On Wed, 3 Apr 2013, Dale Snell wrote: > Huzzah! Glad to hear it! From what I've been reading, this bug is one of > those really NASTY race problems that shows up whenever it bloody well > pleases. Or when the moons all line up and beam bozo rays into (some of) > the systems. Horrible problems to find.
Dale, Yeah. Pat Volkerding said he found > 2,000 forum messages on this bug occuring in every linux distribution. It may be related to udev, but that's way above my pay grade to understand. > Best of luck. There are a lot of folks looking into this, but every > little bit helps. The 'fix' is to set vga = normal in lilo.conf and not use any frame buffers. If I correctly understand the situation the only thing frame buffers do is show a penquin for each CPU core and use the defined screen resolution from the beginning of the boot process. Turning off frame buffers means no Tux and the screen resolution starts at 640x400 before switching to a higher resolution about half way through the boot process. > Once again, congratulations in getting your machine to run. Thanks. I need to take it on a business trip next week so having it fully functional (except for virtualbox) is a Good Thing(TM). Tomorrow I'll boot it up again and try to find why it cannot find a virtualbox library when it boots. Must be something in the core distribution that wiped it out during the upgrade. Sigh. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
