Bug 689146

Summary: F15a i686 CD blinks blue bars but no desktop
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: thatdoesntworkhere
Component: xorg-x11-drv-atiAssignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 15CC: airlied, johannbg, lpoetter, mcepl, metherid, mschmidt, notting, plautrba, xgl-maint
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Description thatdoesntworkhere 2011-03-19 21:09:31 UTC
Description of problem:
when booting from CD start-up appears okay (except for message 01003967 /proc/device-tree: can't find root). Screen opens with a blue "shower curtain" (blue vertical bars) and a Fedora automatic login dialog box. After a lengthy pause with just the blue bars the screen flashes black every 5 seconds (appears that a process is trying to start?). Then screen stays black with day/time & "Live System User" along top edge. If the power button is pressed several times the blue bars return and the shut-down dialog box appears momentarily. Select shut-down message, "01003967 /proc/device-tree: can't find root" appears again but Power Off is successful. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 15 alpha i686 CD

How reproducible:
every time boot from CD

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Additional info:
Chipset: SIS735 
Board: ECS K7S5A 
CPU: AMD Duron 1100
RAM: 512 MB
Video: AGP ATI GC-R7000L-B3 Radeon-7000 (RV100)
(cd download passed SHA256 checksum)

Comment 1 Michal Schmidt 2011-03-20 10:15:41 UTC
Could be Gnome crashing, X server crashing, something wrong with the radeon driver, running out of memory, ... It's hard to tell.
Can you switch to a text virtual terminal and login there as root with an empty password? Is there any swap partition in use (swapon -s)?
dmesg, /var/log/messages, /var/log/Xorg.0.log may hopefully provide some hints what's going on.

Comment 2 Lennart Poettering 2011-04-04 19:13:36 UTC
I doubt this has anything to do with systemd, guessing X. The system boots all the way to gdm, and shuts down properly, hence systemd seems to behave correctly.

Comment 3 Matěj Cepl 2011-04-05 12:30:21 UTC
I would vote for gdm, but let's try to see what's going on. 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.

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