Bug 199518

Summary:	Firstboot fails to start
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	G.Wolfe Woodbury <redwolfe>
Component:	firstboot	Assignee:	Chris Lumens <clumens>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
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Description G.Wolfe Woodbury 2006-07-20 03:05:24 UTC

Description of problem:
Firstboot fails to start in graphical mode and fails to start text mode.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firstboot-1.4.13-1


How reproducible:
not checked

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install using boot.iso and NFS from local repository (rawhide 2007-07-19)
2. unselect RHGB in software selection
3. install and reboot
  
Actual results:
Firstboot fails to start with default VESA config on several attempts
does not attempt firstboot-tui
/tmp/firstboot-crash.log contains
|Traceback (most recent call last):
|  File "/usr/sbin/firstboot", line 111, in ?
|    RaiseRuntimeError, "Could not start any firstboot interface"
|RuntimeError: Could not start any firstboot interface


Expected results:
even without RHGB, firstboot should start or fall back to the TUI


Additional info:

work1.private testbed machine: Celeron (Coppermine) @ 600MHz   256MB RAW
  MSI mobo based on VIA chipset
  Trident Cyberblade/i1 on mobo    RTL-8139 NIC on mobo

Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2006-07-20 14:30:19 UTC

Are there any X logs in /tmp?  If so, please attach them to this bug so we can
figure out why X is not starting.  For firstboot, it probably should boot into
the text interface if the graphical one does fail to start.  Thanks for the
suggestion.

Comment 2 G.Wolfe Woodbury 2006-07-23 02:58:42 UTC

With today's rawhide (2006-07-22) I could not reproduce this bug.

I unchecked RHGB as usual and installed.  The only problem was that I had to
"move aside" /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/localuser.sh (as mentioned as a cure for a
gdm bug in the test list.)

Firstboot came up and worked with X-windows just fine.  It did dump the
soundcard module and the display module is currently disabled, so everything
mostly worked.

I'd suggest closing this off with a "RAWHIDE" disposition.