Bug 47530
| Summary: | Install tracebacks and exits abnormally upon X server startup failure -- Toshiba Satellite Pro 480CDT | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Panic <mdrew> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.3 | CC: | b-nordquist, twaugh |
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2001-07-10 05:15:28 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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I have this one too, and would be willing to test a pre-release fix. |
Description of Problem: CD-ROM graphical install attempts fail with the below error. Text installations work. Running anaconda - please wait... Probing for video card: Chips & Technologies CT65555 Probing for monitor type: Unable to probe Probing for mouse type: Generic - 3 Button Mouse (PS/2) Waiting for X server to start...log located in /tmp/X.log .. X server started successfully. Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 421, in ? from splashscreen import splashScreenShow File "/usr/bin/anaconda/splashscreen.py", line 20, in ? from gtk import * File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 29, in ? _gtk.gtk_init() RuntimeError: cannot open display install exited abnormally ... How Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Attempt a Fairfax beta1 graphical installation on a Satellite Pro 480CDT 2. 3. Actual Results: Traceback and anaconda failure Expected Results: boot into the graphical installation, or ditch to the text install Additional Information: It worked in 7.1, so it has to be something recent that was changed. The screen never blinks into the X server -- all I see is text, so the X server startup just doesn't happen. Alt-F7 is inaccessible. Alt-F3 shows this error: * ERROR - trying to run fbconProbe w/o knowing fb device!! During a 7.1 install this error is not present. I am booting off of the boot.img boot disk because this machine's CD-ROM is not bootable (despite the setting in the BIOS). lspci -vn shows this on the video card: 00:04.0 Class 0300: 102c:00e5 (rev c6) Subsystem: 1179:0001 and -vb identifies the card as a Chips and Technologies F65555 HiQVPro, with the subsystem ID'd as a Toshiba America Info Systems Unknown. The machine is available for testing as needed.