Re: fedora-xo 20090510 does not start X server
by Mikus Grinbergs
> Can you try adding a "rootdelay=300" to the kernel command line in the
> olpc.fth and see if that helps the issues your seeing when you have
> usb devices attached?
Added that to three different XO-1 machines:
* rawhide-xo 20090416 (USB): This system was giving me lots of
trouble this morning: first with stalls during boot-up at the
"unknown filesystem" message, and later in the morning with stalls
during boot-up after showing the "Loading ramdisk" message. Just
now did multiple boot-ups after adding "rootdelay=300". When I had
taken the system down with 'Restart', boot-up came up into Sugar the
way it was supposed to.
But when I then took the system down with 'Shutdown', the system
would always stall during boot-up after showing the "Loading
ramdisk" message. Had to completely re-flash that system (I now
installed rawhide-xo 20090426, since that was the most recent
rawhide-xo that worked). On the first couple of boot-up attempts,
the new build stalled at the "unknown filesystem" message. By
repeatedly trying, I got past that point and added "rootdelay=300".
After that, it did not stall with the "unknown filesystem" message.
This system still all too often gets the boot-up stall after showing
the "Loading ramdisk" message. Luckily, pulling the USB devices
(and trying and trying) eventually allowed me to boot-up. Since it
takes me more than an hour of my time to re-flash (and re-customize)
the system once I can't make headway against these boot-up stalls,
please don't ask me again to try to create such error situations.
* rawhide-xo 20090426 (nothing in USB sockets): This system has
not recently experienced any stalls during boot-up. But this
morning boot-up on this system had trouble starting Sugar (but not
Gnome). Added "rootdelay=300" and now several boot-ups went
correctly into Sugar. [This experience shows the __difficulty__ of
looking for patterns of behavior -- I have no idea whether Sugar now
being able to start easily was happenstance, or was caused by
something having changed within this system.]
* rawhide-xo 20090510 (USB): The last time this system showed me
the "unknown filesystem" message was once - right after installing
20090510. Since then, boot-up has not stalled for me on this
system, neither before nor after adding "rootdelay=300". But for me
20090510 does not start the X server, whether or not "rootdelay=300"
has been added.
Bottom line: Seems to help; does not hurt; needs more experience.
mikus
15 years
Re: fedora-xo 20090510 does not start X server
by Peter Robinson
Hi Mikus,
>> I would probably file one against either the kernel or mkinitrd. The
>> kernel guys are generally pretty quick to respond and reallocate it as
>> appropriate. The other thing to do is put the bug as a blocker to
>> "F11Blocker" as all of these are regressions from the last week or so
>> and IMO are definitely a blocker.
>
> The "unknown filesystem type" error is definitely not a regression from the
> last week or so. I first told someone about seeing this in mid-April,
> meaning I would have been running fedora-xo 20090416 (or even earlier) when
> I grumbled.
Can you try adding a "rootdelay=300" to the kernel command line in the
olpc.fth and see if that helps the issues your seeing when you have
usb devices attached?
Peter
15 years
fedora-xo 20090510 does not start X server
by Mikus Grinbergs
Installed ~cjb/rawhide-xo 20090510.img with 'copy-nand' onto an XO-1
system. Booted. Boot process went normally up to the point where X
would be used to draw the background and the "user logon" screen.
Instead, the contents of the text console were repeatedly shown,
blanked, shown, blanked, etc. - as the system repeatedly tried to
start X, but failed. Eventually, the boot process stalled at that
point.
By switching to another text console, I was able to log in and
examine the contents of memory. The only thing of interest was many
many copies (to all intents and purposed identical) of Xorg._.log in
/var/log . Copied the most recent of those, and put it into
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500086 , which I created
for that purpose.
mikus
15 years
Re: fedora-xo 20090510 does not start X server
by Mikus Grinbergs
> * Even when haldaemon does start, X doesn't seem to find any pointer
> devices. Hard to find out more about this while X is segfaulting;
> I guess it's possible that the segfault is related..
Compared /etc/X11/xorg.conf in rawhide-xo 20090426 (X ok on boot)
with that same file in rawhide-xo 20090510 (X fails on boot).
The contents of that file are identical in the two builds.
Also compared /var/log/Xorg._.log in rawhide-xo 20090510 (for which
I wrote BZ 500086) against the equivalent file in rawhide-xo
20090426 (on which X worked) -- BOTH log files had the line: "(II)
Cannot locate a core pointer device." Yet in 20090426, for both
Sugar and Gnome, the XO-1 touchpad (and also an external USB mouse)
work fine -- making me think that this informational line in the
xorg.log is not significant.
mikus
15 years
Re: fedora-xo 20090507 does not boot on XO-1
by Mikus Grinbergs
> I've been working with the plymouth guys to get the equivalent of the
> olpc boot anim into plymouth. Not quite there yet, but hopefully
> before too long we'll have something native we can use in Fedora.
See 'Subject:' this version does not currently boot at all for me.
If the problem was caused by instabilities in Rawhide itself - o.k.,
I would expect someone soon to be looking to fix it.
But if not being able to boot 20090507 were to be associated with
the XO environment, have we gotten away from the 'Subject:', and
instead into the arrangement of the deck chairs on the Titanic?
mikus
15 years
fedora-xo 20090507 does not boot on XO-1
by Mikus Grinbergs
I get the same result (XO-1 goes completely unresponsive at about
the point where it should show the logon screen; preceded by
"pulsing" of a blank screen) when I boot from an USB stick created
by 'livecd-iso-to-disk' from ~cjb/rawhide-xo 20090507.iso
[However (when booting from the USB stick), instead of the
"non-pretty" boot-up messages scrolling by, I am entertained by an
image of what looks like a penis inside a hand-waving hot dog bun.]
mikus
15 years
fedora-xo 20090507 does not boot on XO-1
by Mikus Grinbergs
Using 'copy-nand', flashed ~cjb/fedora-xo 20090507.img to nand.
Booted. At the point where the login screen normally shows up, the
(blank) screen seemed to "pulse" repetitively (possibility:
something invisible was started, crashed, started, crashed, etc).
When "pulsing" eventually stopped, the screen was blank (black) and
the XO-1 was completely unresponsive - only thing that would work
was the button to power off. {Last "boot-up" line that showed was
"starting sshd: [OK]" }
mikus
p.s. When I tried to boot with an USB hub (with devices) plugged
in, "boot-up" would usually (but not always) stall earlier, after
the line "creating devices".
15 years
