Starting udev graphics issue

[Richard Hughes]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Devon Harding <devonharding at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm running a fedora 10 on Microsoft Virtual Server R2

Non free...

> (Which I converted

Unsupported...

> from VMWare

Non free...

> When it gets to the point where it says "Starting udev..."
> the screen gets corrupted with a bunch of vertical green lines and only
> displays text on the top half of the screen.  The system still boots as I
> can see the logon prompt at the top when it's finished.  I can logon, but
> cannot do anything as I cannot see the rest of the screen. What causes this
> and how can I fix it?

Sounds like the virtual display adaptor isn't supported (or isn't well
supported by X).

You could report it in bugzilla, but due to VS and VMWare being closed
source, I'm not sure you'll get much developer attention.

Richard.