I'm not panicking, but my laptop is!

[kurtdriver]

This morning I saw what may have been this on alt-crtl-f1, the frst time that I recall having seen it (the GUI is at f7).




Console: switching to colour frame
fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device
drm registered panic notifier
Slow work thread pool: Starting up
Slow work thread pool: Ready
acpi device:0a: registered as cooling_device2
input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSSYSTM:00/LNSYSBIS:00/PNP0A08:00/LNXVISEO:01/INPUT/INPUT5
ACPI: Video Device [GFX0]
(multi-head): yes rom:no post: no
[drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730
modprobe used greatest stack depth: 2848 bytes left : Starting plymouth daemon

A bit later I installed a windows driver with ndiswrapper and then began the daily update. As yum was installing things, the desktop suddenly disappeared. At each Virtual console was the message above, although I'm guessing that it hasn't changed. Rebooting the computer gets this message flashing, just after the little blue "F" fills in. At this stage just a timer, (the little thing that goes round and round) and this flashing text off to the left. This is regardless of which kernel I boot from. I forgot to turn it off and when I got home the flashing had stopped, enabling me to see and type it.
I don't have a clue what's happening here, does anyone else? Thanks, Kurt

Edit: trying to do startx from init 3 and x won't run. The error is
/usr/bin/gnome-session: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: file too short.

[dd_wizard]

Have you tried "sudo yum-complete-transaction"? In my yum log, the package that provides that shared lib was in the update that didn't complete for you. If that doesn't work, try reinstalling gtk2, it was updated to gtk2-2.21.4-1.fc14.x86_64.

dd_wizard

[kurtdriver]

Thanks for your reply. I'm afraid it won't work until I can connect to the internet. Frankly, I'm getting annoyed with that, it should be easy. I thought it was as easy as

ifconfig wlan0 down
iwconfig wlan0 ap xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
ifconfig wlan0 up
dhclient wlan0

After that I can't ping google
and nmcli shows the connection as inactive.
One web page says that this ought to do it.

nmcli -p con up uuid eceac525-cd30-4df0-8631-73045b42e16e

When I google uuid it's all about hard drives.

Is there another way to do that? Right now I'm yumdownloading gtk2 on another machine for a sneaker net. Thanks again, Kurt

[dd_wizard]

I'm not sure if this will help, but you can list the wireless connections you've used and get their UUID.
[gene@Mobile-PC ~]$ nmcli con list
NAME UUID TYPE SCOPE TIMESTAMP-REAL
System coa (wlan0) 113f1f4e-535e-c25b-8849-2c6f770a6501 802-11-wireless system never
System eth0 5fb06bd0-0bb0-7ffb-45f1-d6edd65f3e03 802-3-ethernet system never


Hope that helps,
dd_wizard

[kurtdriver]

I'm not sure if this will help, but you can list the wireless connections you've used and get their UUID.
[gene@Mobile-PC ~]$ nmcli con list
NAME UUID TYPE SCOPE TIMESTAMP-REAL
System coa (wlan0) 113f1f4e-535e-c25b-8849-2c6f770a6501 802-11-wireless system never
System eth0 5fb06bd0-0bb0-7ffb-45f1-d6edd65f3e03 802-3-ethernet system never


Hope that helps,
dd_wizard

No, just the eth0 has one there. And I'm dependency hell with the sneakernet. Makes sense, sneakernets are old fashioned, so is dependency hell.:)

---------- Post added at 06:12 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 05:39 PM CDT ----------

Well this mystery is solved. I think that yum stopped after installing the new gtk2 and prior to erasing the old one. Finally I checked to make sure gtk2 was installed and saw two of them. Uninstalling the newer one fixed it. Thanks for your time dd_wizard.