Fedora Core 4 hangs before switching to the greeter, during bootup

[Ferindo Middleton Jr]

(In reply to Topic #18 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162002#c3>)
> Re: Fedora Core 4 hangs before switching to the greeter during, boot up (Andy Pieters)

I do boot directly into Run level 5.

'ls -l /etc/rc.d/rc5.d | grep S99local' on the shell yields:

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 11 Jun 19 10:08 S99local -> ../rc.local

I just rebooted my system to try switching to another virtual terminal with <ctrl>+<alt>+<f2>... but oops, I spoke to soon because it didn't hang again after rebooting and switching to the GDM greeter. It seems as though a yum update or something automatically fixed the problem. Since it seems as though this problem regresses, I'm sure I'll get to try the troubleshooting recomendations of A. Pieters again.

All new problem now, during the last automatic yum update apparently the kernel-2.6.12-1.1387_FC4 was installed and now the system hangs way earlier than just before getting to the greeter.... 

How do you turn off automatic yum updates? This is apparently turned on by default in FC4 for the first time and I actually find it a bad thing that packages are updating with out my knowing about it and approving it first - this makes it hard to determine which updates are fixing intermittent problems on the system. I like to turn automatic yum updates off and have to run yum update manually to approve updates before they happen.

Ferindo

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