Latest updates break graphic start of Fedora

Antonio M antonio.montagnani at gmail.com
Wed Jul 9 14:22:27 UTC 2008


2008/7/9 Antonio M <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com>:
> 2008/7/7 Antonio M <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com>:
>> 2008/7/7 Mike Burger <mburger at bubbanfriends.org>:
>>>
>>>> On Saturday 05 July 2008 16:06:32 Antonio M wrote:
>>>
>>>> So are you saying that you tried the existing alternative kernel, offered
>>>> in
>>>> grub, but that no longer worked?  That would be very peculiar indeed.
>>>>
>>>> OK - I've read your bug report.  I don't believe that there is any way
>>>> that
>>>> installing a new kernel would break the existing ones.  You almost
>>>> certainly
>>>> have something else going on.  You may well have to wait to see whether
>>>> anyone else identifies the problem.  FWIW, 2.6.25.9-76.fc9.i686 is one of
>>>> the
>>>> kernels you mention, and it certainly works on my Fedora box.
>>>
>>> Anne:
>>>
>>> Please see some of my contribution to this thread.
>>>
>>> I'm having a similar issue to Antonio's...I've got a fully updated F9
>>> install, and I noted that as of a couple of kernel releases ago, my
>>> workstation, which boots to runlevel 5, does not actually appear to start
>>> up the X desktop either.  Instead, it switches to TTY7 with a blank screen
>>> and blinking cursor.
>>>
>>> What I need to do, to get around this, is ALT-F1, log in, init 3 and then
>>> init 5 in order to get the system to actually bring up the X login screen.
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>>
>> Mike,
>>
>> have you read my final report saying that I have eventually solved the
>> problem??? It was a graphic driver from test-updates that was causing
>> the problem: now I have gone back to a fully F9 system and evrrything
>> is o.k. For my info, which graphic card do you use???
>>
>>
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>> Antonio Montagnani
>> Skype : antoniomontag
>>
>
> Warning
> and same driver has been pushed to the rawhide repo!!!! I will file a
> bug against it!!!!
>
>
>
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> Antonio Montagnani
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>

sorry...

I mean to the F9 updates repo!!!

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