Bug 691605

Summary: Startup fails, driver is not found and loaded
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Chris Murphy <bugzilla>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveauAssignee: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 15CC: airlied, ajax, bskeggs, dcantrell, mcepl, xgl-maint
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Whiteboard: [cat:lockup]
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Description Chris Murphy 2011-03-28 23:44:27 UTC 
Description of problem: GUI comes up, GUI goes away, with the following text on-screen.

[   13.630278] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode11.fw" not found
[   13.630862] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode11.fw" not found
[   13.631511] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this website.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
F15 alpha
Fedora-15-Alpha-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso


How reproducible:
100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Created bootable USB stick for (U)EFI machines.
2. Boot from USB stick.

  
Actual results:
Fedora splash screen appears. Then vanishes, replaced with text above. Does not proceed further.

Expected results:

Expect to get a login screen or a desktop. Don't expect the GUI to drop away.

Additional info:
Attachment of entire dmesg output.
Comment 1 Chris Murphy 2011-03-28 23:45:59 UTC 
Created attachment 488303 [details]
dmesg output
Comment 2 Chris Murphy 2011-03-29 04:42:10 UTC 
This may not be related to wireless failure at all but rather failure of X to startup, possibly due to the kernel line nomodeset, used to fix this bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691609


messages includes:
Mar 29 04:33:43 localhost gdm-binary[1105]: WARNING: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: maximum number of X display failures reached: check X server log for errors

Attaching Xorg.0.log
Comment 3 Chris Murphy 2011-03-29 04:42:50 UTC 
Created attachment 488324 [details]
Xorg.0.log
Comment 4 Matthias Clasen 2011-04-28 03:20:05 UTC 
Moving to xorg-x11-server for further triage
Comment 5 Chris Murphy 2011-04-29 15:24:44 UTC 
Probably a duplicate of bug 493754.
Comment 6 Matěj Cepl 2011-04-29 19:11:53 UTC 
(In reply to comment #5)
> Probably a duplicate of bug 493754.

Unfortunately agree. I wonder whether bug 650949 is not part of the story as well.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 493754 ***
Comment 7 Chris Murphy 2011-04-30 22:29:19 UTC 
I don't think so. That bug does not specifically say EFI booting is being used.