Cannot login to F15 without nomodeset

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Wed Apr 27 12:22:34 UTC 2011


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On 04/27/2011 02:45 AM, Per Bothner wrote:
> On 04/26/2011 11:22 PM, Manilal K M wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>    I have upgraded my desktop to Fedora 15 through YUM. The machine
>> boots fine, but after starting all the services it hangs with a blue
>> screen and the login screen doesn't appear.
> 
> I ran into some similar problems.  I don't remember exactly what
> I did (lot of back and forth and futzing with systemd levels,
> among other things), but there were definitely some SELinux problems.
> (If you see GoogleChrome crashing, it's probably SELinux.)
> Not sure how to get the SELinux alert browser in text mode.
> 
You could try with permissive mode, by adding enforcing=0 to the kernel
boot line in grub, to see if this is an SELinux problem.  A new SELinux
policy package has been released in Koji with some more fixes.
> (I'm still having problems with symlinks from /var/www/html
> into /home.  The fix that worked on F13 and F14 no longer works,
> and the SeLinux Alert Browser isn't as helpful as it used to be.)
Per Bothner, send me the AVC's you are struggling with and I will see if
I can help you, also the alert that is not being helpful.
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