Fedora Test 2 will not log in to Gnome?

[Alexander Larsson]

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 03:07, Jim Cornette wrote:
> Sean Earp wrote:
> > Hello all-
> > 
> > I have not been able to install Fedora Test 2 since it came out (RH 9 
> > and Severn Beta 1 worked just fine).  Today I tried installation with 
> > the updated Anaconda, and it works. (great!)
> > 
> > However, on the first boot after installation, I can not log on to the 
> > Gnome desktop.  KDE works just fine.   The interesting thing is that I 
> > chose the customized install, and had Gnome checked, and KDE UNCHECKED. 
> >  Just in case I missed something, I have formatted the drive 3 times and 
> > reinstalled, making SURE that gnome was selected, and KDE was not.  When 
> > I attempt to log in to gnome, the screen exhibits the same behavior as 
> > if i choose the "restart X Server" option on the login screen.  Is 
> > anyone else experiencing this?  Can someone give me the command line 
> > option to verify that Gnome is even installed? (I'm a linux newbie, so 
> > be gentle)  Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks,
> > 
> > -Sean
> > 
> > 
> 
> When I installed Severn beta1, I could not get GNOME to get further than 
> the splash screen startup. This problem was related to the interaction 
> with my 3Com ethernet. After the card was replaced with a 2 yr newer 
> 3com NIC GNOME, Mozilla and a host of other problems went away.
> 
> My guess is that GNOME is outputting to /dev/lockup (in my case it was 
> my NIC). Basically, I assume that the program is outputting, but not 
> even to a bit bucket (AKA - like windows blue screen.)

This is very interesting. Was this a 3c590 NIC?

If so, i'm getting the same on my card. See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98832

It seems to be a kudzu bug, but bill couldn't reproduce it on his 3c590.
Getting more data might make this fixable.

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