Latest Xorg update breaks my GUI

Mark Haney mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Fri Jul 11 12:39:30 UTC 2008


Antonio M wrote:
> 2008/7/11 Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org>:
>> I upgraded my system to the latest Xorg last night and after a reboot had a
>> major problem.  This box is an F9 box (An older HP with intel graphics)
>> connected to an HP vf52 flatpanel monitor.
>>
>> On reboot, the arrow and 'Fedora wait circle' appeared on the screen, then
>> my screen went black, the arrow returned, ad infinitum.
>>
>> I initially thought the upgrade had broken the setup, so I rebooted into RL
>> 3 and resetup the desktop config.  The card and monitor were detected
>> correctly and the screen resolution was available and I selected it.
>> (1024X768).  Still, on reboot, same problem.  X would start (presumably) and
>> restart with no complete loading of the GUI.  I've looked in Xorg's log
>> file, but don't see any error messages that might clue me in.
>>
>> Can someone else shed some light on this?
>>
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>>
>> Mark Haney
>> Sr. Systems Administrator
>> ERC Broadband
>> (828) 350-2415
>>
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> 
> See my post dated July 7: Latest updates break graphic start of Fedora
> And see Bugzilla Bug 454055: Latest updates prevent graphic login
> 				
> Wellcome onboard!!!!

Antonio, I've not yet tried starting X from RL 3 yet, I just did 
everything from the CLI in level 3.  I will however try that shortly. 
I'll also check the bug and add myself to it, since I don't want to have 
to explain to my kids how to change runlevels just yet.


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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
(828) 350-2415

Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support




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