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized" My system is completely unusable. Is there anything I can do to debug this problem or to bypass the hang?
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