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

[Oliver Leitner]

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Ferindo Middleton Jr wrote:
> (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
> 

you prolly got the yum update daemon running, check back with:

chkconfig --list

and disable it, that should solve the problem with the auto updates.

on the other hand, kernels are released for a reason, so you prolly
better wanna fix the problem with the kernel, than disabling something
as vital as the auto update function.

in case you want help with your kernel error, please provide us with the
dmesg output of that box...

Greetings
Oliver Leitner
Technical Staff
http://www.shells.at
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