Bug 168765

Summary: X fails to start with memory problems
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Knut-Håvard Aksnes <kna>
Component: xorg-x11Assignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
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Description Knut-Håvard Aksnes 2005-09-20 07:14:55 UTC 
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050909 Fedora/1.0.6-1.2.fc3 Firefox/1.0.6

Description of problem:
X startup fails on FC4 after upgrading using yum.
The machine worked well with FC3 but a few days ago I uppgraded to FC4. The machine still worked well so I did a yum update. Yesterday I rebooted, after that X11 fails at startup with a garbled display.
Output from /sbin/lspci -vvn and the logfile /var/log/Xorg.0.log are attached
The problem is the same running under the kernels 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 and 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.48.1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Booting the system 


Actual Results:  Garbled display

Expected Results:  Login window should be visible at the centre of my display

Additional info:

The system is practically useless as it stands (I can log into it using ssh) 
One of the problems being that yum/rpm lacks a revert to earlier version option.
rpm --oldpackage isn't safe for applications like X11 where config files might be converted during an upgrade.
Comment 1 Knut-Håvard Aksnes 2005-09-20 07:16:20 UTC 
Created attachment 119013 [details]
Log file from X server
Comment 2 Knut-Håvard Aksnes 2005-09-20 07:17:36 UTC 
Created attachment 119014 [details]
Output from /sbin/lspci -vvn
Comment 3 Mike A. Harris 2005-09-20 08:37:51 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 168752 ***