<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:lucida console, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>ok, sorry i didnt update until now.</span></div><div><span>i traced back the previous problem to the nvidia drivers (or lack thereof) installing the akmod-nvidia packages solved the "no X" problem.</span></div><div><span>but now another problem surfaced, at the end of boot, the X display starts, i see the gnome bg for a few seconds but then i get a "system cant recover, contact a system administrator" error message, then the only option is a forced shutdown, cant change consoles or anything.</span></div><div><span>the stock 3.1.5-2 kernel still works.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>the whole /var/log/messages for one boot of the xen kernel:<br></span></div><div>http://pastebin.com/Eqfgd8gE (im sorry i didnt trim it, kinda new to it and dont know what is important and what isnt)<br></div> <div
style="font-family: lucida console, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Marko Ristola <marko.ristola@kolumbus.fi><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Carlos Felipe Santacruz <csantacruz63@yahoo.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "xen@lists.fedoraproject.org" <xen@lists.fedoraproject.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, December 7, 2011 3:48 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Fedora-xen] xen "broke" my system<br> </font> <br>On 12/06/2011 05:14 PM, Carlos Felipe Santacruz wrote:<br>> This is what happened: normally ran 'yum install xen' and that gave<br>> no problems, but then i rebooted to get to the xen kernel, it resulted<br>> on black
screen (could change consoles with Alt + F2 etc.) so i<br>> rebooted and tried the regular 3.1.2 kernel with same results.<br>> uninstalled xen with 'yum history undo' so it would also remove all<br>> dependencies then rebooted. nothing.<br>> anyone knows what could have caused this?<br>> im running f16 x86_64 on an asus g74sx-bbk7(core i7-2630qm, geforce gtx560m, 8GB DDR3 ram)<br><br>I understood your problem this way:<br>Booting works: You can switch consoles. Graphical mode or X doesn't work<br>because you have a black login screen (with or without Xen).<br>/var/log/messages and /var/log/Xorg.0.log might have some report of the failure.<br><br>You might still have a working pre-3.1.2 kernel in Grub2 menu around that works<br>as a temporary solution.<br><br>Are all your RPM packets up to date with "yum upgrade"?<br>Fedora Bugzilla is a good place to search and report these problems.<br>NVidia Open source Kernel module developers want to
get failure reports to fix<br>regressions and other problems.<br>Fedora test kernels are worth to check too: there might already be a fix coming.<br><br>Regards,<br>Marko Ristola<br><br>><br>><br>><br>> --<br>> xen mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:xen@lists.fedoraproject.org" href="mailto:xen@lists.fedoraproject.org">xen@lists.fedoraproject.org</a><br>> <a href="https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen" target="_blank">https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen</a><br><br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>