Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 124384
Hang on boot solved by removing rhgb from grub.conf in FC 1
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:43 EST
Description of problem: System freezes on every boot when graphical boot (rhgb) is used. Most often hangs just before X is lanched for login/password. Solution is to edit grub.conf to remove rhgb command. Boots every time after that. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Boot hangs everytime with rhgb in grub.conf, works everytime with it edited out. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot with rhgb in grub.conf -> hangs every time 2. Boot with rhgb edited out of grub.conf -> boots every time 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: I think this might be the solution to several reported bugs where there have been hangs on booting.
I can confirm this -- on my machine, FC1 hangs after xinetd is started when running with rhgb; when booting without it (by removing it from the kernel command line in Grub), it works fine (and sendmail starts up right after xinetd in that case).
Is this still happening with a recent release like FC3t1 or rawhide ? Can you give a bit more information about the hang, can you switch to vt1 is this a kernel like crash ? Does X starts okay on runlevel 5 ? Daniel
Daniel- It has been quite some time since this bug was submitted by me, and since then I have moved on. I'll have to answer your questions by memory. 1. I have not tried FC3 in any iteration. 2. It was a kernal like crash--completely frozen system that required a hard reboot (power recycle). 3. I have continued to use FC1 with patches. The solution I've proposed is still working with no freezes on boot. Thanks for following up on this problem. Maybe Andre (Add. Comment #1) can add to the discussion. -FW
Daniel: I would like to comment that not with Fedora Core 1, not with Fedora Core 2 but WITH Fedora Core 3 I am having similar problems with my Acer Travelmate 8000 laptop, which has a Radeon 9600 video card. Also, when I incorrectly shutdown the system (so that it will say something about the mountpoints being incorrectly umounted bla bla), it hangs while rhgb shows the label "Setting hostname". When I did shutdown correctly, rhgb makes the keyboard and mouse stop responding. When I login using the network, and try to restart X, every piece of hardware stops resonding (total hardware crash). When I disable rhgb, everything works perfectly. But I don't have a nice bootup of course..
When I did shutdown correctly, rhgb makes the keyboard and mouse stop responding. When I login using the network, and try to restart X, every piece of hardware stops resonding (total hardware crash). --> thats at the same postion of this bugreport. So between the switch to the X-server that will run the Login Screen/Graphical greeter and which will be used for your graphical session.
I have to check this when I get home, but someone suggested that maybe the following is the problem: I upgraded from FC2 to FC3 today. When I'm booting, the process hangs at "configuring kernel parameters". Back in the FC2 days, I had nVidia's driver installed, and my xorg.conf file properly reflected that. So maybe this probelm stems from having a new kernel which doesn't yet know about nVidia's driver, PLUS an xorg.conf file that refers to the driver, PLUS rhgb relying on a properly-functioning xorg.conf file?
This bug happens here as well, dell precision 650 / dual xeon 2.4ghz, 2gig memory, nvidia quadro pro card. Our fix is to just remove the rhgb option from grub, and restart. Seen new updates today though for rhgb and the kernel. Maybe this fixes it.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 135574 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.