Hanging at Enterprise Volume Management

[HiRez_L]

I updated Kubuntu last night, and after rebooting, it hung at "Starting Enterprise Volume Management System" . . . I let it sit all night, still hung there. I've searched the forums for a similar problem, haven't found anything. I tried restarting, which didn't help, also restarting in recovery mode with the current kernel, also still hangs at the EVM loading. I have not yet tried reloading Kubuntu or recovery mode and choosing the older kernel. If I am going to have to reinstall Kubuntu, that's hardly any better than running Windows, is it? Also, is Enterprise Volume Management necessary for a system on a small home LAN? Can I somehow stop this service from running every time it boots? I also get a failure in RAID every boot, and there is no RAID on this system, so I'd like to disable this as well.

Thanks,

Rez

[HiRez_L]

Re: Hanging at Enterprise VOlume Management

If it makes any difference, the system is Dell Optiplex GX110, PIII 933, 512MB RAM, 10GB HD . . . Kubuntu was installed and running fine off a Dapper 6.06 LiveCD, had been running for days with no problems until I ran the updates last night. I don't remember choosing anything about EVM in the updates, I was trying to get MP3's to play, so mostly I was installing xine, xmms, stuff like that. Maybe I have a problem with my repositories, because some of the sites I was looking at said to install the w32codecs package to fix the not playing mp3's thing, but I could not find this package in kadept.

[HiRez_L]

Re: Hanging at Enterprise Volume Management

Tried recovery booting into the older kernel as well, no joy.

[HiRez_L]

Re: Hanging at Enterprise Volume Management

Well, I'm not getting any help here. Maybe it's time to blow it away and try SUSE.