Bug 811352

Summary: boot fail
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Brent <bmswan>
Component: systemdAssignee: systemd-maint
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: dennis, johannbg, lpoetter, metherid, mschmidt, notting, plautrba, systemd-maint
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Last Closed: 2012-04-14 18:39:05 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Brent 2012-04-10 19:08:21 UTC
Description of problem:

Kernel 3.3.0-8 was the last kernel that boots.  The two newer versions of the kernel halt the boot process.

Comment 1 Brent 2012-04-10 19:09:22 UTC
Created attachment 576562 [details]
boot fail

Comment 2 Brent 2012-04-10 19:09:47 UTC
Created attachment 576563 [details]
boot fail

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2012-04-10 20:28:39 UTC
That's not hanging in the kernel, though. Moving to systemd.

Comment 4 Lennart Poettering 2012-04-11 12:52:09 UTC
Hmm, what's wrong? This shows that the display manager got started properly. Are you suggesting it doesn't show a graphical login on screen? If so, this would be something to reassign to the DM.

Which display manager is used? gdm?

Comment 5 Brent 2012-04-11 14:42:22 UTC
if you look at the attached files, you'll note that it does not boot to startx, just hangs.  It might be the NFS locking process it hangs on or one of the other processes it is attempting there.  All I can tell you is that when I upgraded it stopped working.  the only way for me to use the system is to use the older kernel.  I think that's the sort of feedback you need?  Yes, gdm.

Comment 6 Michal Schmidt 2012-04-12 12:11:51 UTC
Have you tried switching to a different virtual console (e.g. ALT+F2)? Do you have a login prompt there?

Comment 7 Brent 2012-04-12 12:21:29 UTC
No I have not tried that.  I don't mind volunteering to run a few scenarios for you if they are useful; there is no way form me to really compensate for the amount of work that has been put into this OS.

I'm not really a programmer at the level which would be useful to you.  I'll let you know if that works though.

Comment 8 Michal Schmidt 2012-04-12 12:37:25 UTC
OK, please try it. And if you can login there, check the output of "systemctl status prefdm.service".

Comment 9 Brent 2012-04-14 18:38:38 UTC
yes, the alt+f2 got me to the login and I was able to find the "no screens available" error from there.  Downloaded the driver from nvidia, updated yum, reinstalled gcc and the kernel-devel then installed the driver and works great.

Thanks for the tip.

Comment 10 Michal Schmidt 2012-04-17 08:46:12 UTC
This is related to bug 746279.