On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 08:06:25AM +0700, Ken Heard wrote: > I have a Lenovo R61 laptop which I upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze at > the end of November last. Ever since that upgrade the boot routine > frequently aborts. The kernel is installed, and the boot routine > continues as far as the point where the font size changes. At that > point the screen goes blank, and the boot stops. > > I then have to shut down the machine by holding down the start > button for the required four seconds, and start the boot again for > as many times as necessary to achieve a complete boot. It takes on > average 3.5 such restarts each time I start the machine for a boot > to be finally successful. > > Furthermore, ever since I converted this machine on 2013-02-18 > Monday to dependency based booting, the shutdown process no longer > is completed. It goes to run level 0, closes a number of processes, > returns the line : “INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel” > and then stops completely. To complete the shutdown it is necessary > to hold down the “start” button for the requisite four seconds. > > I would be grateful for any information as the why these two > phenomena occur and how to return to a normal boot and shutdown.
Ouch! Have you ruled out hardware? Have you tried booting from a live-cd, knoppix, grml, something like that? -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130221021937.GA5987@tal