On 12/10/14 14:10, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
Christian Groessler writes: > To get the machine to boot again, I had to enter the BIOS, disable the > network card there, Hmmm... you could have tried with a single user mode bootstrap, that could have avoided you going to the BIOS.
That was in fact the first thing I tried.But the network interfaces are brought up in single user mode as well. So I got the same
hang and no prompt.(Why single user mode brings the network interfaces up is another dubious story...)
> Quite a dance instead of just typing "^C".... ^C could be unresponsive nevertheless, the process being stuck in kernel space and thus completely oblivious of the signals thrown at it.
This would be a different problem hinting at a kernel bug... regards, chris