Bug 484276

I had a similar hang right before the end of the copy-to-disk install of the livecd under a kvm instance with 1GB of memory allocated to it.

> Computer hung after only a few screens (may be unrelated to the graphics
> problem)

I'm seeing this behavior (without the screen corruption described above) as
well shortly after package installation starts.  (It usually hangs during
installation of one of the first 50 packages ...)

I'm booting from the F11-alpha i386 CDROM 1 iso image ...

I've started a text installation, and that is going more smoothly so far (about 50% of packages installed right now).  So I still suspect that my particular hang is graphics related.  I'll report more if/when the text installation completes.

I've successfully done a text mode installation, but the system hung
after startx.  I got a bug buddy window with some corruption (I don't
know what crashed) after X started and then nothing for several minutes.
The mouse moved a corrupt little fedora wait icon around the screen,
but there were no other signs of life.  I didn't check if I could ping or
ssh into it.  I couldn't ctrl-alt-del to reboot and ctrl-alt-backspace didn't
work (although I think I saw in the release notes that it doesn't do
anything by default anymore).  In the end, I power cycled and booted
back to the f10 partition (where there is still X corruption but no
hangs).  I'm pretty sure the f11 hangs are graphics driver related
due to the track record of intel driver on my hardware.

The other people who had hangs with different graphics chips and without
the screen corruption might want to open separate bugs since they may
be unrelated.

I ran Xorg -configure and then copied the resulting xorg.conf to /etc/X11 and then edited it to change the driver to vesa, and X is working fine so far.

(In reply to comment #5)
> I ran Xorg -configure and then copied the resulting xorg.conf to /etc/X11 and
> then edited it to change the driver to vesa, and X is working fine so far.

Could we get /var/log/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log in the working and non-working situation, please?

Thank you

Created attachment 331124 [details]
working Xorg.0.log (using vesa driver)

I can't get the not-working Xorg.0.log until Monday, sorry.

Created attachment 331126 [details]
working xorg.conf

The non-working xorg.conf was no xorg.conf.  I don't think I tried the xorg.conf created with Xorg -configure without changing the driver to vesa.  I can do that on Monday if you'd like.

(In reply to comment #8)
> The non-working xorg.conf was no xorg.conf.  I don't think I tried the
> xorg.conf created with Xorg -configure without changing the driver to vesa.  I
> can do that on Monday if you'd like.

yes, please

Created attachment 331324 [details]
Xorg.0.log wit no xorg.conf

Created attachment 331327 [details]
Xorg.0.log using Xorg -configure xorg.conf

the xorg.conf used was identical to the previously attached working xorg.conf except the default "intel" driver was used instead of changing to "vesa".  With this xorg.conf and with no xorg.conf, there is corruption and a hang.  The keyboard is unresponsive, but the mouse moves around the corrupt screen, but mouse clicks do nothing.

Hmm, I don't see any crash there. Reassigning.

There was screen corruption and a hang, not a crash.  The same system has screen corruption in f10 with the intel driver but does not hang.  In both f10 and f11, the vesa driver works without hanging and without corruption.

X is still hanging for me.  I didn't notice the corruption anymore.
I am now have this installed:

xorg-x11-drv-intel.i586 2.6.0-14.fc11 

I also don't see a mouse pointer when I start with the intel driver.
vesa still works fine.

I forgot to mention... even text mode is now screwed up
on this system.  Some text is off the left of the screen
during boot.  It starts out fine, but then it switches modes
to smaller font and about 5-10 characters are hidden off
the left side of the screen.  I realize this isn't related
to the xorg driver, but I thought it might still be important
to mention as it may relate to how the graphics is initialized.
If you want me to file a separate bug for that one, what is 
the appropriate component to file it against?

Is more information required on this bug?  It's been two
months since I submitted this report and it is still
hanging in rawhide.

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

In Fedora 11 package is named xorg-x11-drv-intel. Changing bugs apropriately.

Since this bugzilla report was filed, there have been several major updates in various components of the Xorg system, which may have resolved this issue. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade their system to the latest version of their packages. For packages from updates-testing repository you can use command

yum upgrade --enablerepo='*-updates-testing'

Alternatively, you can also try to test whether this bug is reproducible with the upcoming Fedora 12 distribution by downloading LiveMedia of F12 Beta available at http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ . By using that you get all the latest packages without need to install anything on your computer. For more information on using LiveMedia take a look at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD .

Please, if you experience this problem on the up-to-date system, let us now in the comment for this bug, or whether the upgraded system works for you.

If you won't be able to reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.

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I had too many problems with the intel driver and had to replace that machine.
I can drop that old machine off at Redhat's Mountain View California office
for a month or two if it would help you improve the Intel drivers.  Let me
know if you want me to do that.

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All known screen corruption issues on 865 should be resolved in F13.