Bug 473003

Summary:	X won't start if NetworkManager not running
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Stephen Warren <swarren>
Component:	upstart	Assignee:	Casey Dahlin <cdahlin>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	10	CC:	cdahlin, notting, vanhoof
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Description Stephen Warren 2008-11-26 00:14:09 UTC

Due to bugs 473001, 473002, I wanted to give up on NetworkManager (NM) and fall back to old-style network configuration e.g. system-config-network (s-c-n), ifcfg-eth*, "service network start", etc.

So, I did this:

* Validated that /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/* had sane content.
* chkconfig NetworkManager off
* chkconfig network on
* reboot

Now, for some reason, X startup is predicated upon NM running (or something like that) and now X won't start, so I had to switch back to running NM.

I don't know if this is an upstart bug (i.e. system-wide config/event scripts shipped as part of upstart), or an X bug (i.e. upstart config shipped with X), or some other package. Hence, starting this bug off against upstart; please re-assign as appropriate.

Thanks!

Comment 1 Casey Dahlin 2008-11-26 02:04:31 UTC

Upstart's handling of these bits is very second-hand, so I don't know that we're causing it, but I'll keep the bug until I can sit down and test it personally.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2008-11-26 19:38:18 UTC

What is the failure you're seeing in X?

Comment 3 Stephen Warren 2008-11-26 21:10:58 UTC

I think it simply doesn't attempt to start; when the boot "completes", I'm left starting at a text-mode screen (I have an NVIDIA card, so no KMS) that's blank, with just a blinking cursor.

I can change VT to some other and log in text-mode just fine.

The text-mode startup splash thing works fine during the boot process.

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2008-12-01 15:52:54 UTC

What's the output of 'initctl status prefdm'?

Is there anythign in /var/log/Xorg.0.log of interest?

Comment 5 Stephen Warren 2008-12-01 17:39:50 UTC

I can no longer reproduce this; I can boot to X just fine without NetworkManager now.

I'm not sure if my original issue was some strange one-off issue. Perhaps it's something I did to make NetworkManager work that I'm not reverting correctly when attempting to repro this issue.

Comment 6 Bill Nottingham 2008-12-01 18:12:13 UTC

OK, closing.