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Description of problem: The system completely locks up when graphics starts. The VGA text console is unchanging, there is no response to mouse or keyboard (including Ctrl-Alt-Del), there is no disk activity for over one minute. Serial console shows nothing. Hardware reset is the only thing recognized. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mesa-dri-drivers-7.12-0.3.fc17.i686 mesa-dri-filesystem-7.12-0.3.fc17.i686 mesa-libGL-7.12-0.3.fc17.i686 mesa-libGLU-7.12-0.3.fc17.i686 kernel-PAE-3.2.0-0.rc2.git1.1.fc17.i686 xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.14.3-2.fc17.i686 xorg-x11-drv-fbdev-0.4.2-4.fc17.i686 xorg-x11-drv-vesa-2.3.0-11.fc17.i686 xorg-x11-server-Xephyr-1.11.99.1-6.20111109.fc17.i686 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.11.99.1-6.20111109.fc17.i686 How reproducible: every time (three times so far) Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot to multi-user. Or, boot to single user, then issue "startx". 2. 3. Actual results: Complete system lockup. Expected results: Normal graphics login screen. Additional info: Did not hang until "yum update" this morning. "yum downgrade" of corereponding mesa-* and xorg-* packages [under Rescue mode of DVD] said that only upgrade was available. 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01) I will attach serial console log, Xorg.0.log, tail of yum.log.
Created attachment 534430 [details] /var/tmp/Xorg.0.log
Created attachment 534431 [details] serial console output captured by minicom
Created attachment 534433 [details] tail of /var/log/yum.log Packages updated this morning. System did not lockup before these updates. "yum downgrade <packages>" [via Rescue mode] claims that only upgrade is available.
Created attachment 534834 [details] /var/log/Xorg.1.log Today's rawhide allows access via ssh. kernel-PAE-3.2.0-0.rc2.git4.1.fc17.i686 Xorg.[12345].log are present and are the same except for timestamp and VTn. syslog in /var/log/messages has: Nov 21 10:00:34 f17r32 gdm-binary[708]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 2.291229 seconds Nov 21 10:00:35 f17r32 gdm-binary[708]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 1.286683 seconds Nov 21 10:00:37 f17r32 gdm-binary[708]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 1.764947 seconds Nov 21 10:00:38 f17r32 gdm-binary[708]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 1.331408 seconds Nov 21 10:00:40 f17r32 gdm-binary[708]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 1.640701 seconds Nov 21 10:00:41 f17r32 gdm-binary[708]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 1.036394 seconds Nov 21 10:00:41 f17r32 gdm-binary[708]: WARNING: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: maximum number of X display failures reached: check X server log for errors
The complete graphics hang no longer occurs with today's rawhide: kernel-PAE-3.2.0-0.rc2.git6.1.fc17.i686 Still crashing often are gnome-shell (bug 756062) and gvfs-fuse (bug 756063).