Okay... this scares me! I can login to the GUI, I backed up some new stuff.
Thenwent to a tty.... no problem with that. I then logged out and went to
the login screen and hit cntrl-alt-f1. everything blanked out. then I tried
to go back to the GUI but it won't. I'm thinking the computer is screwed up.
Comments? Advice?
:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

> well this is interesting.... I reboot the machine and at the login screen
> went to tty1 to check if it got an ip address. Well, it wouldn't type. Then
> a message appeared saying:
>
>   BUG: soft lockup- CPU#0 stuck for 24s! [Xorg: 1465]
>
> and every now and then it would say that again. sometimes it would say:
>
>      BUG: soft lockup- CPU#0 stuck for 24s! [Kworker/0:2.68]
>
> actually I think the decimal is just a character that isn't showing up
> fully because at another line that appeared the decimalwas like a dot
> towards the top of the line and there were lots of characters that weren't
> all there.
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
> n Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> sorry.... I had to go to work...... now back to the problem!
>> unfortunately everyone is in bed but me. is there a way to get the router
>> to give ip addresses without rebooting? the computer isn't the fastest to
>> boot (it was a vista machine). WHile I was at work I was told to check that
>> the cable didn't go bad so whe I got home tonight I tried another cable
>> praying that was the problem. Unfortunately not!
>> Oh.... I think you guys misunderstood.... I was saying 'got it' to
>> Gilbert (the message before my last one.
>>
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>