Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 243797
Cursor vanishes at login
Last modified: 2008-04-04 16:04:49 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070508 Firefox/1.5.0.12 Description of problem: My mouse cursor shows up normally while booting Fedora. Once the login screen is reached the cursor vanishes for good. I can log on without problems. Once I reach the Gnome desktop, I can locate the cursor using the CTRL key. The mouse cursor moves appropriately, clicking works fine. It's just not visible. Changing the cursor theme does not help. When this appeared I was using a USB optical mouse, but the same thing happens with a standard PS2 mouse as well. This first occurred when I installed FC6 on a new off-brand computer. It persists with F7. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Kernel 2.6.21 Gnome_desktop 2.18.0 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot Fedora 2. Type user name and password 3. Actual Results: The mouse works fine but the cursor is no longer visible. Expected Results: The cursor should have appeared normally Additional info: No error messages at all.
I have found that if I boot to runlevel 3 instead of 5, then startX, the cursor will appear normally. If I log out, log back in, and startX, the cursor is no longer visible.
Maybe it's always the *second* time the X server is started that causes the problem? Can you boot into runlevel 5, but take rhgb out of your kernel command line and report if it works initially?
Reporter, could you please reply to the previous question? If you won't reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.
I removed "rhgb quiet" from the kernel command in my grub.conf file. That took care of the problem. I suppose the cursor might vanish again if I had to log out and back in, but that's not enough to worry about. Thanks for your help.
Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported during the development of Fedora 8. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are changing the version of this bug to '8'. If this bug still exists in rawhide, please change the version back to rawhide. (If you're unable to change the bug's version, add a comment to the bug and someone will change it for you.) Thanks for your help and we apologize for the interruption. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp We will be following the process here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this doesn't happen again.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you've got nv hardware. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 182517 ***