Bug 133991
| Summary: | Unable to debug random X failures | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Matthew Booth <mbooth> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 4.0 | CC: | nobody+pnasrat |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-09-28 21:11:16 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Booting with 'linux nokill' will let you access things. Unfortunately, we have to kill processes to be able to unmount filessystems and let you reboot cleanly in most cases. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 Description of problem: I have tried to install RHEL4 beta 1 on 2 different machines now and experienced X failures. After probing for video, monitor, mouse the X server fails to start. The two machines have very different hardware, including different graphics cards (matrox and nvidia). On the second machine, I ran the installer and X failed, I allowed it to reboot and did exactly the same again and X did not fail. I am unable to debug the failures, because immediately they have occurred anaconda exists. An X log which might give a clue to the cause is reported to have been written to /tmp/X.log, but I am unable to access it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start installing RHEL4 Beta 1. 2. Hope that X fails to start this time. Actual Results: System exits. Expected Results: System allows an opportunity to examine log files from failed X startup. Additional info: