David Vanfleet writes:
Hi,
I'm trying to get Fedora core 6 installed on my system and I'm having
some
problems. I got through the initial installation, got to the part where
it
tells me to remove the media and reboot the system to continue. When the
system reboots it locks up at the time that X windows starts (or shortly
after). I see the "X" curser for only a moment then it goes away and I
get
a blank screen and nothing else. I then booted up the system in "rescue"
mode and manually started X Windows without any problems (running
startx).
I'm upgrading this system from Fedora Core 4, which has been running
without problems for some time.
Any ideas what could be happening here? Any help here would be
appreciated.
Could be many things. The first thing to try is to boot into run level 4,
log in as root, and run "system-config-display --reconfig". This will
give
you a fresh X configuration. You can boot into run level 4 by pressing
'E'
at the grub prompt, instead of pressing <Enter> or waiting for grub's
default timeout to expire, pressing 'E' again to edit the kernel boot
arguments, and appending <space>4 to the end, then <Enter>, then 'B' to
boot
the kernel.
If that doesn't fix it, boot into run level 4, and look in
/var/log/Xorg.0.log for clues (don't use the rescue disk again, starting X
in rescue mode will wipe out Xorg.0.log).
If you're using non-free binary blobs from Nvidia or ATI, remove them, and
reinstall all X rpms, to fix any breakage.
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Sam, thanks for your quick responce. I tried what you suggested above but I
got the same result when I tried to boot into run level 4. Right before the
system tries to start X the following is displayed in the console, I'm not
sure what comes after udev but I wonder if that's the problem:
Setting Clock OK
Starting udev OK
The only way I could get logged in to look at the Xorg.0.log file was to
boot into rescue mode again. When I did that I found the following warnings
and errors:
(WW) No monitor specified for screen "Screen0".
Using a default monitor configuration.
(WW) The core pointer device wasn't specified explicitly in the layout.
Using the default mouse configuration.
(WW) No FontPath specified. Using compiled-in default.
(==) FontPath set to:
unix/:7100,
built-ins
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
(EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
(II) Loading local sub module "GLcore"
(II) LoadModule: "GLcore"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so
(II) Module GLcore: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3
(WW) <default pointer>: No Device specified, looking for one...
(II) <default pointer>: Setting Device option to "/dev/input/mice"
(--) <default pointer>: Device: "/dev/input/mice"
(==) <default pointer>: Protocol: "Auto"
Then the very last line of this file says:
Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!
Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
David
