fedora-xo 20090510 does not start X server
Mikus Grinbergs
mikus at bga.com
Mon May 11 21:05:54 UTC 2009
> Can you try adding a "rootdelay=300" to the kernel command line in the
> olpc.fth and see if that helps the issues your seeing when you have
> usb devices attached?
Added that to three different XO-1 machines:
* rawhide-xo 20090416 (USB): This system was giving me lots of
trouble this morning: first with stalls during boot-up at the
"unknown filesystem" message, and later in the morning with stalls
during boot-up after showing the "Loading ramdisk" message. Just
now did multiple boot-ups after adding "rootdelay=300". When I had
taken the system down with 'Restart', boot-up came up into Sugar the
way it was supposed to.
But when I then took the system down with 'Shutdown', the system
would always stall during boot-up after showing the "Loading
ramdisk" message. Had to completely re-flash that system (I now
installed rawhide-xo 20090426, since that was the most recent
rawhide-xo that worked). On the first couple of boot-up attempts,
the new build stalled at the "unknown filesystem" message. By
repeatedly trying, I got past that point and added "rootdelay=300".
After that, it did not stall with the "unknown filesystem" message.
This system still all too often gets the boot-up stall after showing
the "Loading ramdisk" message. Luckily, pulling the USB devices
(and trying and trying) eventually allowed me to boot-up. Since it
takes me more than an hour of my time to re-flash (and re-customize)
the system once I can't make headway against these boot-up stalls,
please don't ask me again to try to create such error situations.
* rawhide-xo 20090426 (nothing in USB sockets): This system has
not recently experienced any stalls during boot-up. But this
morning boot-up on this system had trouble starting Sugar (but not
Gnome). Added "rootdelay=300" and now several boot-ups went
correctly into Sugar. [This experience shows the __difficulty__ of
looking for patterns of behavior -- I have no idea whether Sugar now
being able to start easily was happenstance, or was caused by
something having changed within this system.]
* rawhide-xo 20090510 (USB): The last time this system showed me
the "unknown filesystem" message was once - right after installing
20090510. Since then, boot-up has not stalled for me on this
system, neither before nor after adding "rootdelay=300". But for me
20090510 does not start the X server, whether or not "rootdelay=300"
has been added.
Bottom line: Seems to help; does not hurt; needs more experience.
mikus
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