Bug 601164 - anaconda freeze on GeForce3 Ti with "could not open display"
Summary: anaconda freeze on GeForce3 Ti with "could not open display"
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
Version: 13
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ben Skeggs
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-06-07 11:36 UTC by Andrey
Modified: 2011-06-07 12:48 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 14
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-06-07 12:48:16 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
GF3Ti200 and nouveau (9.56 KB, text/plain)
2010-07-01 12:13 UTC, Andrey
no flags Details
no nomodeset and vga options (11.97 KB, text/plain)
2010-07-03 22:04 UTC, Andrey
no flags Details
have nomodeset, no vga (9.55 KB, text/plain)
2010-07-03 22:05 UTC, Andrey
no flags Details
dmesg (25.42 KB, text/plain)
2010-07-05 21:59 UTC, Andrey
no flags Details
Xorg.0.log by nouveau (35.18 KB, text/plain)
2010-07-05 22:04 UTC, Andrey
no flags Details
xorg.conf for all x-drivers (12.44 KB, text/plain)
2010-07-05 22:14 UTC, Andrey
no flags Details
Xorg.0.log contain probable error (31.42 KB, text/plain)
2010-07-07 17:54 UTC, Andrey
no flags Details
Xorg.0.log, noaccel, xorg.conf (64.63 KB, text/plain)
2010-07-08 21:50 UTC, Andrey
no flags Details

Description Andrey 2010-06-07 11:36:27 UTC
Description of problem:
I am updating from 12 to 13 with preupgrade or DVD.iso(Install or upgrade existing).
Anaconda freeze every time on switching to graphical mode.
Last message in third console "could not open display. switching back to text mode"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
13 and same problem in f12(anaconda 12.46)

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Prepare all by preupgrade, press "Reboot now". Or boot from dvd.
2. select Upgrade (to f13) in grub
3. go to switching in graphical mode
  
Actual results:
black screen

Expected results:
window with Next button

Additional info:
video card agp4 Chaintech GeForce3 Ti 200 64Mb
upgrading only in vesa mode on dvd(install with basic video driver). it install not grub correctly, but already another problem(need boot Rescue then grub-install /dev/sdb, reboot).

Comment 1 Vedran Miletić 2010-06-07 15:03:30 UTC
This is graphics driver issue. Reassigning to correct component.

Comment 2 Andrey 2010-06-09 11:21:48 UTC
could not open display - driver issue
switching back to text mode - anaconda not returning in work. computer respond on reset only

Comment 3 Ben Skeggs 2010-06-09 22:55:44 UTC
Okay.  My guess is the preupgrade doesn't update all the necessary bits at the same time before it reboots.

Nouveau had an ABI change between F12 and F13, *all* the driver bits need updating for it to work.  So if this is the case, it's a CANTFIX from me, but maybe the preupgrade people can do something?

What do you see (after reboot) from: "rpm -q kernel libdrm xorg-x11-drv-nouveau"?

Comment 4 Andrey 2010-06-15 13:26:32 UTC
I have F13 already in last updated state.
I dont use nouveau driver in F11, 12, 13.
If i install it now in f13 then X dont start.

Comment 5 Ben Skeggs 2010-06-23 15:32:20 UTC
My question in comment #3 still stands.  And, you /var/log/Xorg.0.log from a failed X log would be great in seeing what is going wrong...

Comment 6 Andrey 2010-07-01 12:08:56 UTC
For this time, nothing about installation:

[root@fedora ~]# rpm -q kernel libdrm xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
kernel-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686
kernel-2.6.33.5-112.fc13.i686
kernel-2.6.33.5-124.fc13.i686
libdrm-2.4.20-1.fc13.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-7.20100423git13c1043.fc13.i686

Comment 7 Andrey 2010-07-01 12:13:31 UTC
Created attachment 428368 [details]
GF3Ti200 and nouveau

nothing about the bug on installation

Comment 8 Ben Skeggs 2010-07-01 22:05:22 UTC
Remove nomodeset and vga= parameters from your boot options...  Nouveau can't work without nomodeset in F13, and vga= is useless with nouveau loaded.

Comment 9 Andrey 2010-07-03 22:02:37 UTC
"Remove" and "can't work without"?
vga= for good resolution in console.
Presence "nomodeset" have not effect. But logs is different. Attache.

Comment 10 Andrey 2010-07-03 22:04:26 UTC
Created attachment 429301 [details]
no nomodeset and vga options

Comment 11 Andrey 2010-07-03 22:05:33 UTC
Created attachment 429302 [details]
have nomodeset, no vga

Comment 12 Ben Skeggs 2010-07-04 22:57:23 UTC
Without nomodeset you'll *get* a good console resolution from nouveau itself if things are working.

Something else does appear to be up, can I see a kernel log *without* nomodeset and vga=

Thanks :)

Comment 13 Andrey 2010-07-05 21:59:21 UTC
Created attachment 429619 [details]
dmesg

After
Jul 05 23:51:41 Erased: kmod-nvidia-2.6.33.5-112.fc13.i686.PAE
Jul 05 23:51:52 Erased: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
Jul 05 23:51:54 Erased: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs

Comment 14 Andrey 2010-07-05 22:04:36 UTC
Created attachment 429620 [details]
Xorg.0.log by nouveau

with mesa-dri-drivers-experimental-7.8.1-6.fc13.i686 too

Comment 15 Andrey 2010-07-05 22:14:39 UTC
Created attachment 429621 [details]
xorg.conf for all x-drivers

if nouveau instead vesa then system stop in console. need reset
boot display equal approximately 1/4 of monitor after switch to 1268x1024
resolution in console changing after NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.16-pkg1.run --uninstall

Comment 16 Ben Skeggs 2010-07-05 23:22:12 UTC
So, those last two logs, what exactly is wrong?  There's no "could not open display" in those logs..

Comment 17 Andrey 2010-07-06 19:43:10 UTC
I'm sorry.
All 6 log files are wrong. I think, in the beginning official nvidia drivers prevent nouveau. Now files dmesg, Xorg.0.log, kdm.log are empty after the press reset. I boot from DVD and see it.

File /var/log/messages contain
"Jul  6 20:01:25 fedora kernel: imklog 4.4.2, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Jul  6 20:01:25 fedora rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.4.2" x-pid="962" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] 
(re)start
Jul  6 20:01:25 fedora kernel: Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
Jul  6 20:01:25 fedora kernel: Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
Jul  6 20:01:25 fedora kernel: Linux version 2.6.33.5-124.fc13.i686.PAE (mockbuild.fedoraproject.org) (gcc versi
on 4.4.4 20100503 (Red Hat 4.4.4-2) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Fri Jun 11 09:42:24 UTC 2010
Jul  6 20:01:25 fedora kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Jul  6 20:01:25 fedora kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
Jul  6 20:01:25 fedora kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Jul  6 20:01:25 fedora kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
Jul  6 20:01:25 fedora kernel: BIOS-"

File dmesg look like above with vesa.

System freeze on switch to graphical mode.

Problem in hardware? Continue to use official driver?

Comment 18 Ben Skeggs 2010-07-06 23:45:33 UTC
I'm still confused what is happening.  The vesa driver *will* cause the system to hang if you've got nouveau KMS (so, no nomodeset) running.

Can you:
1) make sure the nvidia binary driver is uninstalled
2) delete your /etc/X11/xorg.conf 
3) remove nomodeset
4) reboot

And see what happens?

Comment 19 Andrey 2010-07-07 17:54:31 UTC
Created attachment 430137 [details]
Xorg.0.log contain probable error

1-4 done.
startx -> black screen, no keyboard, but disk LED blink
"EQ overflowing" is first time. Maybe it's effect of Ctrl+Alt+Del in this loop. I pressed these keys on black screen and on "decelerating NumLock".

Comment 20 Andrey 2010-07-07 19:29:13 UTC
in additional, i erased mesa-dri-drivers-experimental.i686 befor this log

Comment 21 Ben Skeggs 2010-07-07 23:08:08 UTC
Ok, it looks like the GPU probably hung for some reason.  You might be able to work around with "nouveau.noaccel=1" in your boot options for now.

What did you do differently in the log from comment 14?  The GPU seems happy there.

Comment 22 Andrey 2010-07-08 21:50:23 UTC
Created attachment 430489 [details]
Xorg.0.log, noaccel, xorg.conf

Nice option! :) X start on boot, by startx, w/o xorg.conf. Thank you!
In login manager got segfault on console login. I can to show log.
The game supertux is very slow.

I think, the difference is in using conf file and noaccel. In attache you can to see the continue of log from comment #4.

Where to point options AddARGBGLXVisuals, Composite, etc without xorg.conf? Will it work with noaccel? Will this option forever? :)

Comment 23 Andrey 2010-07-08 21:54:26 UTC
Comment on attachment 430489 [details]
Xorg.0.log, noaccel, xorg.conf

Nice option! :) X start on boot, by startx, w/o xorg.conf. Thank you!
In login manager got segfault on console login. I can to show log.
The game supertux is very slow.

I think, the difference is in using conf file and noaccel. In attache you can
to see the continue of log from comment 14.

Where to point options AddARGBGLXVisuals, Composite, etc without xorg.conf?
Will it work with noaccel? Will this option forever? :)

Comment 24 Ben Skeggs 2010-07-09 02:59:42 UTC
Those options are for the NVIDIA binary driver and aren't relevant to nouveau at all.

Comment 25 Andrey 2010-07-10 09:46:27 UTC
Thank you, Ben. I will wait correction in driver.

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