On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > I reinstalled CentOS. > Just used the default repositories. > It just dies. > The screen suddenly goes dark and I cannot do anything. > Other virtual teminals are unreachable. > The green light on my monitor turns yellow, indicating not signal. > The only evidence of life is that I can > usually reset it with the reset button. > The power button is usually unnecessary. > > I cannot try to remote in from another computer > because I do not have another computer. > > After a couple of the crashes, > I've seen pages of orphan nodes in the / partition. > Eventually I did yet another install using another / partition. > Fewer orphan nodes. > > I've looked in /var/{dmesg,Xorg.0.log,messages}, > but did see anything that looked like a killer. > That might be because I do not know what I am looking for. > > Any suggestions on where else I should > look or what I should be looking for? > I take you eliminated hardware issues already, right? The orphan node thing kinda scares me. Second, how about if you configure grub not to boot in graphical mode (http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/red-hat-fedora-linux/35143-boot-fedora-grub-into-text-mode-only.html)? You know, no X or anything like that; you can always start it manually later. In other words, let's get machine running first. > > -- > Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu > "On Monday, I'm gonna have to tell my kindergarten class, > whom I teach not to run with scissors, > that my fiance ran me through with a broadsword." -- Lily > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos