Bug 291611

Summary: Login screen does not appear at the end of a boot
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Bruce Orchard <orchard>
Component: gdmAssignee: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 7CC: phorgan1, triage, xgl-maint
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Description Bruce Orchard 2007-09-14 20:56:18 UTC
Description of problem:
At the end of a boot, the gdm login screen does not appear.  The screen stays blank.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 7 with all patches through today (Sept 14, 2007)

How reproducible:
Almost every time (it worked correctly once)

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Reboot
2.  Let reboot finish

  
Actual results:
A blank screen

Expected results:
A screen with a login screen


Additional info:

The display worked correctly during anaconda, firstboot, and rhgb.  

Bug 241498 is similar, but not quite the same.

Comment 1 Bruce Orchard 2007-09-14 20:57:48 UTC
Created attachment 196201 [details]
Output from lspci

Comment 2 Bruce Orchard 2007-09-14 20:58:39 UTC
Created attachment 196211 [details]
/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Comment 3 Bruce Orchard 2007-09-14 21:00:21 UTC
Created attachment 196221 [details]
/etc/sysconfig/hwconf

Comment 4 Bruce Orchard 2007-09-14 21:01:37 UTC
Created attachment 196231 [details]
/var/log/Xorg.0.log

Comment 5 Bruce Orchard 2007-09-14 21:08:57 UTC
When I disable gdm in /etc/inittab so that the system comes up with a text
login, that works OK.  If I then run startx, X starts correctly.

Comment 6 Adam Jackson 2007-10-22 15:50:35 UTC
I blame gdm...

Comment 7 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 14:21:36 UTC
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Comment 8 Bug Zapper 2008-06-17 02:24:05 UTC
Fedora 7 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on June 13, 2008. 
Fedora 7 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not 
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