Description of problem: Desktop doesn't come up... screen stays at X initialization and seems frozen. When I reported this Fedora 9 Alpha was not listed as an option... so I picked "rawhide". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): This report is against Fedora 9 Alpha Fedora-9-Alpha-Live-i686.iso Fedora-9-Alpha-Live-KDE-i686.iso releases. How reproducible: Attempted to boot LiveCDs on Dell OptiPlex GX620 and Dell OptiPlext 745 computers and the system boots up to the point where the screen gets stuck where it shows the garbage that is often seen for a fraction of a second before X clears the screen... the mouse pointer is present and the mouse pointer drives around ok with mouse input... but the keyboard will not change the capslock nor numlock indicator... and the CD is no longer being accessed. The machine is basically stuck during X initialization. Oddly enough Fedora 7 and 8 worked fine on these machines. Here are the hardware details as listed by lspci from working CentOS installs on the machine: Dell OptiPlex GX620 Small Form Factor ------------------------------------- 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL Memory Controller Hub (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL PCI Express Root Port (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1) 00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV380 [Radeon X600 (PCIE)] 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV380 [Radeon X600] 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01) Dell OptiPlex GX745 Small Form Factor: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 PCI Express Root Port (rev 02) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Contoller #4 (rev 02) 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02) 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HB/HR (ICH8/R) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV516 [Radeon X1300/X1550 Series] 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV516 [Radeon X1300 Pro] (Secondary) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5754 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) For those who feel compelled to ask, I did an sha1sum of the downloaded .iso files and both came up good... and the burn process went fine... on a system I haven't had any problems burning CDs from. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to boot either LiveCD 2. Just wait 3. Actual results: Quits responding to keyboard input and appears to either be locked up or in an infinite loop Expected results: Desktop should come up Additional info:
These are two common / popular business desktop models from Dell in a fairly common hardware configuration... and Fedora should work with them flawlessly.
Thanks for the bug report. We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue. Please attach your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log) to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link below. Could you please also try to run without any /etc/X11/xorg.conf whatsoever and let X11 autodetect your display and video card? Attach to this bug /var/log/Xorg.0.log from this attempt as well, please. We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information. Thanks in advance.
mcepl - Your kidding right? 1) I'm booting/running from the LiveCD 2) It crashes and I don't have access to the files No of any way I could provide you with what you are asking for? If so, please specify how and I'll give it a try.
start Linux in the text mode (add 3 to the kernel command in grub; access that with "a" key in the grub menu), and then you can start (as normal user, not root) X with the command startx. When it crashes, you have /var/log/Xorg.0.log from the failed attempt; remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf (if there is one) and try startx again.
(In reply to comment #4) > start Linux in the text mode (add 3 to the kernel command in grub; access that > with "a" key in the grub menu) No biggie but just to clarify... I don't think the LiveCD uses grub and [TAB] is used to edit. > and then you can start (as normal user, not > root) X with the command startx. When it crashes, you have /var/log/Xorg.0.log > from the failed attempt; remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf (if there is one) and try > startx again. I saw the NetworkManager daemon start but I the machine would not get an IP address via DHCP. The switches in use on our network require at least 60 seconds before they will start passing packets. Other distros just stall at the "Getting IP address" message until they get one... or fail and put the DHCP request in the background... so it'll get an IP when it can. Fedora 9 Alpha doesn't seem to get an IP address. Logged in as user root, mounted USB thumb drive, copied /etc/X11/xorg.conf to usb thumb drive. umounted thumb drive. Logged in as user fedora. startx. Machine locks up during initialization of X. The display shows the garbage in the top couple inch or two... but below that it is fine... there is a mouse pointer and it moves around with input... machine no longer responds to keyboard input. No way to switch back to console to examine/copy /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Rebooted. Logged in as user root and did an rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Logged out. Logged in as user fedora and ran startx... machine responded the same way. It locks up where it no longer responds to keyboard input and I can't switch back to the console to examine/copy /var/log/Xorg.0.log. In both cases, I can push the power button and wait... and even though I can't see what is going on because the display still shows the init X11 initialization garbage... the machine seems to be stopping services and powers down. If I had network I might be able to ssh (if there is a way to start sshd) in and examine the /var/log/Xorg.0.log but I don't have any network. Network does work fine with previous Fedora releases and current CentOS 5 install. If there are any other commands I could run for you, any other clues I could gather... just tell me what you want me to do on the machine and I'll give it a try. The default /etc/X11/xorg.conf was very generic so I don't know if it'll be useful or not, but I'll attach it. The behavior I report above was consistant across both the Dell OptiPlex GX620 and the Dell OptiPlex GX745. The xorg.conf was the same on both.
Created attachment 294267 [details] xorg.conf file before removing it
I am experiencing the same behaviour. I did a fresh install from the F9alpha live CD. Everything worked fine until the "login" screen should have showed up. At this point the screen is mostly blank - just some junk at the top of the screen. This looks like what happens before the driver fixes the screen in normal boots. The machine in question is a Thinkpad T60p with a 1400x1050 screen and a FireGL video chip.
Created attachment 297301 [details] initial xorg.conf file Here is the xorg.conf file from the text start. Note that the video driver is radeon. I edited the driver to vesa, did a startx, and then the install process continued correctly. I strongly suspect that radeon is the wrong driver for a T60p that has a Mobility FireGL V2520 graphics controller.
Just downloaded and tested the Fedora 9 Beta LiveCD and the problem is gone on both of the machines I reported about. Closing ticket.
Agreed. The radeon driver works OK in Fedora 9 Beta for my T60p.