fc13 kernels

[Rob Healey]

Greetings:

I am having sincere problems with the Fc13 kernels and I am not sure why?

BTW, I have a 64bit system, so the kernels are also 64bit kernels.  On
kernel-2.6.32-0.33, I was not able to even install this one...

On kernels 2.6.32-0.48* and kerenl-2.6.32-0.51*, I can install them, and
then booting is what the problem comes in.  It gives me the three color
chasing bar, and it completes its cycle just fine.  It then flips to a black
screen with a flashing underline and nothing else.  I was wondering if it
just needed some time to time out some bugs, but nothing more than the black
screen...

I know that my system is not hard locked up because I can press
[Ctrl-Alt-Del], and it goes into reboot mode and shows everything that it is
shutting down....

Has anyone else had these same or similar problems as I have?

My installation history is:
1) install from FC12-Beta-x86_64 iso cdrom.  Updated to current FC12, then
updated to rawhide.  I tried installing hwccac? that was mentioned before,
and I can't seem to find the package anywhere.

I am using an Asus AMD K8 64-bit system.  If it makes a difference....

Sincerely yours,
Rob G. Healey

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Sat, 11/21/09, Rob Healey  wrote:
> From: Rob Healey 
> Subject: fc13 kernels
> To: "Fedora rawhide test list" 
> Date: Saturday, November 21, 2009, 6:04 PM
> Greetings:
>
> I am having sincere problems with the Fc13 kernels and I am
> not sure why?
>
> BTW, I have a 64bit system, so the kernels are also 64bit
> kernels.  On kernel-2.6.32-0.33, I was not able to even
> install this one...
>
> On kernels 2.6.32-0.48* and kerenl-2.6.32-0.51*, I can
> install them, and then booting is what the problem comes
> in.  It gives me the three color chasing bar, and it
> completes its cycle just fine.  It then flips to a black
> screen with a flashing underline and nothing else.  I was
> wondering if it just needed some time to time out some bugs,
> but nothing more than the black screen...
>
> I know that my system is not hard locked up because I can
> press [Ctrl-Alt-Del], and it goes into reboot mode and shows
> everything that it is shutting down....
>
> Has anyone else had these same or similar problems as I
> have?

Sure!  I hear you, I just did not want to post what you are posting now :(

I have to revert back to fc12 kernel to see a working screen :(, even at that, kde is not working correctly I click on konqueror nothing happens, I click on firefox nothing happens.  Sometimes I have to login as root to even get a screen :(.  It takes a bit of time to get things straightened out :)
> My installation history is:
> install from FC12-Beta-x86_64 iso cdrom.  Updated to
>
> current FC12, then updated to rawhide.  I tried installing
> hwccac? that was mentioned before, and I can't seem to
> find the package anywhere.

That is a typo :(

the proper name is hmaccalc :) Thanks Clyde and others for pointing out!

# yum install hmaccalc
should do the trick.
> I am using an Asus AMD K8 64-bit system.  If it makes a
> difference....

Nope, same behavior I have two x86_64 machines and two i686 machines with same behavior :(
> Sincerely yours,
> Rob G. Healey
>
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[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 18:31:28 -0800,
  Antonio Olivares  wrote:
> I have to revert back to fc12 kernel to see a working screen :(, even at that, kde is not working correctly I click on konqueror nothing happens, I click on firefox nothing happens.  Sometimes I have to login as root to even get a screen :(.  It takes a bit of time to get things straightened out :)

I am having a problem with encrypted partitions when booting with the
2.6.32. There is a problem with setting a file context and then with reading
the supplied key.

Firefox in F13 seems to now be trying to execute code on the stack. By
default selinux blocks this and then when firefox tries to execute the
code it segfaults.

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 06:04:28PM -0800, Rob Healey wrote:
> On kernels 2.6.32-0.48* and kerenl-2.6.32-0.51*, I can install
> them, and then booting is what the problem comes in.  It gives me
> the three color chasing bar, and it completes its cycle just
> fine.  It then flips to a black screen with a flashing underline
> and nothing else.  I was wondering if it just needed some time to
> time out some bugs, but nothing more than the black screen...
>
> I know that my system is not hard locked up because I can press
> [Ctrl-Alt-Del], and it goes into reboot mode and shows everything
> that it is shutting down....

It sounds that you are booting just fine but you have troubles with
video.  The first sanity check in such situation is to see if you
can boot to a shell prompt.  Drop from a boot line things like
"quiet" and "rhgb" (you can edit that, not permanently, from a grub
menu screen) and add "3" instead.  Do you get a login prompt?  If
not then when your screen goes away?  Does "nomodeset 3" change
anything and if not then what about "nomodeset 1"?  Once in shell
then looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log may bring some clues.  _After_
you checked that and saved a copy what are effects of 'startx' from
a shell prompt?  Could you login over a network when this is up?
Does selinux in a "permissive" state makes a difference?  Maybe you
do need "nomodeset" on your hardware?  If this is the case then you
are in a bugzilla time.

I have one machine where literally the last minute changes before
F12 release resulted in a necessity of "nohz=off" to make it work at
all.

Michal

[Bill Davidsen]

Rob Healey wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> I am having sincere problems with the Fc13 kernels and I am not sure why?
>
> BTW, I have a 64bit system, so the kernels are also 64bit kernels.  On 
> kernel-2.6.32-0.33, I was not able to even install this one...
>
> On kernels 2.6.32-0.48* and kerenl-2.6.32-0.51*, I can install them, and 
> then booting is what the problem comes in.  It gives me the three color 
> chasing bar, and it completes its cycle just fine.  It then flips to a 
> black screen with a flashing underline and nothing else.  I was 
> wondering if it just needed some time to time out some bugs, but nothing 
> more than the black screen...
>
> I know that my system is not hard locked up because I can press 
> [Ctrl-Alt-Del], and it goes into reboot mode and shows everything that 
> it is shutting down....
>
> Has anyone else had these same or similar problems as I have?
>
> My installation history is:
> install from FC12-Beta-x86_64 iso cdrom.  Updated to current FC12,
>
> then updated to rawhide.  I tried installing hwccac? that was mentioned 
> before, and I can't seem to find the package anywhere.
>
> I am using an Asus AMD K8 64-bit system.  If it makes a difference....

When I had a similar problem I added "vga 0x318" to the boot parameters. You can 
try it by editing before you let the boot run, and dropping quiet and rhgb may 
cause some useful info to appear (or not).