On Thursday February 5 2009, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Thursday February 5 2009, Jan Karjalainen wrote:
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When I do Ctrl+Alt+F1, the only thing I see is the startup messages and the last line which says "Blocking file system". F2-F6 won't work at all, just F1 and F7.
The same happens when I reboot and put 1 or 3 as an option in Grub menu. "Blocking file system" comes up after a while... It never goes as far as to giving me a console prompt.
Now there's a classic phrase for a Web search. Google gives many hits (using the quotations that make it search for a literal phrase, not just a document with all those words; add other keywords as necessary to refine or redirect the search on subsequent attempts). The bulk of the first page of Google hits mention VMware. Are you using that?
Check it out (from my own system, where VMware Workstation 6.5 is installed): % egrep -li 'Blocking File System' /etc/init.d/* /etc/init.d/vmware Examining /etc/init.d/vmware, I find that it prints that just before running "vmware_start_vmblock" (during start-up) and again before executing "vmware_stop_vmblock" (during shut-down). Clearly VMware is, if not the culprit itself, involved in this symptom. Thus perusal and search of the VMware forums is a good place to start. There are many knowledgeable users and clearly this has come up before and either the solution of further diagnostic actions can likely be found there. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org