Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 131454
rawhide-20040901 xorg-x11 freezes system console during start
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:48 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040704 Firefox/0.9.1 Description of problem: After upgrading to today's rawhide, xorg-x11 is unable of starting. When starting in runlevel 5, the system screen clears completely when X attempts to start, the harddisk is accessed for about 10-15 seconds, then harddisk activity stops and the machine becomes unresponsive. I have allowed it to sit for minutes with no change. Ctrl-Alt-Del does not cause activity. The only solution I have found is to power cycle. If I boot into runlevel 3, login to my user account, and run startx, the screen clears and leaves me in the same state as if I had booted into runlevel 5. This may be related to modules not being loaded from #131452. I can provide any log files that might be helpful. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Upgrade to rawhide-20040901 2. Reboot Additional info:
Not enough information present in bug report. Please supply more details, X server log and config file, kernel log file all as individual file attachments using bugzilla file attach feature. What hardware are you using, and what driver?
Created attachment 103356 [details] Xorg log
Just updated the rawhide. Looks like the /dev/input/mice is not being setup. From /var/log/messages: Sep 1 11:50:30 indoffcallacctg gpm[2765]: *** info [startup.c(95)]: Sep 1 11:50:30 indoffcallacctg gpm[2765]: Started gpm successfully. Entered daemon mode. Sep 1 11:50:30 indoffcallacctg gpm[2765]: O0o.oops(): [server_tools.c(76)]: Sep 1 11:50:30 indoffcallacctg gpm[2765]: Could not open /dev/input/mice. Sep 1 11:50:30 indoffcallacctg gpm: O0o.oops(): [server_tools.c(76)]: Sep 1 11:50:30 indoffcallacctg gpm: Could not open /dev/input/mice. Sep 1 11:50:30 indoffcallacctg gpm: gpm startup succeeded So from the Xorg.0.log: (**) Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" (**) Mouse0: Device: "/dev/input/mice" (**) Mouse0: Protocol: "IMPS/2" (**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Mouse0: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such file or directory. (EE) Mouse0: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Mouse0" (II) UnloadModule: "mouse" (**) Option "CoreKeyboard" (**) Keyboard0: Core Keyboard (**) Option "Protocol" "standard" (**) Keyboard0: Protocol: standard (**) Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30" (**) Option "XkbRules" "xorg" (**) Keyboard0: XkbRules: "xorg" (**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105" (**) Keyboard0: XkbModel: "pc105" (**) Option "XkbLayout" "us" (**) Keyboard0: XkbLayout: "us" (**) Option "CustomKeycodes" "off" (**) Keyboard0: CustomKeycodes disabled (WW) No core pointer registered (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard0" (type: KEYBOARD) No core pointer Fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.X.Org for help. Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information. *** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not *** be the reason for the server aborting. FatalError re-entered, aborting Caught signal 4. Server aborting
I don't think the information in the last 2 comments is related to the original bug report. I'll await djr's response to my query before any conclusions though.
In reply to comment #3: The X server just tries to open the device it is told to open, so what you're seeing there is not an X bug. You're seeing the X server unable to open the device it was told to open, because the device doesn't exist. That is either a misconfiguration, or a kernel bug, and if misconfiguration can be ruled out, a kernel bug report should be filed I suppose.
I upgraded udev, initscripts, and module-boot-tools (to fix other problems) and am no longer able to reproduce the problem. I can downgrade these components if you think it is worth tracking down why the machine was dying in X rather than giving an error; otherwise I guess it is okay to close this NOTABUG. Thanks.
Ok, thanks for the update. Assuming it was a non-X bug, that was fixed with other system updates. Closing "NOTABUG"