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Jimmers
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 Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 11:02 am Post subject: System hangs after "setting user font" |
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| On boot, linux begins to load until it gets to "setting user font". Then it just hangs indefinately. It will, however, actually set the font, as I've changed the setting in /etc/init.d/consolefont, and the console reflects the change immediately before hanging. Anyone know of some way to get past this point. I'm using gentoo-dev-sources (2.6.9-gentoo-r14) on an AMD64. |
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ikaro
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| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
try to disable the console font :
rc-update del consolefont default
see if it 'fixes' it 
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Jimmers
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| Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 4:25 am Post subject: |
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Didn't work. Interestingly though, when I ran...
| Code: | | rc-update del consolefont default |
...it said that 'consolefont' didn't appear in any runlevel. I ran...
| Code: | | rc-update add consolefont default |
...to see if that would help at all, but no. Maybe I should restart the install from scratch to see if things work out better?
On my Gentoo laptop, the next item after "setting user font" is "loading keymaps". Maybe something is going wrong there?
[EDIT] Okay, I found out that 'keymaps', 'localmount' (which I think is lo) and 'urandom' (random number generator) were not in any runlevels, and they are required for booting on my gentoo laptop. So I tried:
| Code: | rc-update add keymaps default
rc-update add localmount default
rc-update add urandom default |
but the original problem still persists. Is there any kind of script like 'rc-update add all default', in case I missed something? |
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Jimmers
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| Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:51 am Post subject: |
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Well, I don't know what the problem was, but it was fixed with a fresh stage-1 install. Oh well, I needed to add a few things in the kernel anyway, and now I have a real 64bit OS  . Now, I just need to figure out how to get WinXP and WixXP_x64 beta installed. |
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Jimmers
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If anyone else has had this problem, I've found that disabling 'power management' in the kernel fixes it. I don't know if this relates to my specific hardware or if it's a problem with the kernel, but here's my complete system information:
AMD Athlon64 3000+ NC-core (512k L2 cache, socket 754, 2.0GHz)
Chaintech VNF-3 mobo (strangely has the nForce3-250Gb chipset)
1.5 GB RAM (2.5-4-4-7, 200MHz)
1x Seagate Berracuda SATA drive 80GB
Creative Soundblaster Audigy LS
eVGA 6800GT AGP
Antec 430W TruPower SomeThingOrOther(tm)
Kernel: gentoo-dev-sources linux-2.6.9-gentoo-r14 |
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