eeepc-1000ha freezes during boot after update

[jonathonp]

Eeepc is freezing on boot. It happens just before the login screen. I seem to be locked out. The boot menu is not showing either so i have not been able to try the older kernel. Any suggestions?

Edit: I pressed f8 and the boot menu appeared. I have just successfully logged in.

[smr54]

Aha--this may relate, since it's on the same type of machine, to an issue that I've seen (but only in Rawhide.)

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=243635

If possible, would you try the following?

Boot from a live or rescue CD (I assume if you have the 1000ha, you have a USB or external optical drive).

Using said live or rescue CD, edit /etc/grub.conf

Change the root=<long UUID number> to /dev/sdaX, where X is where the root partition lives, e.g., root=/dev/sda5. (This is in the long kernel line).

See if that fixes it. If so, please post. If it doesn't, then to boot to the older kernel, you can change the default=0 to default=1 (assuming the old kernel is the second entry). (Fixing it by using the live or rescue CD.)

The first suggestion is really rather selfish, as it's an experiment, and may have no effect. Still, I have seen this happen from time to time (and as mentioned in the linked thread, the last time with F14, so it may only be a rawhide thing).
The reason I make the rather selfish request is because, so far, I've only had it happen on Asus machines, and not with others.

The other typical culprit is the NVidia driver, but assuming the 1000ha is the same as the 1000he, that shouldn't be an issue.

The short answer, though is use a live CD or rescue CD, either from external drive or USB, to boot and fix it that way. (You might also try changing the default time out in grub.conf, from 0 to 3 or so.)

If you don't feel like making the experiment, that's fine, but I'd appreciate it if you did.

[jonathonp]

Hi smr. I had a look at grub.conf and the Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) matched the root partition as seen with kernel 2.6.33-0.52.rc8.git6.f13.i686. I tried changing the UUID to /dev/sda2 but it still froze. Thanks for u help.

[BugRocks1]

Look at the log from messages and see if there is some clue to what is happening:

su -
tail -n 50 /var/log/messages

And if you want more eyeballs to help you look post the result here

[smr54]

Thanks for trying. In the cases where this has fixed it for me, the UUID didn't change, simply Fedora's ability to boot from it.


Since you edited that, were you able to get to the old kernel to have it boot by changing the default?
Oh--another thing worth doing is to remove the rhgb quiet from the end of the kernel line--that way, you can see messages and possibly get an idea where the trouble lies. (Another thing I like to do is add the word nomodeset to the end of the kernel line--there's a brief interval where it changes to framebuffer mode, and I'm never sure if I'm missing something there.)

[jonathonp]

I was able to edit grub.conf. Luckliy the current kernel was the problem and not the an update/s contained in the 500MB i downloaded last night. I have removed the current kernel from the system. Fedora13 is definitely a big improvement. Images fit better in the screen making the user experience much improved.

Here is the post u asked for BugRocks:

[root@localhost ~]# tail -n 50 /var/log/messages
Apr 12 13:40:49 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state: associating -> associated
Apr 12 13:40:51 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state: associated -> 4-way handshake
Apr 12 13:40:51 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state: 4-way handshake -> group handshake
Apr 12 13:40:51 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state: group handshake -> completed
Apr 12 13:40:51 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0/wireless) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) successful. Connected to wireless network 'orange'.
Apr 12 13:40:51 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) scheduled.
Apr 12 13:40:51 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) started...
Apr 12 13:40:51 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 5 -> 7 (reason 0)
Apr 12 13:40:51 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Beginning DHCPv4 transaction (timeout in 45 seconds)
Apr 12 13:40:51 localhost NetworkManager: <info> dhclient started with pid 2597
Apr 12 13:40:51 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP6 Configure Get) scheduled...
Apr 12 13:40:51 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) complete.
Apr 12 13:40:51 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP6 Configure Get) started...
Apr 12 13:40:51 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP6 Configure Get) complete.
Apr 12 13:40:51 localhost dhclient[2597]: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.1.1
Apr 12 13:40:51 localhost dhclient[2597]: Copyright 2004-2010 Internet Systems Consortium.
Apr 12 13:40:51 localhost dhclient[2597]: All rights reserved.
Apr 12 13:40:51 localhost dhclient[2597]: For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
Apr 12 13:40:51 localhost dhclient[2597]:
Apr 12 13:40:51 localhost dhclient[2597]: Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:22:43:94:15:eb
Apr 12 13:40:51 localhost dhclient[2597]: Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:22:43:94:15:eb
Apr 12 13:40:51 localhost dhclient[2597]: Sending on Socket/fallback
Apr 12 13:40:51 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): DHCPv4 state changed nbi -> preinit
Apr 12 13:40:52 localhost kernel: composite sync not supported
Apr 12 13:40:54 localhost dhclient[2597]: DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Apr 12 13:40:54 localhost dhclient[2597]: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
Apr 12 13:40:54 localhost dhclient[2597]: bound to 192.168.1.102 -- renewal in 35886 seconds.
Apr 12 13:40:54 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): DHCPv4 state changed preinit -> reboot
Apr 12 13:40:54 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP4 Configure Get) scheduled...
Apr 12 13:40:54 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP4 Configure Get) started...
Apr 12 13:40:54 localhost NetworkManager: <info> address 192.168.1.102
Apr 12 13:40:54 localhost NetworkManager: <info> prefix 24 (255.255.255.0)
Apr 12 13:40:54 localhost NetworkManager: <info> gateway 192.168.1.1
Apr 12 13:40:54 localhost NetworkManager: <info> nameserver '211.31.138.11'
Apr 12 13:40:54 localhost NetworkManager: <info> nameserver '211.29.132.12'
Apr 12 13:40:54 localhost NetworkManager: <info> domain name 'explore'
Apr 12 13:40:54 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit) scheduled...
Apr 12 13:40:54 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP4 Configure Get) complete.
Apr 12 13:40:54 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit) started...
Apr 12 13:40:54 localhost avahi-daemon[1033]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface wlan0.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.102.
Apr 12 13:40:54 localhost avahi-daemon[1033]: New relevant interface wlan0.IPv4 for mDNS.
Apr 12 13:40:54 localhost avahi-daemon[1033]: Registering new address record for 192.168.1.102 on wlan0.IPv4.
Apr 12 13:40:54 localhost dbus: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.98" (uid=500 pid=2497 comm="/usr/libexec/gdm-user-switch-applet) interface="org.gnome.DisplayManager.Settings" member="GetValue" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.gnome.DisplayManager" (uid=0 pid=1207 comm="/usr/sbin/gdm-binary))
Apr 12 13:40:54 localhost dbus: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.98" (uid=500 pid=2497 comm="/usr/libexec/gdm-user-switch-applet) interface="org.gnome.DisplayManager.Settings" member="GetValue" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.gnome.DisplayManager" (uid=0 pid=1207 comm="/usr/sbin/gdm-binary))
Apr 12 13:40:54 localhost dbus: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.98" (uid=500 pid=2497 comm="/usr/libexec/gdm-user-switch-applet) interface="org.gnome.DisplayManager.Settings" member="GetValue" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.gnome.DisplayManager" (uid=0 pid=1207 comm="/usr/sbin/gdm-binary))
Apr 12 13:40:55 localhost ntpd[1139]: Listening on interface #6 wlan0, 192.168.1.102#123 Enabled
Apr 12 13:40:55 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 7 -> 8 (reason 0)
Apr 12 13:40:55 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Policy set 'Auto orange' (wlan0) as default for routing and DNS.
Apr 12 13:40:55 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) successful, device activated.
Apr 12 13:40:55 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit) complete.
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