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Description of problem: I have been using Fedora for more 1 1/2 years now: FC7, FC9 and now F11. There were no special problems, until the past week that the GDM unexpectedly hangs; only the mouse is moving and it is impossible to access the machine from the Keyboard. There's no problem connecting the desktop from another machine via SSH, and that's how I reboot the server. At the beginning I thought that the source of the problem was VLC or any other Audio player - but today, the machine had stuck when it did not run them, and active window was Firefox. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Impossible Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: Output of uname -r: 2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.i686.PAE
An information which I forgot to add: the details of the GDM's package: gdm-2.26.1-13.fc11.i586. Thanks Shay
Thank you for the bug report. Please provide some steps which lead to the problem. At what moment it hangs: at logging in or at switching the user? > How reproducible: > Impossible Don't you experience the problem anymore? --- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
Hi I will begin with the end: the problem was solved by adding: nomodeset to the active kernel's parameter in /boot/grub/grub.conf. After opening the bug, I kept researching the issue, and found that it only occurred when I used Firefox. When I realized the this was the cause of the problem, I looked for an alternative browser and tried "Konqueror" - and the problem had repeated itself. Finally, I started looking at Fedora's forum and other places and finally had stumbled on this workaround that solved the problem. Now: could you please send me a short description about this parameter? Thanks! Shay