System hangs during boot at - [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 [SOLVED]

[Cressida]

My system is locking up during the loading up PCL at the line   [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0

I am not having any luck with getting past it or determining what is going to cause this.  I did change out the video card but it seemed to work fine for several boots before it started to lock up.  I wonder if I need to fdisk my hard drive?  Any help would be appreciated.

[djohnston]

My system is locking up during the loading up PCL at the line   [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0

I am not having any luck with getting past it or determining what is going to cause this.  I did change out the video card but it seemed to work fine for several boots before it started to lock up.  I wonder if I need to fdisk my hard drive?  Any help would be appreciated.

drm is Direct Rendering Manager, so it looks video related. You need to supply more information. Without specifics, we have to guess at what you have installed or resort to asking you for more information.

What desktop are you running?
Can you boot the computer in Safe Mode?
What was the make and model of your old video card?
What is the make and model of your new video card?
Did you try taking the new video card out and putting the old one back in?
Have you done any troubleshooting steps on your own?
If so, what were they?

[Cressida]

What desktop are you running?

PCL 2012 KDE desktop - full updated

Can you boot the computer in Safe Mode?

No,  it hangs / stops as it is trying to load up.

What was the make and model of your old video card?

Video= AGP GeForce4 MX 420 (64mb)  - was using "nv" video driver

What is the make and model of your new video card?

ATI Radeon X300 SE PCI-E x16 128mb

Did you try taking the new video card out and putting the old one back in?

No.  I traded it out.

Have you done any troubleshooting steps on your own?

I put in a brand new CMOS battery on the MB.  The keyboard locks up so I cannot input anything.

[djohnston]

Well, if you can't boot in Safe Mode, you can't even get to a console. What about booting from a live CD? Have you tried that yet? It looks like the problem, so far, is that you've changed from an nVidia to an ATI. But, that doesn't explain why you can't boot into Safe Mode. Try the live CD and see what happens.

Do you have any onboard video connector?

[AS]

I put in a brand new CMOS battery on the MB.  The keyboard locks up so I cannot input anything.

Check your motherboard manuals and perform a BIOS reset to factory default.

AS

[Cressida]

Well, if you can't boot in Safe Mode, you can't even get to a console. What about booting from a live CD? Have you tried that yet? It looks like the problem, so far, is that you've changed from an nVidia to an ATI. But, that doesn't explain why you can't boot into Safe Mode. Try the live CD and see what happens.

Do you have any onboard video connector?

No onboard video and no 3D.

I am able to boot up fine using the live CD so now I can get to a terminal if you have an commands for me to use to check anything.   I have not been able to find much about this "drm" from reading.    

I am trying to run the fsck.ext4 command to check for bad files.   I'm not having any luck so far and I think it is because I don't know how to enter the extra codes on the command like -p, -y, etc.

[djohnston]

From the live CD, open a terminal.

su -
fsck -f /dev/sda1

Substitute /dev/sda1 with the actual partitions to be checked. Don't check the swap partition. fdisk -l will show you a list of the partitions.

[Cressida]

From the live CD, open a terminal.

su -
fsck -f /dev/sda1

Substitute /dev/sda1 with the actual partitions to be checked. Don't check the swap partition. fdisk -l will show you a list of the partitions.

That did it - I'm back in the saddle again...

When I ran the fsck it found something it didn't like and I selected "y" and that was that.   Now booting into PCL like normal again.   (BTW, thanks for mentioning about the fdisk -l to show the partitions.  It was indeed sda1 where the problem was located by fsck. )