Bug 883164 - Fedora 17 crashes on cold boots after system update on 2 Dec 12 to xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.12.4-1.fc17 and kernel-3.6.8-2.fc17
Summary: Fedora 17 crashes on cold boots after system update on 2 Dec 12 to xorg-x11-s...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-server
Version: 17
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-12-03 23:00 UTC by William Bader
Modified: 2013-08-01 14:16 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-08-01 14:16:43 UTC
Type: Bug
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
The results of "rpm -qa -last". (181.06 KB, text/plain)
2012-12-03 23:00 UTC, William Bader
no flags Details
Xorg.0.log from a successful boot (43.76 KB, text/plain)
2012-12-03 23:11 UTC, William Bader
no flags Details

Description William Bader 2012-12-03 23:00:51 UTC
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:

Comment 1 William Bader 2012-12-03 23:11:50 UTC
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.

Comment 2 Fedora End Of Life 2013-07-04 04:40:02 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 17 is nearing its end of life.
Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining
and issuing updates for Fedora 17. It is Fedora's policy to close all
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Comment 3 Fedora End Of Life 2013-08-01 14:16:52 UTC
Fedora 17 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2013-07-30. Fedora 17 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
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