fedora-xo 20090510 does not start X server

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Mon May 11 17:00:48 UTC 2009


>   > There's been some issues recently (mostly with usb I think) with
>   > some of the fast boot features that have come from the Intel
>   > Moblin patchset. I'm not sure whether this could be coming into
>   > play or whether I have got completely the wrong end of the
>   > stick.
>
> The part that has me most confused is that the specific error
> message we get from mount should only ever appear if jffs2 is not in
> /proc/filesystems, which should only ever happen if the kernel module
> wasn't loaded.  The kernel module obviously is loaded sometimes, since
> boot works sometimes, but somehow not on the failing boots.  I wonder
> what's responsible for loading it; whether it's the initrd scripts or
> mount itself that calls modprobe jffs2.

If you install the nash package (if its not there anyway) there's a
lsinitrd command that gives you the contents of the initrd package
including the initrd script that's run. Maybe there's been a change in
the order of the script or something.

Peter




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