Fedora-15-i386-netinst.iso problems

[Philip Rhoades]

James,


On 2011-05-07 01:36, James Laska wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 23:29 +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>> People,
>>
>> On my Gateway LT30 netbook, I am still getting similar problems to the
>> one I got after the Beta XFCE Live CD version install to HD.  This time
>> I tried installing using the Fedora-15-i386-netinst.iso from a USB stick
>> doing:
>>
>> 1. a minimal system
>> and
>> 2. a Graphical Desktop System
>>
>> 1. I was able to install the minimal system OK and then setup networking
>> and install:
>>
>> - Xorg
>> - vesa driver
>> - fb driver
>>
>> and groupinstall XFCE.
>>
>> However I kept getting "/dev/fb0" does not exist errors (it does exist)
>> when trying to start X.
>
> Make sure you installed the appropriate xorg-x11-drv-* package that
> matches your hardware.  Does /var/log/Xorg.0.log provide any additional
> guidance about what might be missing/broken?


Now that I have re-installed I can't look at the log file but from 
memory it didn't have anything much use in it but see below . .


>> 2. The Graphical Desktop version takes a lot longer to install (I think
>> there should be a "light" graphical install equivalent to the Live CD
>> version) but it eventually finishes however on rebooting I get:
>
> As I'm sure you know, it takes longer because it's installing more
> packages.  Comparing install time from a live image and a real install
> is comparing apples and oranges.  The cool thing about live images, is
> all the dependency resolution and package installation is done when the
> image is created.  The live install just slaps that down onto the
> system.  The drawback/benefit (depending on your point of view) is there
> is no install-time package customization.


I did know all that - the point I was trying to make is that it would be 
nice to have a much "lighter" graphical install.


> During a normal installation, the dependency resolution and package
> install happens as you install the system.  And depending on the
> packages you choose, disk speed, network speed etc... it can take
> longer.
>
>> Starting sm-client			[OK]
>> 					[OK]
>> Mounting other filesystems: mount: devpts already mounted or /dev/pts busy
>> mount: sysfs already mounted or /sys busy
>> 					[FAILED]
>
> Not sure if this is already filed, but we'd need to track this is a
> distinct bug report.
>
>> Starting PC-SC Smartcrd (pcscd)		[OK]
>> 					[OK]
>> Reloading sendmail			[OK]
>> Reloading sm-client			[OK]
>>
>> and then hangs again (very much like what I got after the Beta XFCE Live
>> CD version install to HD).
>
> What can you determine the system is doing at this point?  Do you get
> login shells on other tty's?


Interestingly (I didn't even bother to check this before) I do have 
logins on the other tty's (even though tty1 is completely unresponsive) 
and the network is running so I can do local and remote logins but 
something obviously hasn't finished properly - df gives:

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs                 9851308   3500900   5849988  38% /
udev                    501476         0    501476   0% /dev
tmpfs                   508372         0    508372   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                   508372       676    507696   1% /run
/dev/sda7              9851308   3500900   5849988  38% /
tmpfs                   508372         0    508372   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs                   508372         0    508372   0% /media
/dev/sda7              9851308   3500900   5849988  38% /tmp
/dev/sda7              9851308   3500900   5849988  38% /var/tmp
/dev/sda7              9851308   3500900   5849988  38% /home

I have different linuxes in different partitions and the grub2 setup for 
this one is now:

menuentry "/dev/sda7 Fedora 15" {
         set root=(hd0,7)
         linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38.5-22.fc15.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/sda7
         initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.38.5-22.fc15.i686.PAE.img
}

- I think I have had problems with PAE kernels before on this machine?

> Do you get more info if you boot without
> "rhgb quiet"?  What is your default systemd start-up
> (`ll /lib/systemd/system/default.target`)?


lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 16 May  5 19:58 
/lib/systemd/system/default.target -> graphical.target


> Can you login remotely when
> the hang occurs, to see what the system is doing?


Yes and trying to startx gives the same problem as before - from 
/var/log/Xorg.0.log:

[ 20014.264] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fbdev_drv.so
[ 20014.264] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfbdevhw.so
[ 20014.320] (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such device
[ 20014.320] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev
[ 20014.321] (II) UnloadModule: "vesa"
[ 20014.321] (II) Unloading vesa
[ 20014.321] (II) UnloadModule: "fbdev"
[ 20014.321] (II) Unloading fbdev
[ 20014.321] (II) UnloadModule: "fbdevhw"
[ 20014.321] (II) Unloading fbdevhw
[ 20014.321] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
[ 20014.321]
Fatal server error:
[ 20014.321] no screens found

- again, /dev/fb0 does actually exist . .

Thanks,

Phil.
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