Bug 679483 - Stuck in loop trying to reach desktop at login
Summary: Stuck in loop trying to reach desktop at login
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
Version: 15
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ben Skeggs
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-02-22 17:09 UTC by Daniel Ashton
Modified: 2018-04-11 09:02 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2012-02-06 17:35:33 UTC
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Description Daniel Ashton 2011-02-22 17:09:21 UTC
Description of problem:
Nouveau testing Feb 22 '11 using Live USB x86_64.  Login screen comes up OK, but gets stuck in loop trying to bring up desktop, failing, going back to login screen.  This is on Lenovo ThinkPad T61 with Nvidia driver.
  http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_80dd17c0-d3c2-4acd-a3f6-8033101f9a3c

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How reproducible:
Boot, wait for automatic login

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
Login screen vanishes, white rectangle fills upper-left quadrant of both screens (laptop and external monitor) for a few seconds, then return to login screen.

Expected results:
Desktop (either new shell or F14-like Gnome) should appear

Additional info:

Comment 1 Daniel Ashton 2011-02-22 17:32:29 UTC
Bug (loop) does not occur without an external monitor.  Removed external monitor and was able to reach new F15 desktop.

Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2011-03-01 21:29:21 UTC
Thanks for the bug report.  We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue.

Please add drm.debug=0x04 to the kernel command line, restart computer, and attach

* your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf, if available),
* X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log)
* output of the dmesg command, and
* system log (/var/log/messages)

to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link above.

We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information.

Thanks in advance.

Comment 3 Luigi Pardey 2012-02-05 16:05:32 UTC
Reporter, could you please reply to the previous question? If you won't reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.



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Comment 4 Daniel Ashton 2012-02-06 16:12:47 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Reporter, could you please reply to the previous question? If you won't reply
> in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.

Please close it for now: I won't have time to recreate this in the near future.

Comment 5 Luigi Pardey 2012-02-06 17:35:33 UTC
Okay. Bug closed.


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