Description of problem: Display blank instead of desktop (or login). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora-9-Preview-i686-Live-KDE How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot CD 2. 3. Actual results: Blank display when either login screen or desktop should display. Expected results: Either desktop login screen or desktop displayed. Additional info: While booting, the graphical boot screen is offset to the left by about one-quarter of my display and the left hand side of the graphical boot screen is clipped and not visible. <ctrl><alt><f1> has no effect. Network is not enabled, so cannot log in from another machine. <ctrl><alt><backspace> has no effect. <atl><f7> has no effect. This machine is a Dell Dimension E520. Adapter with this machine: Intel G965. Display is Dell Flat Panel 1680x1050. Machine runs FC7 (2.6.23.15-80.fc7) no problem. (Machine originally came with Ubuntu.) Please advise how I can obtain additional diagnostic information (if needed).
I tried booting to init level 3. This succeeded. I started sshd, stopped the firewall, and logged in from my laptop. From the console, I entered startx. The same symptom -- no desktop, blank display -- ensued. The laptop session was unresponsive. The system no longer responded to pings from the laptop. I see no way to obtain additional information.
Try to run X in gdb. See http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ServerDebugging would you get some backtrace or something?
I couldn't install the debug server or driver because yum couldn't load a mirror list for the debug repository. I will try again later. But... gdb did allow me to at least get some data before the system completely locked up. (I don't really know how to start the X server from the command line -- I've always used the startx command). Here's what the gdb command printed in my ssh session: # DISPLAY=:0 gdb /usr/bin/Xorg GNU gdb Fedora (6.8-1.fc9) Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"... (no debugging symbols found) Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install xorg-x11-server.i386 (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/bin/Xorg (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] X.Org X Server 1.4.99.901 (1.5.0 RC 1) Release Date: 5 September 2007 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5xen i686 Current Operating System: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.25-0.234.rc9.git1.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Tue Apr 15 18:37:15 EDT 2008 i686 Build Date: 10 April 2008 10:18:50AM Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.4.99.901-21.20080407.fc9 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Apr 24 01:59:17 2008 (EE) Unable to locate/open config file New driver is "intel" (==) Using default built-in configuration (30 lines) [New Thread 0xb7f3e710 (LWP 3002)] [tcsetpgrp failed in terminal_inferior: Operation not permitted] ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) Read from remote host 192.168.0.52: Connection reset by peer Before I hit return, I got a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log for the first time, too: # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log X.Org X Server 1.4.99.901 (1.5.0 RC 1) Release Date: 5 September 2007 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5xen i686 Current Operating System: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.25-0.234.rc9.git1.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Tue Apr 15 18:37:15 EDT 2008 i686 Build Date: 10 April 2008 10:18:50AM Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.4.99.901-21.20080407.fc9 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Apr 24 01:59:17 2008 (EE) Unable to locate/open config file (II) Loader magic: 0x81f7460 (II) Module ABI versions: X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.3 X.Org Video Driver: 4.0 X.Org XInput driver : 2.0 X.Org Server Extension : 1.0 X.Org Font Renderer : 0.5 (II) Loader running on linux (--) using VT number 7 (--) PCI:*(0@0:2:0) Intel Corporation 82G965 Integrated Graphics Controller rev 2, Mem @ 0xdfe00000/0, 0xc0000000/0, I/O @ 0x0000ec98/0 (--) PCI: (0@0:2:1) Intel Corporation 82G965 Integrated Graphics Controller rev 2, Mem @ 0xdff00000/0 (==) Matched intel for the autoconfigured driver New driver is "intel" (==) Using default built-in configuration (30 lines) (==) --- Start of built-in configuration --- Section "Device" Identifier "Builtin Default intel Device 0" Driver "intel" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Builtin Default intel Screen 0" Device "Builtin Default intel Device 0" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Builtin Default fbdev Device 0" Driver "fbdev" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Builtin Default fbdev Screen 0" Device "Builtin Default fbdev Device 0" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Builtin Default vesa Device 0" Driver "vesa" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Builtin Default vesa Screen 0" Device "Builtin Default vesa Device 0" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Builtin Default Layout" Screen "Builtin Default intel Screen 0" Screen "Builtin Default fbdev Screen 0" Screen "Builtin Default vesa Screen 0" EndSection (==) --- End of built-in configuration --- (==) ServerLayout "Builtin Default Layout" (**) |-->Screen "Builtin Default intel Screen 0" (0) (**) | |-->Monitor "<default monitor>" (**) | |-->Device "Builtin Default intel Device 0" (==) No monitor specified for screen "Builtin Default intel Screen 0". Using a default monitor configuration. (**) |-->Screen "Builtin Default fbdev Screen 0" (1) (**) | |-->Monitor "<default monitor>" (**) | |-->Device "Builtin Default fbdev Device 0" (==) No monitor specified for screen "Builtin Default fbdev Screen 0". Using a default monitor configuration. (**) |-->Screen "Builtin Default vesa Screen 0" (2) (**) | |-->Monitor "<default monitor>" (**) | |-->Device "Builtin Default vesa Device 0" (==) No monitor specified for screen "Builtin Default vesa Screen 0". Using a default monitor configuration. (==) Automatically adding devices (==) Automatically enabling devices (==) No FontPath specified. Using compiled-in default. (==) FontPath set to: catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d, built-ins (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" (==) |-->Input Device "<default pointer>" (==) |-->Input Device "<default keyboard>" (==) The core pointer device wasn't specified explicitly in the layout. Using the default mouse configuration. (==) The core keyboard device wasn't specified explicitly in the layout. Using the default keyboard configuration. (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket) (II) System resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [5] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX[B] (II) LoadModule: "extmod" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libextmod.so After hitting return, the system locked up again, so no more data available. Is this a help?
> Is this a help? Yes, that's probably enough, but it sucks :(
I'm able to reproduce the same problem (complete freeze) on my desktop when I try to start up the Fedora 9 KDE Preview CD. I'm using an Asus A8V motherboard with a VIA K8T800 Pro chipset and an Ati Radeon 1950Pro AGP graphics card. The system works fine with F8. --Vinu.
More information: (I note that the KDE CD doesn't have gdb installed. I did my testing with the Gnome CD, which produces the same symptom that I originally reported above on KDE.) I finally realized that the Preview CD uses the rawhide repository -- not fedora. Once I enabled rawhide-debuginfo, I was able to install xorg-x11-server-debuginfo and xorg-x11-drv-debuginfo (duh). (The xorg-x11-drv-i810-debuginfo package is 2.2.1-23.fc9 .) However, at least the server package seems to be broken: # DISPLAY=:0 gdb /usr/bin/Xorg GNU gdb Fedora (6.8-1.fc9) ... warning: the debug information found in "/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/Xorg.debug" does not match "/usr/bin/Xorg" (CRC mismatch). (no debugging symbols found) Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install xorg-x11-server.i386 (gdb) quit But I tried just starting X (init 5) and this did *not* end up freezing. But my display was messed up: the desktop image was left-shifted so that only the System menu shows up in the top left panel. I could "grab" the other menus with the keyboard right-arrow key after clicking the System menu. The screen resolution was correctly set to my LCD's 1680x1050 resolution. Also, no matter what font I selected to use with the desktop, all characters were clipped on top. For example, an upper case O looked kind of like an upper case U because of this. The broken fonts were apparent in every part of the desktop: menus, title bars, application areas, etc.
The "freeze" symptom is gone when I boot the Fedora-9-i686-Live CD. But... The desktop image was left-shifted so that only the System menu shows up in the top left panel. The same left-shifting is apparent during the boot, too. I opened Bug 446293 to report this problem against FC9.
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