From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461) Description of problem: When running Gnome on RedHat 7.2 it locks up the machine. KDE works fine with the same configuration. The system is an HP Vectra VL6 Series 8 running at 350 MHz, 128 MB RAM, a 10/100 82559 InBusiness NIC, and a built-in AGP MGA 100 Productiva video card with 4MB RAM. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run startx to start Gnome desktop Actual Results: Gnome locks up the machine so that mouse and keyboard are totally unresponsive Expected Results: Gnome desktop should start normally Additional info: I built a 2.4.17 kernel and this resolved the problem, though it persists with either kernel provided for RedHat 7.2 via the RPM packages lspci -v output: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge (rev 02) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64 Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 1.0 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP bridge (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 128 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64 Memory behind bridge: fe000000-febfffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f6000000-f6ffffff 00:04.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 00:04.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master]) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64 I/O ports at fcf0 [size=16] 00:04.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 5 I/O ports at fcc0 [disabled] [size=32] 00:04.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82559 InBusiness 10/100 (rev 08) Subsystem: Intel Corporation 82559 InBusiness 10/100 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5 Memory at fecff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] I/O ports at fc40 [size=64] Memory at fed00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=1M] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G100 [Productiva] AGP (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA-G100 AGP Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at febf8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Memory at fe000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1 Capabilities: [f0] AGP version 1.0
Things I have tried to do to clarify what is causing the problem included: 1.) Upgraded to the latest BIOS provided by HP which had no effect 2.) Tried launching Gnome through VNC; this had no effect. I'm not sure the inner workings of X-Windows, and I guess my intent was to try and clear X- Windows, as I don't think it uses X-Windows, but as I said, I'm not sure at all about this statement. 3.) Turned off Power Management and suspend features in the BIOS. 4.) Tried different resolutions/color settings. KDE worked no matter the settings, but Gnome would lock up the machine, though it remained pingable. 5.) Removed the sound card in case of conflict or incompatibility which had no effect. After this I formatted the drive and reinstalled the machine clean again, wondering if perhaps something went wrong during the install. I tried starting up Gnome and again the same thing happened so I went on with troubleshooting the problem. 6.) Went into /root/.gnome/default.wm and changed the Window Manager to twm instead of Sawfish to no effect. 7.) Upgraded the kernel and all other updates available via up2date, to no effect 8.) Changed NIC card slot (only card plugged in now), to no effect 9.) Replaced NIC card with a different model, to no effect 10.) Someone on the Enigma mailing list suggested that it may be an W-Windows or Kernel problem. I was unable to try a different video card and dicern whether that was the culprit so I built a 2.4.17 kernel downloaded and compiled from www.kernel.org and this resolved the problem.
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