on Rawhide, screen goes black when X starts

[Niels Haase]

2009/7/10 Andre Robatino <andre at bwh.harvard.edu>:
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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.

Are you able to login with ssh to catch the log file?

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Regards,
Niels


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