Bug 498243

Summary: Unable to start GDM
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Michael Monreal <michael.monreal>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveauAssignee: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 11CC: airlied, ajax, bskeggs
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Description Michael Monreal 2009-04-29 15:13:47 UTC 
F11Preview LiveCD does not start GDM, so I'm not able to even install it. What I see is the following being dran on tty0 a lot of times:

nouveau 0000:01:00.0: nouveau_fifo_free: freeing fifo 0

1.) X does *not* fall back to nv or even vesa. 

2.) There's no obvious way (boot option?) for me to tell Fedora to use either of the working drivers. I tried forcing another driver and eventually got GDM to start but I was not able to log in due to some session problems (I guess manually starting GDM after a crash is not *that* easy after all...)

3.) Finally, the release notes don't even mention nouveau and how this may cause problems, which looks to me like the most serious flaw.
Comment 1 Ben Skeggs 2009-05-04 04:34:13 UTC 
It would be very useful for you to provide your /var/log/Xorg.0.log so I at least have an idea of what went wrong, so I can fix it :)
Comment 2 Michael Monreal 2009-05-04 23:23:44 UTC 
Created attachment 342397 [details]
Xorg.0.log

Here's a recent Xorg.0.log I just did with a F11 Preview Live-CD. It was not easy to get this btw... if I just wait and let it boot, my screen will turn of after a while of flashing. The only way I have found to get into the system is
- ESC'ing plymouth
- waiting for X/GDM to begin loading (screen will flash a bit between console/black/console/...)
- now pressing alt-f2 a few times to get to a login tty
Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 14:47:50 UTC 
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
Comment 4 Michael Monreal 2009-08-15 12:24:42 UTC 
This works with recent Rawhide snapshots now. Feel free to close as OBSOLETE or NEXTRELEASE. I will keep an eye on this and report regressions - I really want to switch to Fedora with F12 :)
Comment 5 Ben Skeggs 2009-08-24 03:00:48 UTC 
Thanks for letting me know!