rescue isos for use with today's rawhide

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Tue Jan 22 12:02:01 UTC 2008


On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:41:04 -0600
Mike Chambers <mike at miketc.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 16:19 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 00:44 -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 03:20:22PM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > > > In anticipation of the Alpha freeze tonight, I created a couple rescue
> > > > isos with an updated dhcpv6client package.  Using these rescue.isos you
> > > > can install today's rawhide.  Just choose to install vs rescue, and
> > > > pick the URL method and point to your friendly rawhide mirror (or nfs
> > > > and your local mirror).  Please yell and scream if you have issues with
> > > > your install (:
> > > 
> > > Installed fine to an encrypted PV, rhgb works fine, firstboot came up 
> > > okay (but rootpassword.py crashed: bz #429243) but when X starts, I 
> > > get a black screen with a bit of graphical detrius along the top inch 
> > > or so, gdm doesn't display, and the console locks up hard.  The mouse 
> > > still moves, though.  Can't change VTs.  X refuses to be killed from a 
> > > remote SSH session.  chvt hangs.  I think this bug needs some love 
> > > before Alpha is released, as a lot of us have Radeon chips:
> > > 
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427000
> > 
> > Its only x600s that seem to have this problem, so you aren't a major
> > amount of people as you'd think :)
> > 
> > ajax reverted the kernel and libdrm pieces we think caused this in any
> > case.. hopefully they make it in to the alpha..
> 
> This (the fix) is already related to the below bug as well correct?
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428813

They seem to be related in symptom, yes.

josh




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