Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 186146
Cannot login after update to FC5
Last modified: 2013-01-09 20:22:05 EST
Description of problem: After updating from FC4 to FC5 using the DVD only caracters resembling some font from Inda apper when I type into the logong screen. The login is rejected with a message indicating that the font is wrong. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): FC5 DVD How reproducible: Always happens Steps to Reproduce: 1.Uddate from FC4 to FC5 2.Try to login 3. Actual results: A strange font appears in the space where the user name is typed. No login. An error message indicates that the propper font must be used to type the user name. Expected results: A normal login. Additional info: Usign a Dell Precision 650 Workstation. NVIDIA NV 34GL Quadro FX AGP Grafic Card. 512 MB RAM 2 40 GB Disks. 1 Xeon Processor. I have tried to solve the problem by running: yum -y updates twice. Lots of files were updated but the problem persist. My machine is useless. I cannot read my office mail except using the mail command directly on my mail server (I normally use Thunderbird). The most convenient way to reach me know is my private account: carlos_sevcik_s@yahoo.com.
The bug is related to the NVDIA drivers. I had the /etc/X11/xorg.conf part related to the NVIDIA card as: Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nvdia" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "nVidia Corporation NV34GL [Quadro FX 500/600 PCI]" EndSection from FC4, and the X windows system did not start. Changing the xorg.conf file to Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nv" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "nVidia Corporation NV34GL [Quadro FX 500/600 PCI]" EndSection produced in an apparently succefull reboot of the X system but produced the bug. I then tried to use the NVIDIA run file to recompile nvidia.ko. The original file I used with FC4 to compile the NVIDIA GL suport: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7667-pkg1.run failed because FC5 did not upgrade the kernel development files. The first run of "yum -y update" solved this, but the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7667-pkg1.run was still unable to create the propper nvidia.ko. The more recent NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8178-pkg1.run from the NVIDIA site also failed to produce nvidia.ko under FC5. Now I rebooted the system which indicated that the X system could not start, I accepted the suggestion of the system to inactivate the X system. After that a terminal configuration window appeared, there I set the Quadro card and my display (Samsung SmatScan 913V) to the propper resolution. The bug disappeared but the NVIDIA GL drivers cannot be compiled with neither of the NVIDIA files indicated above. The system works but the graphic system is terribly slow, and critical software for my work which depends on the NVIDIA GL drivers is not usable.
http://lwn.net/Articles/175796/ *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 185384 ***