Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 140896
Graphical greeter causes system to hang
Last modified: 2010-07-08 23:42:18 EDT
Description of problem: With a totally fresh install of RHEL Beta the graphical greeter will cause the system to hang on startup. Even after all updates the problem still persists. Something that I believe to be related is unless you login as root I'm unable to logout and relogin. This problem makes the system fail to boot properly over 50% of the time. Pressing ctl+alt+F1 will sometimes drop you to a terminal where you can try to debug the process. Changing to the standard greeter solves these problems. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
What is the hardware of the system having this problem? Can you reproduce it on more than one machine? And what do you mean by 'graphical greeter'? The graphical login screen? Firstboot? Something else?
HP n5495 Laptop 512Mb RAM. Intel 830m chipset video driver with the most recent i915 driver. GLX, DRI and all other video related issues are working great. I will try to reproduce on another machine later today. What logs would be most helpful? There are different fail points, but the most common is the login screen simply not loading. After that it occasionally hangs on the RH splash page. If this doesn't happen on another machine later today I'd guess that it's because I'm using 855resolution. Intel 810, 815, 830m, 855 have a problem in that the bios doesn't show that the video can do 1400x1050. Anyhow, it's worked great in past on every dist of linux I've used so.... Is there some sort of bios checking happening at startup and during login?
(note: I am bug triager, and don't actually know the answer to the questions you asked) I am confused as to what you mean by 'standard' greeter. I am given to understand that there are two login screens for gdm, plus the text-based login on non-X screens. I am guessing you are talking about the gdm login screen in both cases, when you refer to the graphical and standard greeters? Or are you meaning gdm vs non-X text-based login?
Reporter, is this bug still reproduceable on the latest upgrade of RHEL 4? Seems to me like it is just a forgotten here.