F13-problem with graphical boot: box hangs before gdm greeter appears

Kamil Paral kparal at redhat.com
Mon Mar 29 16:49:36 UTC 2010


----- "Joachim Backes" <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Having a  video card of type Nvidia GeForce FX5200 (PCI), and running
> my 
> F13  with nouveau.
> 
> 1. If booting graphically (RHGB), then my box *hangs* immediately
> before 
> the gdm greeter should appear. No input possible, only Ctrl+Alt+Del
> for 
>   reboot (If pressing ESC during the RHGB boot, I can get rid from
> this 
>   behaviour, similarly to boot without RHGB). This happens since the 
> yesterday's (friday) updates.
> 
> 2. No such behaviour if booting completely without RHGB. Then the gdm
> login runs properly.
> 
> Anybody has an explanation for this? Any comments are welcome.

Solution here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577789


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