Fedora 9 Freeze At Login

[Kyle Lanigan]

On 31-Aug-08, at 4:59 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> Kyle Lanigan wrote:
>
>>>> So I've put in Fedora 9 just the other day, but it doesn't matter
>>>> when
>>>> I login into Fedora 9 after booting up into it, that everything
>>>> freezes once the login screen goes away after entering my username
>>>> and
>>>> password. I'm not sure what I'm suppose to do to get this working.
>>>
>>> How long do you wait?
>>> I find a surprisingly long wait -
>>> about 30 seconds - after logging in,
>>> with very little disk activity until near the end.
>>> I don't know what the computer is doing?
>>>
>>> But that doesn't sound like your problem.
>>> Have you tried logging in in text mode?
>>>
>>
>> Well last night around 8pm I logged in, it froze and I left it until
>> about 12:30 this afternoon and it made no progress sadly.
>> Text mode log in is when I access the DOS style terminal before login
>> right?
>
> When you say it froze, do you mean the cursor could not be moved?
> In that case there is probably nothing can be done at that stage.
>
> Earlier you might have been able to enter text mode by Ctrl-Alt-F1,
> or alternatively by using something like Knoppix to edit /etc/inittab
> and change id:5 to id:3 .
> Or you could enter grub interactively, and add text to the kernel  
> command.
> (That is not really a sufficient description.)
>
> If this happened to me, I would probably try one of the Fedora Live  
> CDs
> to see if they have the same problem.
>

The Live CD works amazingly fine on my computer.
If possible, could you give an in-depth instruction on what to do with  
the ID:5 change to ID:3?

>
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Sincerely,
         Kyle Lanigan