No X in F10 beta, rawhide...

[Dave Airlie]

On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 22:30 -0600, kwhiskerz wrote:
> I had installed F10 alpha on both of my computers and have been using
> it for a while. All has been very good and I am very pleased with it.
> 
> This Wednesday morning I yum updated both systems. I noticed that
> there was a new X server, version 1.5.1-4 among the many 100s of MB of
> downloads. Sadly, there was an absence of the new Intel drivers that
> will enable the use of i915 modesetting with this great new X server.
> Oh well, it will come when it's ready.
> 
> This evening, I booted my desktop computer and the computer locked up
> at the point where plymouth ends and the X server starts to log in,
> via kdm. I could not even change to another virtual terminal. There
> was nothing I could do but Alt-SysRq.
> 
> I tried many times, using a slew of kernel options, like removing
> rhgb, appending vga=0x318, using nomodeset and enforcing=0. All
> variations failed. There was no way I could boot into X.
> 
> Then I tired the other computer. The same story. No X. Just a dark
> grey screen.
> 
> I tried switching to gdm. I tried reverting to X server 1..5.1-2,
> which worked just fine last night and this morning. I tried using the
> previous kernel. I tried using a full xorg.conf instead of the minimal
> xorg.conf that has been recommended recently (and worked great on both
> computers). I tried no xorg.conf at all. Still no X.
> 
> The problem appears not to be selinux, the usual culprit, nor the new
> kernel, nor the most recent X server. It is something else in this
> morning's spate of updates.
> 
> I can telinit 3, but not startx. What to do?
> 
> (The only way I am even able to write this message at all is that I
> still have Fedora 9 on a spare partition on the desktop computer. The
> laptop is now useless.)

You need to get the newest intel driver from koji or wait until rawhide
catches up.

I got caught by the rawhide compose happening between a libdrm and intel
driver update.

I think I needed more conflicts/requires.

Dave.