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Was just trying to test F18 to F20 fedup, and found this. Using an F20 host and the virtual machine I use for just about all my testing, which has a typical qxl/SPICE config, I did a clean install of F18 from the x86_64 desktop live image. The live and the installed system both booted to GNOME just fine. I then 'yum update'd to the latest F18 packages, and since then, it looks like X crashes on system boot, or if I boot to runlevel 3, log in as a user and run 'startx'. Will attach logs.
Created attachment 836112 [details] Xorg.0.log from a failed start attempt
Created attachment 836113 [details] /var/log/messages from affected VM, contains several X start attempts I see this: Dec 12 19:10:54 localhost kernel: [ 26.586607] [drm:qxl_release_from_id_locked] *ERROR* failed to find id in release_idr Dec 12 19:10:54 localhost kernel: [ 26.796968] [drm:qxl_release_from_id_locked] *ERROR* failed to find id in release_idr but those lines are only present once, and I did at least three tries (two just booting runlevel 5, one booting runlevel 3 and 'startx').
I can't reproduce, but honestly at this point it's highly unlikely to be fixed in F18: no one has pushed an f18 qxl package since _before_ f18 even went GA (one update attempt was karam'd out of existence).
Heh, coincidentally I just reproduced it while filing karma for F18 security updates. Happened just the same. Booting with 'nomodeset' works around it.
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