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

Renato Caldas seventhguardian at gmail.com
Tue Mar 30 07:31:07 UTC 2010


On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Joachim Backes
<joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote:
> On 03/29/2010 06:49 PM, Kamil Paral wrote:
>>
>> ----- "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
>
> Bingo, works for me :-)

By the way, any idea why gdm-2.29.92-5.fc13 has the debug messages
turned on? I'm trying to figure out a similar problem with my GeForce
6150, but the logs are filled with gdm stuff..

Cheers,
  Renato

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