On 16 April 2012 15:27, Colin Guthrie <mag...@colin.guthr.ie> wrote: > I strongly suspect it's not hanging. It's likely just stopped doing > things. Flip over to tty2 and you should have a text login. > > >From there, can you get the output of "systemctl status prefdm.service" > I suspect it has not even tried to start yet. > > Do a "systemctl start prefdm.service" and you should have your normal > logins. > > I suspect strongly this is simply the legacy non-LSB initscripts issue I > mentioned last week that is preventing the prefdm.service job from being > executed on boot.
BTW why not displaying a message "switch to tty2 for a login"? >> Failed to start LSB: Update the Intel / AMD CPU microcode [FAILED] > > That's likely because you do not have the microcode itself installed. > It's from a package in tainted so would not be installed by default. Yes it should. It suggest a tainted package but that's not a hard requirement. One can download it directly from intel.com.