2010.1 Live CD system locks up while loading

[ka9yhd]

The md5 checksum is good and the media check says it passed.

The system locks up while loading the 2010.1 live cd.  I thought it might be the video card, GeFore FX5200.  So I tried it in vesa mode.  This time it went a bit farther.  This time the splash screen came up but right after the hard drive icon appears is when the system locks up.  Mouse cursor freezes, hard drive lite on constant, and the cd drive lite flashing rapidly.

This is my desktop system which currently has 2007 on it.

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[root@localhost ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 755 Host (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS964 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 36)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01)
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:05.0 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] RAID bus controller 180 SATA/PATA  [SiS] (rev 01)
00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306 Fire II IEEE 1394 OHCI Link Layer Controller (rev 80)
00:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3112 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)
[root@localhost ~]#


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processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model : 44
model name : AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 1800.000
cache size : 128 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow up pni lahf_lm
bogomips : 3598.96
clflush size : 64
power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc


[Old-Polack]

ka9yhd:

Sounds like a kernel panic. Press the Esc key to see the boot messages, which will give some explanation as to why this is happening.

[ka9yhd]

Where it is locking up it is already past the verbose mode.   After displaying the text, it will blank the screen and the graphics come up , kdm screen.

The last message displayed is "starting display manager"

The display blanks then a window for keyboard selection comes up.  US keyboard is highlighted, click "ok"
Display blanks then the KDM display comes up.  The hard drive icon shows then when the second icon starts to appear, the system locks up.

[Old-Polack]

Where it is locking up it is already past the verbose mode.   After displaying the text, it will blank the screen and the graphics come up , kdm screen.

The last message displayed is "starting display manager"

The display blanks then a window for keyboard selection comes up.  US keyboard is highlighted, click "ok"
Display blanks then the KDM display comes up.  The hard drive icon shows then when the second icon starts to appear, the system locks up.

Does the disk work in other computers?

[ka9yhd]

Yes I have tried it on my laptop and it works.

[JNibski]

...Hi k9,........  

...and the cd drive lite flashing rapidly.

how's your cd/dvd rom unit?  ...maybe its dirty/malfunctioning?

...Your topic has happened to me also a few times, on different machines,  I'm still trying to figgure it out...But I have noticed you need patience with these live cd's...they seem to take a lot longer to "think"...maybe give it more time??? 

your friend ,

JN

[melodie]

Hi,

On  my desktop, some flavors don't work either. Theses are the ones with bfs kernels.

The problem ka9yhd meets with looks strangely like the one I meet with. I had to put all my partitions upside down on my laptop to install Phoenix and E17 there in order to remaster them to french, as in my desktop it's just impossible : once the desktop is there (I can reach the desktop... ) the live (usb in my case) freezes immediatly. Nothing responds : no keyboard, nothing.

In the laptop I immediatly changed the kernel for the most recent non bfs one. (And started remastering).

On the desktop I installed Kde Minime for the same purpose.

[ka9yhd]

Ok .  Neal did a remaster of it for me with the AMD 64 bit kernel from the repos, and it locks up in the same spot........... right after the hard drive icon appears on the KDM splash screen.

Next I tried "safe mode" and it is running........... I am using it now.

[melodie]

Hi,

Could you copy here the 2 blocks of text from /boot/grub/menu.lst : the standard boot text block, and the safe mode text block ?

[ka9yhd]

Last night I burned a copy of 2010 Gnome and it loaded up without problems.  Also 2010 Openbox loads on this machine.

I am not sure what is up with this desktop system and KDE4.

[melodie]

Hi ka9yhd,

Have you tried with Minime as well ? What are the kernels on the systems that run ok and the kernel on the system that does not run ok ? and considering your old nvidia card,how does it go if you put  just "nv" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf "Driver" block text ?

[ka9yhd]

Well since 2010 PClinuxOS-Gnome Live CD loaded on this machine I installed it, and now I am using 2010 PClos Gnome.

[Artwi]

I had the same problem with a Celeron system. Choosing 'safe kernel setting' (F6) + nosmp helped. Problem with single core CPU?

[ka9yhd]

Yes it is a single core AMD Sempron 3000+ 64 bit.

[ka9yhd]

Well whatever was causing the problem with KDE freezing on this desktop system seems to have been fixed.
Today I installed KDE 4.5 with Synaptic using the command "task-kde4" and KDE loads just fine, I am using it now.