Bug 443228
| Summary: | Graphical install fails due to bad refresh rates | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Albert-Jan Yzelman <ajy777> |
| Component: | xorg-x11-drv-ati | Assignee: | Dave Airlie <airlied> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 10 | CC: | mcepl, vossman77, xgl-maint |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Triaged |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2009-12-18 06:06:58 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 235705 | ||
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Description
Albert-Jan Yzelman
2008-04-19 13:39:22 UTC
Thanks for the bug report. We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue. Please attach your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log) to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link below. Could you please also try to run without any /etc/X11/xorg.conf whatsoever and let X11 autodetect your display and video card? Attach to this bug /var/log/Xorg.0.log from this attempt as well, please. We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information. Thanks in advance. Thanks for the reply. I'll be back home in a couple of hours, and will try to boot from some live CD and get the config files; I would have attached them sooner, but I cannot get into a live shell due to this bug (SSH also fails, ethernet connection probably is not started). Also, when I press 'I' for interactive startup after the 'loading nash' thing, it still starts X without asking me. I consider this a flaw as well; should I report this separately or is there a good reason for doing this? Created attachment 303193 [details]
x configuration file after text-mode install
xorg.conf has been submitted. There is no Xorg.*.log in /var/log to be found; not after booting immediately after text-mode install, nor after deleting xorg.conf and rebooting. If X always creates a log file (even if it does not crash), this would mean X is never started and the system sort of hangs before that (although ctrl+alt+f1-8 switching is still possible, albeit does not show a login prompt, and ctrl+alt+del reboots nicely). If this is the case, please advice on how to proceed tracking down the real bug. Sorry, this is an installation issue, so then some logs would be available in /tmp/X* -- when running installation program and it crashes, switch to console (Alt+Ctrl+F2) and then copy content of /tmp somewhere (USB drive, Internet, other computer). X* is the file we are after. Created attachment 303366 [details]
The /tmp/X.log file created by the Anaconda installer
Note that Anaconda does *not* crash; the screen is just blank (presumably due
to a default too high refresh rate)
Created attachment 303367 [details]
The XConfig file generated by X during graphical install
Created attachment 303368 [details]
The Anaconda log
Note here that the log displays anaconda is at the welcome screen, presumably
just waiting, and not crashed in any way.
New info posted. Let me know if more is required. Does booting with 'xdriver=vesa' work around the problem? Yes, it does! Given the presence of a workaround (... and that we have drivers that require this every release :/), dropping to F9Target Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping A minor update: I have found that this issue persists in Fedora 10. Persists in Fedora 11 Alpha (also on i686). This message is a reminder that Fedora 10 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 10. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '10'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 10's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 10 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora please change the 'version' of this bug to the applicable version. If you are unable to change the version, please add a comment here and someone will do it for you. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Fedora 10 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-12-17. Fedora 10 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |