On 05/18/2014 11:38 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 8:00 PM, ToddAndMargo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have a rather "old" computer out in my shop with
>> SL6.5, x64 on it.  It has run beautifully on Linux
>> for years and years.
>>
>> Now, when it boots up, it freeze up at "udev".
>> Nothing else shows other than udev.  I have to
>> pull the power plug and try again.  Then it
>> works fine.
>>
>> The symptom is reproducible with my Fedora Core 20
>> Live USB flash drive.  Freeze up at the start of the
>> Fedora Tear Drop logo.
>>
>> The RAID controller and everything else in BIOS
>> always works.
>>
>> Any idea how to approach troubleshooting this?
>> I figure it is either the motherboard, the memory,
>> or the CPU.
>
> Motherboard battery? Can you boot an Ubuntu Live CD, because those
> tend to have more recent kernels than SL, and more stable ones than
> Fedora.
>

Hi Niko,

Thank you! I don't think I have ever changed its
battery either.

This only happens when the machine has been off for a day
or more.  So, you may be on to something.  I will go into
bios and check to see it the date is all messed up.  Maybe
change the $1.35 battery anyway, just because it is really
cheap to do.  (I change those batteries for free for my
customers -- a nice customer relations gesture.)


I like to stick with Red Hat stuff, so I use Fedora's
live CD.  Plus the Xfce folks are really nice about
adding utilities I want to it, as long as they are
small.

-T


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