Bug 89540 - Upgrading from RH 7.2 to RH 8.0 , causes gdm to hang.
Summary: Upgrading from RH 7.2 to RH 8.0 , causes gdm to hang.
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: XFree86
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mike A. Harris
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-04-24 00:23 UTC by Shashank Khanvilkar
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:53 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-04-24 02:40:32 UTC
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Description Shashank Khanvilkar 2003-04-24 00:23:15 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)

Description of problem:
When using RH 7.2, a system restart would go throught the normal boot up 
process, associated with run level 5 and eventually bring the user to the GUI 
login screen. This login screen allowed the user to enter his name and password 
and select a session. 
When i upgraded to RH 8.0, and when i reboot the system, it goes through the 
nomal process again associated with run level 5, but after executing all the 
initialization scripts in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d, it goes on to execute a number of 
tty's and executes prefdm (which in turn executes gdm) which hangs..

I could not fins any suitable error in any of my log files.. 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-2.4.0.7-13

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Upgrade RH 7.2 with RH 8.0
2.Reboot the system after the upgrade is finished.
3.
    

Actual Results:  The System hangs at the console. I have to presss CNTL^C, 
twice to get to the console.. No GUI login screen is displayed.

Expected Results:  The GUI login screen should have been displayed.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2003-04-24 02:40:32 UTC
What you are describing is a "problem requiring technical support" rather
than a bug report.  There might actually be a bug somewhere, but it isn't
clear that there is one any more than it could simply be some misconfiguration
of some kind.

Also, gdm is not part of XFree86, it is part of GNOME.  Unless there is a
specific actual bug being reported, there isn't anything really that can
be investigated.

The only thing that I can think of off the top of my mind, is if you were
using unsupported video drivers, such as Nvidia or ATI binary drivers prior
to upgrading.  That would leave X configured to use drivers that don't work
with the new X, and would be an unsupported configuration, rather a
tech support issue than a bug.

I recommend joining our mailing lists and getting some technical support
on the issue, narrow down the problem and if it turns out to actually be
a defineable bug, then reopen this report with the details.






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