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

Renato Caldas seventhguardian at gmail.com
Tue Mar 30 07:36:36 UTC 2010


On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Renato Caldas
<seventhguardian at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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..

Moreover, gdm-2.29.92-6.fc13.x86_64 from koji tries to pull i686
dependencies... :)

Cheers,
  Renato

> Cheers,
>  Renato
>
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>>
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