"vt: argh, driver_data is null" message hangs on shutdown

[Rene Salmon]

Hi,  

Though I would report back that upgrading to the latest rawhide (this
morning) did fix the problem. I no longer get the "driver_data is null"
message when I shutdown. 

A couple of things:

1)I did not really upgrade I did a clean new install.

2)After the clean install the machine will not boot it will hang
at the very beginning with this message.

"unable to open an initial console" is
displayed, then a few SELinux context messages, then it just hangs.

This is a reported bug 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=133684

solution to this that worked for me was to add these lines to the 
/etc/yaboot.conf file.

sysmap=/boot/System.map-xxxx
initrd=/boot/initrd-xxxxx

Now a have a happy Mac running linux.

Thanks for the help.

Rene



On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 08:38:50AM +1100, Colin Charles wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 12:04 -0600, Rene Salmon wrote:
> 
> > Would the 2.6.3 patch be included in  2.6.8?  I looked in 
> 
> Try upgrading to the latest rawhide, and seeing if this gets fixed
> (in fact, so much within Fedora has changed from then, you'd probably
> want to yum update/upgrade your way thru[1])
> 
> [1] - and yes, its a painless upgrade. Just point to a mirror of rawhide
> latest, yum update (or upgrade) and all the packages install fine in a
> couple of hours (for an everything install)
> -- 
> Colin Charles, byte at aeon.com.my
> http://www.bytebot.net/
> "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, 
> then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi

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