From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) Description of problem: Bad: Installed Fedora FC2, chose custom installation and not workstation or server. On reboot (or boot from a powered off state), the console will go blank after the choice for interactive startup is shown. Log in using ssh from another computer and firstboot is hung: [root@sponge log]# ps -ef | grep firstboot root 2240 1356 0 15:13 ? 00:00:00 /bin/bash /etc/rc5.d/S95firstboot start root 2247 2240 0 15:13 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/firstboot root 2248 2247 0 15:13 ? 00:00:15 /usr/bin/python2 /usr/share/firstboot/firstboot.py root 2353 2272 0 15:40 pts/1 00:00:00 grep firstboot /var/log/messages is attached. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firstboot-1.3.14-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Installed with SELinux 2. Thought SELinux might be the problem, reinstall without SELinux 3. Actual Results: Still no console - monitor even goes into power save mode. Expected Results: Graphical or text login on console. Additional info:
Created attachment 103756 [details] /var/log/messages
Is the system trying to use the parallel port for a console? From /var/log/messages: Sep 11 15:13:00 sponge kernel: lp0: console ready
Created attachment 103765 [details] Kickstart file created during install
Created attachment 103766 [details] Installation log
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 132418 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.