Dell OptiPlex 745 reboot problem -- BIOS update went poorly

[François Patte]

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Le 05.09.2008 23:51, Johnathan Hegge a écrit :

> Starting up looks fine, all services showed OK.  Gets to local, X starts
> and the box freezes at the spinning dots with a frozen mouse.  Can't
> break with Ctrl-Alt-Del or Ctrl-Backspace.  

seems that X is stuck.

> 
> Hard power, restart, interactive init.  Allow all, but skip local.  X
> starts fine.  
> 
> rc.local contains:
> 
> 
>> #!/bin/sh
>> #
>> # This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
>> # You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
>> # want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.
>>
>> touch /var/lock/subsys/local

nothing

> 
> 
> Reset BIOS to defaults for kicks, no change.  I have a PCI Express
> graphics card, ATI x1300 installed.  

Disable selinux and retry.

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François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université Paris Descartes
45, rue des Saints Pères
F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. +33 (0)1 44 55 35 61
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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