Worked fine for last 6 months today won't work, help!!

jameshunt · #1 16th February 2008, 04:33 PM

Hi everyone, please reply in simple terms, am not a fedora expert! Basically everything was working fine and today I turned the comp on and everything was going fine untill this page

Quote:

Booting 'Fedora Core (2.6.22.14-72.fc6)'

root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x03
Kernal /valinuz-2.6.22.14-72.fc6 no root=/dev/VolGroup00/logVol00 rhgb quiet
(Linux-bzImage, setup 0x1e88, size=1eca74)
intrd /initrd-2.6.22.14-72.fc6.img
(Linux-intrd 0 0x37db7000, 0x238fc4 bytes)

Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernal.
Red Hat nash version 5.1.19.03 starting
usb 1-2: device descriptor read/all, error -71
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2
2 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active
Welcome to Fedora Core
Press 'I' to enter interactive startup.
Setting clock (utc); Sat Feb 16 16:04:02GMT 2008 [OK]
Starting udev: [OK]

Then after this screen the moniter jsut goes black and nothing happens, please help, haven't got a clue what is going on!! thanks

ogetbilo · #2 16th February 2008, 04:40 PM

Let's wait on that screen for a while and see what happens. I mean, wait for like 30-40 minutes.

jameshunt · #3 16th February 2008, 04:44 PM

its been on plain black screen for 2 hours now

ogetbilo · #4 16th February 2008, 04:46 PM

Ok, it might be an X issue. What video card do you have? Did you recently update your kernel? If so, can you try one of your older kernels?

ogetbilo · #5 16th February 2008, 04:50 PM

Oh, I just saw the line with usb error. Do you have a memory stick plugged in? Try taking off all your USB stuff and see if it boots.

jameshunt · #6 16th February 2008, 04:58 PM

I have unplugged all usb devices and tried again and that line ha

jameshunt · #7 16th February 2008, 04:59 PM

I have unplugged all usb devices and tried again and that line has gone but it still has same issue

jameshunt · #8 16th February 2008, 05:02 PM

i haven't updated kernal recently either

ogetbilo · #9 16th February 2008, 05:06 PM

Ok, let's boot up in runlevel 3 and check your X.org output. If there's a problem remove your video card driver.

Sorry, I have to leave now. If you don't know how to do this you may need to wait until tonight. Or maybe someone else will help.

jameshunt · #10 16th February 2008, 05:10 PM

no i don't know how to do this unfortunately, so all help is greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for your help so far

jonduf · #11 16th February 2008, 05:31 PM

Wait on the black screen for a good 20 minutes or so. Once you think you've waited long enought hit "ctrl + alt + F1" after about a second a prompt *should* appear and ask you to do a text login. See if you can get this far. This will be a good step to figuring out the problem.

jameshunt · #12 16th February 2008, 05:34 PM

maged to start up in run time level 3 and it let me log in. How do I check X.org output? What is the likely issue as it will boot in text mode?

Magnar · #13 16th February 2008, 06:16 PM

It's probably an X problem. Do you have specific drivers installed for your video card, or are you using the generic vesa driver? Have you changed some video settings lately? You could try

Code:

$ su -
# mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bkp

That way, I think X will generate a default configuration, which may give you working graphics.

jameshunt · #14 16th February 2008, 06:27 PM

Always used the generic driver. For some reason I did have some display settings up the other day and accidentally changed them but immediately changed it back. Thinking about it this may have been the last time I had it on. Hmmm. Tried typing in the above and no change when I booted up again
Just to let you guys know I really appreciate your help.

Magnar · #15 16th February 2008, 06:57 PM

Post the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf. This may give someone an idea of what is causing your problem.