Description of problem: I need help after a failed fedup run to upgrade 17 to 18. fedup did its work before installation, after reboot it did work for a long time rebooted and came back into 17 but without X. I managed to fix the issue by using yum distrosynch and fixing package conflicts manually. Now I am back to an 90% running system. I miss only a few important features: - Changing a user does not work sometimes (logoff current user => the login screen does not come, it seems as if X does not restart) - Shutdown does hang sometimes and gives me dumps showing the CPU and the stack of which programs are running Which packages contain these features? I guess, that these issues are caused by the failed update. What can I do? What do you need to help me?
I have made some checks. I can change the users several times, but finally it fails by sending me to the boot messages screen. (CTRL+ALT+F1). My messages file says frequently: WARNING: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: maximum number of X display failures reached: check X server log for errors The x logs have two errors: Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found) This one comes up, when I try to start up a session with my plugable USB thin client. And Unable to open evdev device "/dev/input/event#" (# = [3-7]) Maybe I can change users as long as I have available "slots". At the end I have to change to runlevel 1 and back to 5 to be able to login again. This morning I have reinstalled all drivers, the x server and much more. This did not help.
The basesystem package is just a meta-package that has nothing to do with your issue. I am switching the component to xorg-x11-server...
I have digged more into the deep: although the thin client is using modesetting, fbdev,udev it is trying to use the nvidia driver. It fails to load the GLX extensions and displays the distortions (remainders of paint actions, mainly thin horizontal stripes about 30 dots long and traces of the mouse pointer). When I remove the nvidia driver, the distorsions are gone, but the refresh rate is unacceptable slow. (beside, I need nvidia for my other applications) In the case without nvidia rpms installed, I have no error messages in the xorg log file.
Created attachment 701983 [details] xorg log with nvidia installed this is the case when the distortions appear
Created attachment 701984 [details] xorg log withOUT nvidia installed This is the case without nvidia installed on the system. No distortions but SLOW
The issue is still there...
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