preupgrade F15 fails

James Laska jlaska at redhat.com
Tue Apr 19 16:54:49 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 10:40 -0400, sean darcy wrote:
> On 04/18/2011 02:45 PM, James Laska wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 14:37 -0400, sean darcy wrote:
> >> On 04/18/2011 02:12 PM, sean darcy wrote:
> >>> I ran preupgrade-cli on F14 x86-64. Everything seemed to work.
> >>>
> >>> grub.conf:
> >>>
> >>> title Upgrade to Fedora 15 (Lovelock)
> >>> 	kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade
> >>> ks=hd:UUID=78716504-df9a-43a7-9a1c-d37c87ec1fbd:/upgrade/ks.cfg
> >>> 	initrd /upgrade/initrd.img
> >>>
> >>> and the UUID points to /boot
> >>>
> >>> But on reboot, there's a long (1-2 minute) blank screen, followed by a
> >>> black and white checkerboard.
> >>>
> >>> This box has:
> >>> AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1055T Processor.
> >>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce
> >>> 6600] (rev a2)
> >>>
> >>> Not very exotic.
> >>>
> >>> Is this supposed to work?
> >>>
> >>> sean
> >>>
> >>
> >> Redid preupgrade-cli with --vnc. Still a messed up local screen, but I
> >> can get in by vnc. Seems to be working.
> >>
> >> Let's hope X works on reboot!
> >
> > You could also start preupgrade with basic video graphics by adding boot
> > options "xdriver=vesa nomodeset".  It's likely something with your video
> > hardware, and not a bug in preupgrade.
> >
> 
> Well on reboot, startx generates the checkerboard screen, and locks up 
> the console. I can boot to initlevel 3, but after startx I can only 
> access the machine by ssh.
> 
> My video hardware - geforce 6600 on an amd 890 chipset - isn't exotic. 
> nouveau worked on fc13 and fc14.
> > Additional items to consider if X continues to not work post-upgrade ...
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Xorg_problems

We have positive test results from 6600's during the Nouveau test day
[1].  Of course things may have regressed, or there could be something
specific about your system causing the failure.  I'm only finding one
6600 related bug against xorg-x11-drv-nouveau in bugzilla, and it
appears unrelated to your issue.

Unless someone else has experiences to share, can you follow the debug
guide [2] and log this into bugzilla?

Thanks,
James

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-22_Nouveau
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Xorg_problems
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