[K12OSN] help! K12 server crashed and isnt coming back up!

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 14:27 -0700, Jim Kathan wrote:
> help! my k12 server crashed and I can't get it to come back up. Its going 
> through the Fedora bootup, loading services, it gets to the very last part, the screen 
> freezes, and its not doing DHCP for the clients. 
> It is responding to a ping. 
> it refreshes the screen, I see the mouse pointer for a sec, then theres video corruption at the top of the screen, but its frozen.
> "starting HAL Daemon" is the last service loaded before the refresh-to-freeze.

If you have done an update since the last reboot, the new kernel may
have a problem with something.  Do a ctl-alt-delete to reboot cleanly
or if that doesn't work you'll have to power-cycle.  Hit a key quickly
at the grub screen, then use the arrow key to move down to your
previous kernel and hit enter to boot it.  If that works, edit
/etc/grub.conf after you are back up to make the working kernel
the default for subsequent reboots.

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  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com