From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 Description of problem: I have tried to install RHEL4 beta 1 on 2 different machines now and experienced X failures. After probing for video, monitor, mouse the X server fails to start. The two machines have very different hardware, including different graphics cards (matrox and nvidia). On the second machine, I ran the installer and X failed, I allowed it to reboot and did exactly the same again and X did not fail. I am unable to debug the failures, because immediately they have occurred anaconda exists. An X log which might give a clue to the cause is reported to have been written to /tmp/X.log, but I am unable to access it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start installing RHEL4 Beta 1. 2. Hope that X fails to start this time. Actual Results: System exits. Expected Results: System allows an opportunity to examine log files from failed X startup. Additional info:
Booting with 'linux nokill' will let you access things. Unfortunately, we have to kill processes to be able to unmount filessystems and let you reboot cleanly in most cases.