Fedora: No Boot = r8169: eth0: link up

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engelbma

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Me again, :D

Ok I think I broke something (again):o
My problem "might be" related due to a previous post = http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=195385

I was updating via "update manager" with various repositories disabled as mentioned by the experts. Everything was working fine, shutdown, go to work, come home, bootup and then I get this r8169: eth0: link up. No matter which Fedora option I go to in GRUB, no joy, just r8169: eth0:

Thankfully I have dual boot and that is how I am possible to connect via Ubuntu on a second HD via GRUB.

Please help.
 
Posting from Fedora :D

Had to do a lot of reading and quite confused at this stage, tried a number of things but the important ones were as follow.

From error went to DOS mode = Ctrl + Alt + F2
as root: cd /etc/x11/
then: rm xorg. conf

I am not quite sure if this helped or made things worse? Then after numerous reboots and trying every GRUB option.

tried 'yum update' and various package clean up options and still no luck.

Finally figured there was a kernel NVIDIA driver issue thus 'yum install kmod-nvidia-PAE" then reboot and thus far all looks OK.

Phew this was close, really thought I would have to format HD etc.
 
Next time if something like this happens you should disable all your modules, everything (there should be a guide on the Fedora wiki on how to do this).
From network interface right down to you X server and related modules.
All you will need is the keyboard.

This way you will be able to boot into a very limited minimal system (if this fails then it is a kernel issue) for some troubleshooting.

Now start adding one module after another (modprobe) until you find the culprit. This will make troubleshooting far easier and leave you more sane.
:p
 
the following files might help you start to get a feel of what went wrong: /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /var/log/dmesg

They should provide some clues as to where you should be looking. for instance in your case it may be a case that something was happening to X
 
It's a problem with the ethernet driver you had, which is known not to play nicely with the kernel. It looks like you managed to install or upgrade to a newer kernel, which did the trick.

Deleting xorg.conf just gets rid of all the X (graphics) display settings. What made you decide to delete it?
 
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