| Summary: | kdm fails to start X server when first booted. | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Ian Pilcher <ipilcher> | ||||||
| Component: | kdebase-workspace | Assignee: | Than Ngo <than> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | fedora, jreznik, kevin, ltinkl, mwoehlke.floss, rdieter, rnovacek, ry, smparrish, than, thomasj | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||||||||
| Last Closed: | 2011-02-27 00:48:59 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||||
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Created attachment 477939 [details]
X.org log from successful X server start
This is the X.org log after ssh'ing into the system as root and running:
killall kdm
This does not occur if I remove "rhgb" from the kernel command line (i.e. boot without a plymouth graphical splash screen). (In reply to comment #2) > This does not occur if I remove "rhgb" from the kernel command line (i.e. > boot without a plymouth graphical splash screen). That's not very clear, is it? If I boot without "rhgb" (but with kernel mode setting), kdm is able to successfully start the X server on the first attempt. Hope that's better. (In reply to comment #3) > If I boot without "rhgb" (but with kernel mode setting), kdm is able to > successfully start the X server on the first attempt. I spoke too soon. kdm was starting successfully until I turned on MySQL (mysqld). With MySQL enabled, I get the same failure to start the X server. This has got to be some sort of race condition, but I don't know how to debug it further. Possibly fixed by the latest slew of updates (sample size == 1). Haven't seen this in a while. Closing. Can this be re-opened? I'm having the same problem on a fresh install of F18 alpha... you may have updated to https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-16937/plymouth-0.8.8-1.fc18 and see bug #870695 instead? Ah, yes... downgrading plymouth did indeed fix it. (The symptoms are unhelpfully similar :-(.) Thanks for pointing me to that. |
Created attachment 477938 [details] X.org log from failed attempt to start X server Description of problem: kdm fails to start X server when first booted. Subsequent attempts succeed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kdm-4.6.0-6.fc15.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install rawhide with KDE, KDM, etc. 2. echo DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE > /etc/sysconfig/desktop 3. Ensure system is configured to start in runlevel 5 4. Reboot Actual results: KDM fails to start X server. System appears to hang at plymouth screen, although it's actually possible to ssh in and kill the kdm process, at which point kdm succeeds in starting X. Expected results: KDM should successfully start X on first try. Additional info: This system was just upgraded from Fedora 14 to rawhide with yum. syslog says: Feb 9 18:04:29 ian kdm[1744]: X server died during startup Feb 9 18:04:29 ian kdm[1744]: X server for display :0 cannot be started, session disabled