Created attachment 657110 [details] The results of "rpm -qa -last". Description of problem: After the last system update, cold boots of Linux often hang, crash, or get font errors. Rebooting once or twice eventually ends up with a running system, but cut-and-paste with the mouse no longer works, and once every few hours, the screen flashes blank or garbage for a second and then comes back at a different brightness. I have an i5-based laptop with a radeon graphics chip. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 17 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.12.4-1.fc17 kernel-3.6.8-2.fc17 How reproducible: Try to boot Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot 2. 3. Actual results: Instead of showing a graphic screen with an "f" in a circle, it shows text on the screen about a font error and sometimes a panic or a message about not being able to start a CPU. This is the first time that I have ever had boot problems since I started using this laptop 3 months ago, and it came after installing the update, so I think that it is due to the update and not hardware. Expected results: A clean boot. Additional info:
Created attachment 657125 [details] Xorg.0.log from a successful boot Xorg.0.log from a successful boot. The failed boots don't seem to get far enough to leave a log. My laptop has 8GB RAM. I set /tmp to be tmpfs in /etc/fstab, but /var is a physical disk.
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