System hang at logout

[BillLee]

HP Laptop ze5500 running FC2T3

Am able to boot and log in.

At logout time, the system simply hangs with a black screen. Nothing works. No mouse, no keyboard no ctl-alt-del....nothing except an extended press of the power button! :-(

The last message in the messages log file is

gdm(pam_unix)[2016]: session closed for user bill

The next message is the first from the reboot after powering down and then back up again.

I don't know what information to give to get help on this: please tell me!

Thanks,

Bill Lee

[Jman]

Try running poweroff and see if that shuts you down.

FC2 has been released, in case you're interested in upgrading.

[BillLee]

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

I downloaded FC2 this morning (early) after receiving your note. Had access to my son's broadband for a few hours! :-)

Regards,

Bill Lee

[BillLee]

"poweroff" brings me to the same place: a totally hung system requiring a power button reset.

Still looking for a solution. Will probably try to load the new FC2 and see what happens there.

Regards,

Bill Lee

[BillLee]

I just completed an upgrade FC2T3->FC2, and with the upgrade, the logout hang is solved.

I am guessing that the culprit was gdm.

The old gdm that was failing was

2.4.4.5-1

while the one that came with FC2 is

2.6.0.0-3

Regards,

Bill Lee

[Ranman448]

I have just loaded Fedora Core 2 on my ze5500 and it starts to boot, and then just goes blank, and locks up. Have to power off with button.

Have use "nofirewire" and also tried Interactive boot to bypass hardware detect as recommended by some sites I have seen.

I am thinking it is a video issue of some kind. Anyone else have this problem?

How can I find out what is going on with this thing?

Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Randy

[BillLee]

I suggest that you boot off the installation cd-rom and go into linux rescue mode. After you get there, do the 'chroot /mnt/sysimage'. You will then be in root in the system and you can go browse around in the logs.

When I did that I found "mdmpd" was the last thing in the log. I manually took it and "mdmonitor" out of the rc5.d and the boot then went on to completion.

A great sopurce of information on linux on the ze5500 is Mike Meyers. Visit his website at

http://mikeycal.com/HP_ze5500.html

and read his blog at

http://www.mikeycal.com/my/blogs/

I have corresponded with him several times and he has been fantastically helpful.

Bill Lee