Bug 471973

Created attachment 323814 [details]
Dmesg for Dell 510m running above F9

Cups is the last service started before X so this is probably a problem starting X.

Could you:
Boot into level 3 (add " 3 " to the kernel line)
Login and manually run "X"
If it fails then it is X.
They might appreciate a log: "X -verbose 1000000 2> xorg.log"

You can also become root and run "system-config-display --reconfig"
and then "init 5" which could fix the problem for you.

This sounds sort of like a duplicate of bug 471498

Would you mind updating to the latest version of plymouth and then running:

sudo /usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd

to see if that fixes your problem?

To Charlie Brej :
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Fedora 10 Preview Live Usb booted fine in level 3.
But level 5 transition didn't work after startx or telinit 5 or init 5.

You can find the following attachments (obtained with command 'X -verbose):

- xorg.level3.log and xorg.level5.log files (for both levels) shows at line 267  
the following failure :
"EE) intel(0): Failed to pin front buffer: Cannot allocate memory Fatal server error: Couldn't bind memory for BO front buffer"
This is the last message during level 5 trial.

- xorg.level5.details.log file (obtained with option -verbose 1000000) shows at lines 445 and 557 the same failure with a more accurate context (GARTMemory):
"(II) intel(0): xf86BindGARTMemory: bind key 0 at 0x03924000 (pgoffset 14628)"
and
"(II) intel(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 0"

Due to the fact that 'system-config-display' isn't available with F10 Preview Live Usb :
- I tried first the command 'X -configure' but with the same effect as above,
- I tried then to reuse inside my F10 usb the xorg.conf working fine that I copied from my F8 environment. But the 'X -config /root/xorg.conf' gived also the same effect.

For deeper comparison, you can also find in attachments :
- the xorg.conf,
- the (/var/log/)Xorg.0.log,
both from the F8 installation running 'fine' on the same hardware.
To be honnest, I discovered in line 637 of Xorg.0.log an hidden problem :
"intel(0): xf86AllocateGARTMemory: allocation of 10 pages failed (Cannot allocate memory)"

To Ray Strode :
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I will soon answer after update (trial) of my Usb Live. I found no failure around selinux when booting F10 usb as discussed in bug 471498.

Created attachment 323949 [details]
Xorg config working for my F8 installation

Created attachment 323950 [details]
X Log for my F8 installation with X running fine

Created attachment 323951 [details]
X Log for my F10 in level 3

Created attachment 323952 [details]
X Log for my F10 in level 5 trial

i855GM had known problems in F10Preview.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 461829 ***

To Ray Strode :
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After 'yum update plymouth' in level 3 as you asked, I tried init 5 which gived on the screen :
- starting irqbalance service [on]
- starting portreserve service [on]

The terminal was unreadable because blinking again as before when I booted immediately from F10 live usb (default level 5).

You were also speaking about "portreserve" in bug 471498, so ...

Hi Dan,

I think if you upgrade your kernel and xorg-x11-drv-i810 packages then all of your issues should go away.

To Ray Strode
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I reinstalled the live usb F10 preview with an overlay (after forcing update of rpm livecd-tools form F9 into my F8 harddrive installation, this because the overlay option doesn't work with livecd-tools rpm delivered by the F8 repository).

Then, I upgraded the kernel and xorg i810 on the live usb F10 running in level 3.

And this time, the transition from level 3 to 5 showed a stable but black terminal screen without any info about service starting or something else. Good point : there is no more blinking effect. Hard shutdown was needed.