FC4 system boot hangs

[Eric Tanguy]

Le vendredi 17 juin 2005 à 18:56 +0200, Andy Pieters a écrit :
> On Friday 17 June 2005 13:42, Eric Tanguy wrote:
> > Sometimes (it seems to be randomly) the system hangs at boot up. Just
> > before writing ok for the cups starting. I can't see anything
> > in /var/log/messages.
> > Someone would have an idea ?
> Hi
> 
> I have this also.  The culprit on my system seems to be the GPM (Console Mouse 
> Services).  
> 
> I loged on in runlevel 1 (append single to your kernel command), and tried to 
> start that service.  It hangs while starting.  When I aborted, and then 
> checked with ps, it show that the process is loaded... So my guess is this is 
> something in the configuration file.
> 
> Anyway, my fix was to chkconfig level 123456 gpm off, then exit and the system 
> boots up normally.
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> 
I tried this without any success. I think this is a service which
sometimes hangs at boot but i can't find which one.

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Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz) sur athlon kernel 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4