on Rawhide, screen goes black when X starts

[Andre Robatino]

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On 07/10/2009 05:04 PM, Antonio M wrote:
> 2009/7/10 Andre Robatino <andre at bwh.harvard.edu>:
>> On 07/09/2009 01:56 PM, Andre Robatino wrote:
>>> I have Rawhide running in VirtualBox.  For the last few weeks, at the
>>> time X starts, the screen goes black, and I am unable to get a login
>>> prompt, even in a VT.  This forces me to do updates each day in rescue
>>> mode, hoping the problem would go away eventually.  I'm currently using
>>> VB 3.0.0 but the problem started while using 2.2.4 (but the problem
>>> started with some Rawhide update, not a VB one).  Currently everything
>>> appears normal in Rawhide right up to the time X starts, and I can do an
>>> ACPI shutdown from VB, so the OS is responsive, even though the screen
>>> is black.  Any ideas what's wrong?
>> If I set the default runlevel in /etc/inittab to 3, then I can boot
>> Rawhide and end up with a normal text login prompt, and switch between
>> VTs at will.  However, startx results in a permanent black screen again,
>> with no change even if I try to switch to a VT.  The only indication of
>> responsiveness is that the ACPI shutdown initiated from VB works
>> normally.  At least this way I don't have to use rescue mode to apply
>> updates.
>>
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> 
> which is the driver that your system uses??
> Did you apply any update to the graphical server recently???
> Did you file a bug in bugzilla with all required informations about
> hardware and Xorg.log files???

I don't know which driver VirtualBox uses, and have not applied any
updates or installed any packages other than those from the Fedora
repos.  Since many people run early Rawhide on VB, I was hoping this was
a common enough problem that someone on this list would immediately
recognize what the problem was, but it seems that I'm the only one
having it.  I can't get Xorg.log output since after attempting to start
X, it's impossible to get a login prompt any more, even on a VT.

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