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Created attachment 533324 [details] lspci Description of problem: The livecd worked good. I was using gnome-shell. The install went smooth. After a reboot, Plymouth bootloader came up with the Fedora logo just fine. After that I just saw a blank screen and could move the mouse pointer. I don't think firstboot was working. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 16 x86_64 GFX Hardware: 0f:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [Quadro FX 380] (rev a1) The following output in /var/log/messages looked suspicious: Nov 13 00:03:07 fedora firstboot[1245]: Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0xc00031 (firstboot) Nov 13 00:03:07 fedora firstboot[1245]: Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
Created attachment 533325 [details] /var/log/messages
Created attachment 533326 [details] /var/log/Xorg.9.log
Do you have an initramfs file in /boot? In my case this was missing and let to panic during the boot.
@Sammy Yes, there is initramfs-3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64.img under /boot. In fact, the system can start up just fine. I can log in as root on a VT. The problem is that the /usr/sbin/firstboot just shows a blank screen with a mouse pointer.
I now believe that firstboot does not support my graphics card using the nouveau driver. I know that nouveau works because the LiveCD comes up with gnome-shell just fine without falling back to classic mode. It is usable and I can install Fedora using it. Another reason I know that nouveau works just fine is that when firstboot comes up and the screen goes blank, pressing CTRL+BACKSPACE kills firstboot and actually brings up gdm. The gdm works without any problems and looks fine. After some work, I have developed a workaround. 1) I first boot up with "rdblacklist=nouveau nomodeset" in the grub configuration. This allows firstboot to appear. I can then set proceed with post-installation Fedora configuration. 2) After firstboot is complete, I remove the added terms from the grub configuration, allowing the nouveau driver to work as normal.
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