On Tuesday 28 June 2005 21:40, Claude Fuhrer wrote:
Hi everybody
I've spent the whole day trying to install the 9.3 on a Dell Precision 370 (with a NVidia graphics card). The problem is the following :
I can boot on the dvd and the install software do the 2 phases of the installation (partionning the system and installing the base, doing the first boot and finalizing the installation). When the installation is finished (basically I've installed a KDE complete system, accepting all the default + ssh) I've rebooted the system. The beginning of the boot seems to be ok and the differents settings are all marked "done". When the system try to start the kdm, it displays a clock during some seconds and then only the mouse pointer on a black screen and nothing else happen. Even the keyboard does not let me to do anything (like a ctrl-alt-f1 to have an terminal for example). I can access the machine through ssh and I don't see anything wrong. But something is wrong because an "init 3" through ssh session does not have any action.
I know that my description of the problem is not precise enough to receive a solution, but if you can give me an hint for the direction where I should look... I did not found anything on the archive of the list ;-)
Thank you very much for your help
I some way I had similar problems you have, that means "no response to keyboard, mousepointer not moving, but being able to SSH login. I did not have this problem during install, but during normal work and at random points in time. What I also noticed is that X was using almost 100 % CPU at that time, and the only way to get around it, is by sending it a kill -9 . What I did last week is applying the latest fixes for X (dont know exactly which package, but it was posted on this list last week) and I haven't experienced the problem for a week now, while I had a few times a week before. So, it might be a completely different issue, but maybe worth a try ? regards, Harry Metske