Author Topic: <<Solved,but--many thanks for comming back>>Urgent--laptop not booting PCLinuxos  (Read 1537 times)

Offline gezza

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Hi to all,
Having done an update today then shutting down the Laptop I now cannot login to user.
error message is:--
Sorry it is not getting that far.
I see that the 'HAL' daemon fails and as to why 'httpd' is being used is a mystery but it hangs at that point.
Sorry for this I am giving up and doing a re-install.
I would like to now why I could not login as the user and why I should have variable booting sequences as I am having??
Re-install is the only answer as far as I can see.

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« Last Edit: April 30, 2011, 04:15:41 PM by gezza »

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Re: Urgent--laptop not booting PCLinuxos
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2011, 03:27:35 AM »
Can't you boot in safe move and start the hal daemon then startx? Once you get to the desktop you can fix whatever you did to break it.


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Re: Urgent--laptop not booting PCLinuxos
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2011, 03:31:04 AM »
In addition to Tex's post did you happen to install a new kernel?
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Re: Urgent--laptop not booting PCLinuxos
« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2011, 02:21:06 AM »
 Thanks for returning my mail,
Yes, i installed the MythTV packages!!
I tried Tex's method but that did not work, so i did a re-install and did not install MythTV.
All is now running very well.
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Re: Urgent--laptop not booting PCLinuxos
« Reply #4 on: April 16, 2011, 06:46:08 AM »
LOL Definitely the no frills way. :)
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Re: Urgent--laptop not booting PCLinuxos
« Reply #5 on: April 17, 2011, 10:35:15 AM »
LOL Definitely the no frills way. :)
:D :D

That's how I usually do it, i'll post the problem once, but if the first answer is Old Polack telling me to open up a terminal, su to root, and then  fdisk -qwerty chmod grep sed whizzbang runlevel yada zip-a-dee-doo-dah --lollapalooza, I just re-install ;) :D :D
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Re: Urgent--laptop not booting PCLinuxos
« Reply #6 on: April 17, 2011, 10:43:00 AM »
LOL Definitely the no frills way. :)
:D :D

That's how I usually do it, i'll post the problem once, but if the first answer is Old Polack telling me to open up a terminal, su to root, and then  fdisk -qwerty chmod grep sed whizzbang runlevel yada zip-a-dee-doo-dah --lollapalooza, I just re-install ;) :D :D


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Re: Urgent--laptop not booting PCLinuxos
« Reply #7 on: April 17, 2011, 10:55:38 AM »
LOL Definitely the no frills way. :)

 :D :D

That's how I usually do it, i'll post the problem once, but if the first answer is Old Polack telling me to open up a terminal, su to root, and then  fdisk -qwerty chmod grep sed whizzbang runlevel yada zip-a-dee-doo-dah --lollapalooza, I just re-install ;) :D :D



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Re: Urgent--laptop not booting PCLinuxos
« Reply #8 on: April 17, 2011, 12:19:14 PM »
LOL Definitely the no frills way. :)

 :D :D

That's how I usually do it, i'll post the problem once, but if the first answer is Old Polack telling me to open up a terminal, su to root, and then  fdisk -qwerty chmod grep sed whizzbang runlevel yada zip-a-dee-doo-dah --lollapalooza, I just re-install ;) :D :D






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Re: Urgent--laptop not booting PCLinuxos
« Reply #9 on: April 17, 2011, 12:30:48 PM »
LOL Definitely the no frills way. :)

 :D :D

That's how I usually do it, i'll post the problem once, but if the first answer is Old Polack telling me to open up a terminal, su to root, and then  fdisk -qwerty chmod grep sed whizzbang runlevel yada zip-a-dee-doo-dah --lollapalooza, I just re-install ;) :D :D






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Re: Urgent--laptop not booting PCLinuxos
« Reply #10 on: April 17, 2011, 12:39:58 PM »


Actually I should have added the highlighting, but danged if i've figured out that color code... :D :D
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Re: Urgent--laptop not booting PCLinuxos
« Reply #11 on: April 17, 2011, 02:19:56 PM »
don't even start with the color code.. I always get the feeling I just had a real bad trip  ;) ;)
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Re: Urgent--laptop not booting PCLinuxos
« Reply #12 on: April 17, 2011, 08:42:43 PM »
don't even start with the color code.. I always get the feeling I just had a real bad trip  ;) ;)

 ;D

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