Boot messages

Paulmonk · #1 7th December 2010, 01:50 PM

I am unable to boot my laptop in the usual way.
The fedora emblem in the centre of the screen appears and starts to turn from white to dark blue in the usual way. When it is almost complete it stops.
In order to make the machine boot i hit escape and a message says leaving interactive startup mode. At this point the machine continues to start up.

When i do manage to get it to boot i get the following message repeated many times:

sbin/pidof: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
/sbin/pidof: line 1: `<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">'

I should also add... The laptop will not close down, once i click switch off the screen turns blue and displays the fedora emblem in the centre. At the top right text says "Shutting Down" but at this point the system hangs.

Thanks in advance for the assistance

***glennzo*** · #2 7th December 2010, 09:14 PM

Paul. I don't have an answer for you. I did take a look at my Fedora 14 box and it seems that /sbin/pidof is a link to killall5 which is also in /sbin.

Code:

[glenn@server ~>]$ file /sbin/pidof
/sbin/pidof: symbolic link to `killall5'

Code:

[glenn@server ~>]$ file /sbin/killall5
/sbin/killall5: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, stripped

Maybe that will give you a little bit of help. Steer you in the right direction possibly? Also have a look at man killall5.

Found this:

Quote:

DESCRIPTION
killall5 is the SystemV killall command. It sends a signal to all processes except the processes in its own session, so it won't kill the shell that is running the script it was called from. Its primary (only) use is in the rc scripts found in the /etc/init.d directory.

JamesNZ · #3 8th December 2010, 04:50 AM

I had similar problems to yours in F13 and the way i fixed it was by reinstalling Fedora but selecting "Install with basic video driver" at the DVD boot screen instead of the default option. As for

Quote:

sbin/pidof: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
/sbin/pidof: line 1: `<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

I have no idea what that means.

Paulmonk · #4 26th December 2010, 11:59 PM

Thanks both. I couldn't find a workable solution so performed a clean install of Fedora 14. All is well now