CentOS 5 :: Not Getting To Startup Screen After 5.4 Update
Dec 16, 2009
This system has been centos 5.2, 5.3 and now after an update ( through yum ) to 5.4 i can't get to the startup screen. System was a barebones kit with ASUS P5Q-E motherboard, WD-500gb sata, Intel Processor
After the update I get:
BIOS Bug MCFG area at e0000000 is not E820-reserved
NOT Using MMCONFIG
I get to the part that says: press "i" for interactive startup ... starting "udev", then nothing. Just black screen. I followed other recommendations and loaded the lastest BIOS onto the motherboard, but the issue still persists. I'm also not able to boot any of the older kernels through the grub menu. Not sure where to go from here since I can't boot into anything.
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Apr 6, 2011
Ok, i'm sure this is really basic and it's probably been posted before but I have searched and can't find anything.
Long time linux user, first time with centOS
I am building a basic firewall system with ssh acces only, I only occasionally need gui/gnome access so I have sent my init level to init 3 in /etc/inittab.
My problem is during startup the screen wants to run the gui startup and for some reason the driver isn't quite right so it flashes the screen every time it starts a process and says [OK] because of this I miss 90% of the startup information.
I have already disabled the splash screen in /boot/grub/grub.conf and that did disable the grub splash screen but how can I disable the "centOS" spash stuff? I only want txt at startup, I don't want the system to do anything graphical until I type startx.
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I am setting up a CentOS server that has no screen connected, and only has 2 Tesla cards. I have created a minimal xorg.conf and xinitrc file that doesn't load mouse or keyboard, and only creates two screens, one for each card at 320x200x24 bit. This is so I don't waste VRAM on a framebuffer I can't see.
I modified the xinitrc to just load tdm and nothing else as GNOME is a RAM hog. I am then using this setup to render stuff offscreen using OpenGL into FBOs which I read back to CPU and process. Currently for development I just run startx& when I login. I now want to know how to set x server to start automatically at boot. The CentOS docs say that it will try to load the GNOME login manager. The thing is that I don't want a login manager as it is useless as I login remotely via SSH.So:
1 - how to enable automatic x server in CentOS (im used to Ubuntu so not sure how to do this on Red Hat variants)
2 - leave x server running without starting login manager
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I am searching for a way to run multiple commands at boot time using the gnu screen utility.
A solution could be:
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I just upgraded to the 10.04 and everything works just fine as before (except for skype but that really doesn't matters as it has already been 3 years I'm using ubuntu and I managed to get it to work only once, for miracle I believe ^^). The only real issue I have is this: when I start up my laptop, after the log-in, no sound will be heared as the "speaker" volume level in alsamixer is set to 0; if I raise it from the terminal running alsamixer (as I don't know any other alternative) everything plays just fine, but the next time I boot I do have to do it all over again... So, how can I change the default startup level of the "speaker" in alsamixer?
PS: by the way I do have the very same issue with the screen luminosity but the other way round as is always starts at maximum brightness and I can't manage to get it to start at the minimum, as it did before. At least reducing the backlight if far more quick but a couple of times I forget it and the battery lasted something like half an hour
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On two Centos5 servers, yum gives a segmentation fault error when trying 'yum update' or 'yum check-update' after running 'yum clean' :
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The error is the same for the other computer except while attempting to update the rpmforge repository. Nothing has really changed on the servers in some time and 'yum update' worked fine on each yesterday and I have no idea why they would both suddenly fail!
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What is the best way to begin troubleshooting startup problems after kernel update to 2.6.31.12-174.22.fc12.x86-64? Since updating, I am experiencing frequent system hangs at startup.
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I think I remember also to have seen some X11 stuff, but aren't quite sure (not updating often, so always getting quite a number of packages at once). The problem is that the system doesn't start any longer. The start screen shows the blue progress bar, then flickers and the system halts. I tried to start any of the last two older kernels but with the same result. When running in verbose mode I can see the following:
...
Checking for module nvidia.ko: [OK]
Enabling the nvidia driver: /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: line 530: 1033 Segmentation fault "$@"
[FAILED]
...
There are a couple of more successful steps afterwards, but the system will never start. I tried a different runlevel by appending 'init 2' to the startup line, but wasn't able to login with any of my users. In despair I tried the link 'Updating to Fedora 13' from the boot menu, but it isn't actually offering an upgrade, but a complete re-install instead.
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the problem that I face it is when I run synaptic package manger or try to install an updates from update manger this error message appear :
PHP Code:
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and it close he windows after press close button in the error windows.i can't install or update anything in my pc.
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xubuntu 8.04 on inspiron 8100
Applications>Settings>Settings Manager>Autostarted apps Update notifier is unchecked
There does not seem to be any Preferences in Update Manager to tweak either.
Is there some file I can edit with nano? Or maybe there's a script I can rename to not run it at startup?
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For some reason, when I do a yum check-update I get a list of no changed packages to install. If I follow this immediately with a yum update then it tries to install drbd83. I've tried a yum clean all and repeated the commands and get the same thing. This happens on both the machines that are set up to use DRBD. Just seems weird and I don't understand. Anyone got an explanation?
[root@here]# yum check-update
Loaded plugins: changelog, downloadonly, fastestmirror, priorities, protectbase,
: security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* epel: www.mirrorservice.org
* base: mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net
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Pressing "CTRL+ALT+DEL" reboot the system.
even get access to the console for further debugging?
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I looked for this but couldn't find it.
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init: udevtrigger post-stop process (404) terminated with status 1
init: udevmonitor main process (397) killed by TERM signal
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Continue to wait; or Press S to skip mounting or M for manual
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What I've done:
Ive placed a boot.sh script in init.d: Code: sh /home/xinity/eXtremeServer/startup.sh startup.sh: Code: cd /home/xinity/eXtremeServer
screen -S Sandbox ./orangebox/StartServer.sh Code: cd /home/xinity/eXtremeServer/orangebox/
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Is there any other way to execute scripts at startup? I remember when I ran Ubuntu Desktop, I managed to run it by the program Startup Manager. There has to be an nongui way to do this?
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