Bug 679956

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

If the anaconda crashes during the switching to the graphic mode, most likely the problem lies in Xorg support for your graphics chip. There are couple of options how we can obtain information necessary for resolving the issue.

If the computer is not completely frozen when installation fails, switch to the console (Ctrl+Alt+F2) and copy /tmp/X* and /var/log/anaconda.xlog to some other place -- USB stick, some other computer via network, somewhere on the Internet, and please attach it to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link above.

If the computer is completely useless after installation fails, you can also install Fedora with a VESA mode driver (see http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/
for more information on that). Then after successful installation you can collect /var/log/anaconda.xlog, /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and the output of the program dmesg instead.

Or you can install Fedora in a text mode completely, and then start X after that. If it fails, still /var/log/Xorg.0.log and the output of dmesg program from the failed attempt to start X would be useful.

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

Thank you very much in advance.

*** Bug 679957 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

This wasn't an install, this was just attempting to boot using a live cd during the nouveau test day

(In reply to comment #3)
> This wasn't an install, this was just attempting to boot using a live cd during
> the nouveau test day

Sure, but the point is that if you are able at least to get into text mode, you can collect with startx all logs required for further diagnosis of this issue.

Thank you for helping us to make a Fedora better.

With the test day image or latest version? As i have no idea where the test day disk went

(In reply to comment #5)
> With the test day image or latest version? As i have no idea where the test day
> disk went

We are here in the development business not a history department ;), so we don't care that much about the past versions of testing images. So the image from http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease is probably your best bet.

Thank you in advance

Computer now boots fine, thanks,

Only slight issue, during boot, if you press f1, when you use to get the list of services starting, that is now 3/4 white and black lines with the other 1/4 being a very compressed version of the initial choice screen for live cds ( the bit with boot, verify and boot , memtest etc)

Also just noticed that the black/white line thing appears momentarily before shutdown

(In reply to comment #7)
> Computer now boots fine, thanks,
> 
> Only slight issue, during boot, if you press f1, when you use to get the list
> of services starting, that is now 3/4 white and black lines with the other 1/4
> being a very compressed version of the initial choice screen for live cds ( the
> bit with boot, verify and boot , memtest etc)

Yes, unfortunately systemd boot messages are kind of messy (starting of services happens in parallel now, so services have unfortunate tendency to spill their messages over each other).

(In reply to comment #8)
> Also just noticed that the black/white line thing appears momentarily before
> shutdown

Does it actually shutdown though to complete power off state?

Thanks for helping us to make Fedora better

shutdown works fine

Thank you for letting us know.