Bug 679483

Summary:	Stuck in loop trying to reach desktop at login
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Daniel Ashton <jdashton>
Component:	xorg-x11-drv-nouveau	Assignee:	Ben Skeggs <bskeggs>
Status:	CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	15	CC:	airlied, ajax, bskeggs, luigi.3010, mcepl, me
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description Daniel Ashton 2011-02-22 17:09:21 UTC

Description of problem:
Nouveau testing Feb 22 '11 using Live USB x86_64.  Login screen comes up OK, but gets stuck in loop trying to bring up desktop, failing, going back to login screen.  This is on Lenovo ThinkPad T61 with Nvidia driver.
  http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_80dd17c0-d3c2-4acd-a3f6-8033101f9a3c

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How reproducible:
Boot, wait for automatic login

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
Login screen vanishes, white rectangle fills upper-left quadrant of both screens (laptop and external monitor) for a few seconds, then return to login screen.

Expected results:
Desktop (either new shell or F14-like Gnome) should appear

Additional info:

Comment 1 Daniel Ashton 2011-02-22 17:32:29 UTC

Bug (loop) does not occur without an external monitor.  Removed external monitor and was able to reach new F15 desktop.

Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2011-03-01 21:29:21 UTC

Thanks for the bug report.  We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue.

Please add drm.debug=0x04 to the kernel command line, restart computer, and attach

* your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf, if available),
* X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log)
* output of the dmesg command, and
* system log (/var/log/messages)

to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link above.

We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information.

Thanks in advance.

Comment 3 Luigi Pardey 2012-02-05 16:05:32 UTC

Reporter, could you please reply to the previous question? If you won't reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.



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Comment 4 Daniel Ashton 2012-02-06 16:12:47 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> Reporter, could you please reply to the previous question? If you won't reply
> in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.

Please close it for now: I won't have time to recreate this in the near future.

Comment 5 Luigi Pardey 2012-02-06 17:35:33 UTC

Okay. Bug closed.