Am Dienstag, den 12.09.2006, 09:15 -0400 schrieb Jim Wildman:
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Christian Bolz wrote:
Hi, since the last few days my system crashs at startup of gdm (on system boot).
If I choose runlevel 2, the system doesn't crash. I found out, that HAL is the problem. After disabling hal (chkconfig haldaemon --off) no crashes appear.
The system freezes completly so I can't look into the logfiles.
I removed an reinstalled hal already, but nothing changed.
I tried older kernels releases and nothing changed.
Any help would be nice!
Details would help. What hardware? What kernel version? What gdm version? What hal version?
Dell Inspiron 6000, Centrino (Intel 2200 WLAN), 512 MB, 1.6 GHz, ATI X300 all packages are up to date - except kernel. Because of problems with VMware I'm using version 2.6.9-34.0.2.EL. hal = 0.4.2-4.EL4 gdm = 2.6.0.5-7.rhel4.12
Had you made any changes to the system prior to this starting?
I looked at yum.log - no changes since Sep 01. But the problem first appeared yesterday.
The only thing I changed yesterday was deactivating ntpd.
If I boot into runlevel 2 and use "startx" the system works fine. If I boot into runlevel 5 and disabled hal before, the system works fine, too.
Only if I active hal and boot into runlevel 5 the system hangs.
Regards, Christian