Are there any USB or other types of devices trying to load at boot? Perhaps try disabling all of those in settings.
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:52 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote: > Fedora 16, x86_64 on Thinkpad T61 using nVidia drivers. All updates > applied. > > I require Virtualbox to run Windows 2000 in which I run Quickbooks. I > need to run it only once every couple of weeks, but when I need it I > really need it. > > Today I launched Virtualbox, which came up without error. I tried to > start the Windows 2000 machine (which always worked flawlessly before), > and got a dialog box that said: > > Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Windows 2000. > The virtual machine 'Windows 2000' has terminated unexpectedly > during startup because of signal 9. > > The first time I tried this there was a "details" button that offered > additional information, none of which was in English, just stuff that a > programmer might understand. I did not copy it down. I decided to > Google on the problem and got a Google page open, then the entire > computer hung - no keyboard, no mouse. There were no flashing lights. I > had to hit the power button. In three years of running Fedora I have > run into issues, but I have never had the computer hang completely. > > Upon restarting I tried again. This time I was able to write down the > above error message, but when I tried to click on the details button to > copy down the additional information the computer had hung again. > > Upon restarting I opened Yumex first and applied all available updates > (33 of them), then rebooted. After rebooting I tried Virtualbox again, > and this time it hung as soon as I selected "Windows 2000" and hit the > Start button; I never even got the above error message. > > I also have Windows XP installed as a virtual machine. Trying to start > it locks up the computer the same as the Windows 2000 machine. > > Fortunately, everything else works just fine, as before. > > I posted this morning on the Fedora forums. So far 95 people have > viewed my post, but no suggestions. I am out of ideas and I really need > to print an invoice so I can ship an order. Any suggestions welcome! > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
