Fedora Test 2 will not log in to Gnome?

[Jim Cornette]

The bug was with an:

EtherLink XL PCI
3C900B-TPO
03-0147-000
REV-A

bugs 104793 through 104795 contain information regarding the check cable 
and avalanche effects for the NIC card.

Jim

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Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 03:07, Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
>>Sean Earp wrote:
>>
>>>Hello all-
>>>
>>>I have not been able to install Fedora Test 2 since it came out (RH 9 
>>>and Severn Beta 1 worked just fine).  Today I tried installation with 
>>>the updated Anaconda, and it works. (great!)
>>>
>>>However, on the first boot after installation, I can not log on to the 
>>>Gnome desktop.  KDE works just fine.   The interesting thing is that I 
>>>chose the customized install, and had Gnome checked, and KDE UNCHECKED. 
>>> Just in case I missed something, I have formatted the drive 3 times and 
>>>reinstalled, making SURE that gnome was selected, and KDE was not.  When 
>>>I attempt to log in to gnome, the screen exhibits the same behavior as 
>>>if i choose the "restart X Server" option on the login screen.  Is 
>>>anyone else experiencing this?  Can someone give me the command line 
>>>option to verify that Gnome is even installed? (I'm a linux newbie, so 
>>>be gentle)  Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks,
>>>
>>>-Sean
>>>
>>>
>>
>>When I installed Severn beta1, I could not get GNOME to get further than 
>>the splash screen startup. This problem was related to the interaction 
>>with my 3Com ethernet. After the card was replaced with a 2 yr newer 
>>3com NIC GNOME, Mozilla and a host of other problems went away.
>>
>>My guess is that GNOME is outputting to /dev/lockup (in my case it was 
>>my NIC). Basically, I assume that the program is outputting, but not 
>>even to a bit bucket (AKA - like windows blue screen.)
> 
> 
> This is very interesting. Was this a 3c590 NIC?
> 
> If so, i'm getting the same on my card. See
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98832
> 
> It seems to be a kudzu bug, but bill couldn't reproduce it on his 3c590.
> Getting more data might make this fixable.
> 
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