From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT) Description of problem: This problem seems to involve an incompatibility between IBM video controllers(S3 Savage4 and S3 Savage4 Pro) and the video driver probed by Anaconda which uses hardware acceleration. When viewing the XF86Config-4 that is created by Anaconda, the following comment is included in the Savage Device section: #No known options By adding the following line: option "no accel" hardware acceleration is disabled and prevent the server from further crashing. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install 7.2 RC1 on IBM xSeries x330 and for video configuration select S3 Savage4 (highlighted by default), 8MB Video Memory and 1024x768 Resolution. 2.After installed, start up Gnome as either root or a normal user (both tested). 3. Click on Main Menu --> Programs ---> Help Systems. Click on Man Pages in the Help Index section. Click on either of the following Man Pages - File Formats. Or any of the Man Page books- 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Actual Results: The system will hard hang. Manual reset and cold reboot required. Expected Results: Man pages displayed. Additional info: Also seen on other xseries servers (x232, x300, x330, x342) with either S3 Savage4 or S3 Savage4 Pro onboard video chipsets running RH 7.2 RC1 and an x200 running RH 7.1.
This isn't caused by a bug in the man-pages - reassigning to XFree86.
The savage driver has just been updated. Please try the new XFree86 release found at: ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/testing/bleeding-edge/XFree86 You'll want to get the XFree86-4.1.0-1.1 release.
Fixed in XFree86-4.1.0-1.1
Will XFree86-4.1.0-1.1 be in RH 7.2 gold?