CentOS 5 :: CentOS 5.4 Hangs Just Before Desktop Loads?
Apr 1, 2010
My Dell poweredge server running CentOS 5.4 and booting kernel-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5. All boot processes seem okay and the graphical screens for CentOS operate, but just before the desktop loads the screen goes blank and the arrow/cursor is being circled by small spheres. This remains indefinitely. While the arrow is being circled, here are the results of 'getinfo.sh device'
Quote:==================== BEGIN uname -rmi ====================
2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 i686 i386
==================== END uname -rmi ====================
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Jun 14, 2010
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I found another related post: "udev hangs on boot for a long time, suspect pam_console_apply"[URL]..So, I booted by VMs using the "udevdebug" option to grub and received the same error message - "udevd-event [###]: run_program: Waiting ## seconds for output of '/sbin/pam_console_apply /dev/..."
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>Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
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Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason a0.
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