after upgrading fedora rawhide this morning, no graphical desktop

[Pete Travis]

On Mar 13, 2014 12:58 PM, "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2014, Kevin Martin wrote:
>
> > On 03/13/2014 07:57 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >
> > >   recently, i upgraded my ASUS G74S laptop to fedora rawhide and it
> > > was running nicely. then this morning, i did another "yum update",
> > > which appeared to update well over 200 packages (including a slightly
> > > newer kernel), after which, when i booted, i had no graphical desktop
> > > anymore, just the little blue and white fedora logo.
> > >
> > >   i can still switch to VC2 and log in at the command line (where i am
> > > now), so i can certainly check log files, but i don't see anything
> > > immediately amiss.
> > >
> > >   i rebooted both to the earlier rawhide kernel, and even back to the
> > > latest fedora 20 official kernel -- same result, the fedora logo in
> > > the middle of the screen on VC1, but the ability to log in on another
> > > virtual console.
> > >
> > >   has anyone else run into this? i have an nvidia graphics card, and
> > > am running the nouveau driver. i'll keep poking around the log files,
> > > and if you have any suggestions, i'm all ears.
> > >
> > > rday
> > >
> > Hmm, sounds similar to what I'm experiencing.  When you go into VC2
> > what does "lsmod | grep nouveau" show?  I've found that I've been
> > having to manually "modprobe nouveau modeset=1" since doing my
> > update about 4 days ago.  I'm not sure why nouveau won't load and I
> > find that if I don't set the modeset=1 when I do the manual modprobe
> > that I still can't get X.
>
>   hmmmm ... it's possible this is not related to rawhide at all, and
> is due to something silly i did earlier this morning. could the
> following be the cause?
>
>   in order to install drupal 8.x on my fedora (rawhide) system, i had
> to disable selinux ("setenforce 0"). i *think* that while selinux was
> thus disabled, i may have done "yum update", which would have of
> course updated those 200+ packages while my system was in permissive
> mode. once i saw i had a new kernel due to the update, i of course
> rebooted, which rebooted with selinux back in enforcing mode, and the
> problems started. simply putting selinux back into permissive mode
> fixed everything.
>
>   i'm by no means an selinux expert -- is that how i caused my
> problem?
>
> rday
>
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Drupal should not only install but also function (given appropriate
labeling) with SELinux enforcing - as should any package. If you can't even
install the package, chances are there is a packaging problem that should
be corrected.

This is where working with test@ to verify and isolate comes in :)

--Pete
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