Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 116871
Can't get X to run with Fedora Core 2 Test 1
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:37 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Description of problem: I installed Fedora Core 2 Test 1 on a Dell Dimension 4100 system that had successfully run previous versions of Red Hat software, including RH 8, RH 9, and most recently Fedora Core 1. At first, I attempted to try the unsupported upgrade, but I had nowhere near enough space to pull in the packages and upgrade the system. Next I tried installing, but without reiniting the partition. That didn't work either, for the same reason - not enough space. Fine, I could live with that. So I next attempted a clean installation, right over the top of the previous Core 1, initializing the disk partition in the process. The installation went very smoothly. However, upon completion of the installation, the first time the X server attempted to start, it flashed several times, then failed and went back to the command line. Repeated attempts to install the X server failed. Recently I've tried to install a 2.6 kernel on Debian and Mandrake test systems and ran into similar problems, so I'm wondering if perhaps some devices have changed between the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels that aren't being automatically and properly handled. Today I got a copy of the Mandrake 10.0 RC1 kit and it installed OK. Did anything change with respect to the device naming convention? Are there any known kernel bugs that could affect the operation of the XFree86 server? It sure doesn't work for me. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): vmlinuz-2.6.3-1.91 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora Core 2 Test 1 on Dell Dimension 4100, NV graphics, P991 monitor. 2. Configure the system to use the Dell P991 monitor at 1024x768. 3. Complete the installation and start X. Actual Results: The server flickers, but repeatedly won't start properly. Expected Results: Would expect to login to the X server normally. Currently restricted to console use. Additional info: I have several other disk partitions that are currently running Linux software. The X server works fine, performance and display is good.
There are 2 or 3 different problems recently that result in X being unable to start, or resulting in X hanging at startup. Only one of the 3 problems are XFree86 related, and a fix is in testing. In order to know which problem you are experiencing, your X server log, config file, and /var/log/messages are required as individual uncompressed webbrowser viewable file attachments using the link below. TIA
Since this bugzilla report was filed, there have been several major updates to the X Window System, which may resolve this issue. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest version of Fedora Core, which can be obtained from: http://fedora.redhat.com/download If this issue turns out to still be reproduceable in the latest version of Fedora Core, please file a bug report in the X.Org bugzilla located at http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg" component. Once you've filed your bug report to X.Org, if you paste the new bug URL here, Red Hat will continue to track the issue in the centralized X.Org bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that become available for consideration in future updates.