Bug 755045

Summary: system lockup at startx
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: John Reiser <jreiser>
Component: mesaAssignee: Adam Jackson <ajax>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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/var/tmp/Xorg.0.log
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serial console output captured by minicom
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tail of /var/log/yum.log
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/var/log/Xorg.1.log none

Description John Reiser 2011-11-18 16:29:08 UTC 
Description of problem: The system completely locks up when graphics starts.  The VGA text console is unchanging, there is no response to mouse or keyboard (including Ctrl-Alt-Del), there is no disk activity for over one minute.  Serial console shows nothing.  Hardware reset is the only thing recognized.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mesa-dri-drivers-7.12-0.3.fc17.i686
mesa-dri-filesystem-7.12-0.3.fc17.i686
mesa-libGL-7.12-0.3.fc17.i686
mesa-libGLU-7.12-0.3.fc17.i686
kernel-PAE-3.2.0-0.rc2.git1.1.fc17.i686
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.14.3-2.fc17.i686
xorg-x11-drv-fbdev-0.4.2-4.fc17.i686
xorg-x11-drv-vesa-2.3.0-11.fc17.i686
xorg-x11-server-Xephyr-1.11.99.1-6.20111109.fc17.i686
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.11.99.1-6.20111109.fc17.i686


How reproducible: every time (three times so far)


Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot to multi-user.  Or, boot to single user, then issue "startx".
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Actual results: Complete system lockup.


Expected results: Normal graphics login screen.


Additional info: Did not hang until "yum update" this morning.  "yum downgrade"
of corereponding mesa-* and xorg-* packages [under Rescue mode of DVD] said that only upgrade was available.

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01)

I will attach serial console log, Xorg.0.log, tail of yum.log.
Comment 1 John Reiser 2011-11-18 16:30:01 UTC 
Created attachment 534430 [details]
/var/tmp/Xorg.0.log
Comment 2 John Reiser 2011-11-18 16:30:28 UTC 
Created attachment 534431 [details]
serial console output captured by minicom
Comment 3 John Reiser 2011-11-18 16:32:58 UTC 
Created attachment 534433 [details]
tail of /var/log/yum.log

Packages updated this morning.  System did not lockup before these updates.  "yum downgrade <packages>" [via Rescue mode] claims that only upgrade is available.
Comment 4 John Reiser 2011-11-21 18:30:52 UTC 
Created attachment 534834 [details]
/var/log/Xorg.1.log

Today's rawhide allows access via ssh.
kernel-PAE-3.2.0-0.rc2.git4.1.fc17.i686

Xorg.[12345].log are present and are the same except for timestamp and VTn.

syslog in /var/log/messages has:
Nov 21 10:00:34 f17r32 gdm-binary[708]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 2.291229 seconds
Nov 21 10:00:35 f17r32 gdm-binary[708]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 1.286683 seconds
Nov 21 10:00:37 f17r32 gdm-binary[708]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 1.764947 seconds
Nov 21 10:00:38 f17r32 gdm-binary[708]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 1.331408 seconds
Nov 21 10:00:40 f17r32 gdm-binary[708]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 1.640701 seconds
Nov 21 10:00:41 f17r32 gdm-binary[708]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 1.036394 seconds
Nov 21 10:00:41 f17r32 gdm-binary[708]: WARNING: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: maximum number of X display failures reached: check X server log for errors
Comment 5 John Reiser 2011-11-22 16:53:31 UTC 
The complete graphics hang no longer occurs with today's rawhide:
kernel-PAE-3.2.0-0.rc2.git6.1.fc17.i686

Still crashing often are gnome-shell (bug 756062) and gvfs-fuse (bug 756063).