Array CD 4 (installation and live editions)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 10:12:12AM +0100, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:

> > > As I said in the mail, it hangs at "Entering Runlevel 2". 
> > > But I bet it will work on my friend machine (similar spec), as Array 3.5
> > > Live hung too on my machine but worked fine on his...go figure :-/
> > 
> > Try booting in recovery mode (it should work), run
> > "/etc/init.d/vbesave start", and see if that hangs the machine.  If so, that
> > will give us a good idea of the nature of the problem.
> > 
> > -- 
> >  - mdz
> 
> Hi Matt, 
> 
> Hey, I was just about to post about that, you stole the words from my
> mouth ! ;o)
> 
> Yes, I did try Recovery mode, and it WORKS. Doesn't hang, I do get the
> command line, and I can start GDM fine and access Ubuntu, I just spent
> an hour playing with it, and just rebooted to Warty to write his
> message. 
> Bags of bugs in there, too many to list, but the essentials are there :

Please don't report problems that you might observe when starting gdm from
recovery mode; that isn't supported.

> it starts, doesn't crash/reboot, doesn't freeze, and internet work. So
> that gives people enough to test it and report bugs. :-)
> So recovery mode works, but 'normal' mode (how is it called ? :o),
> always hangs at "Entering Runlevel 2".
> 
> Any idea ?

Yes; please try the test that I requested in my previous message.  If you
can cause it to hang by running that command, then I can tell you both where
to file the bug, and how to workaround the problem to allow your system to
boot normally.

-- 
 - mdz