Bug 133991 - Unable to debug random X failures
Summary: Unable to debug random X failures
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: anaconda
Version: 4.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-09-28 20:52 UTC by Matthew Booth
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-09-28 21:11:16 UTC
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Description Matthew Booth 2004-09-28 20:52:05 UTC
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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:

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2004-09-28 21:11:16 UTC
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.


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