X Hang when starting machine

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Tue May 8 12:15:49 UTC 2012


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On 05/07/2012 11:06 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 05/08/2012 08:39 AM, Antonio Olivares wrote:
>> Dear folks,
>> 
>> For the past week or so, I have a machine running Fedora 16 and X worked
>> fine till a week or so ago.  I have started in level 3 and relabeled
>> everything(in case Selinux has a problem), but machine still hangs when
>> starting up.  I start in level 3 and type startx and I get Fallback mode
>> (Gnome 3).  If I start in gui mode I get a hang and cannot get to X.
>> Sometimes I am lucky to get X.  However booting with enforcing=0, X comes
>> up with no problem.
>> 
>> I have relabeled filesystem two times already and this continues to
>> happen.
>> 
>> Smolt Profile in case it is important
>> 
>> http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_6f209009-0c1d-4fe8-94e9-9dda0d19ac44
>
>> 
> Error 503 Service Unavailable
> 
>> 
>> I welcome ideas suggestions and comments.  I am hitting this bug on a
>> daily basis as my students use this machine for school work and it is not
>> working well.  My students are upset at me, because I have to add the
>> extra enforcing=0, when things should just work.
>> 
> 
> You don't say what video hardware or drivers are in use?
> 
> Have you tried "startkde" instead of "startx" from runlevel 3?
> 
> You said you saw another thread about selinux and X....but you didn't point
> to it. Another pair if eyes reading the same things can be helpful.
> 
> 
Could you attach a compressed "ausearch -i -m avc"
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