On Wed, 18 Mar 2015, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Max Pyziur <pyz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Recently, I "fresh installed" F21 on a Dell i686 Inspiron Laptop.
I had been running F18 on it, and just wanted to jump to the newest release
w/o stepping through F19 and F20. I kept the /home partition, and wiped
everything else out.
Xfce and Mate Desktops start and are very functional.
Any variant of Gnome (new version and Classic) reports an equivalent
screen-of-death with the message reading "A problem has occurred, and the
system can't recover."
I have a Dell Latitude D600 circa ~2002, also i686. It's just a dog
with Gnome Shell. I don't depend on this for production use, so I'm
just running Fedora Server on it mainly and to test i686 stuff for QA.
Xfce is much more realistic to use.
What happens if you boot with boot parameter nomodeset? Another
possibility is to add boot parameter 3, to boot in runlevel
3/multi-user.target/no graphical boot. Then do a yum upgrade right
away. There's a much newer kernel, and hence video drivers, now than
when Fedora 21 shipped as well as a lot of gnome updates that could be
related. After the upgrade, reboot normally and see if the problem is
solved.
I installed F21 a month ago, and I've kept up with the updates. So
whatever kernel that's in use is the latest one.
My attention to this is periodic; but I would like to resolve it so that I
know that I can install F21 w/ no worries on my two x68_64s, machines on
which I'm reliant.
I'll try the command line changes that you suggest.
The /var/log/messages file is very extensive;
Fedora 21 Workstation doesn't come with rsyslogd, so there shoudn't be
a /var/log/messages. Fedora 21 Server does.
When I first Installed F21, I just defaulted to whatever was offered on
the Workstation DVD, making sure that I kept my /home partition.
After that, I did several "groupinstalls" in part hoping to remedy this
Gnome problem, and also wanting to have Xfce and Mate.
So, in one of those "groupinstalls" I could have also gotten rsyslogd
installed and running (I can't imagine not having it.).
Max Pyziur
pyz@xxxxxxxxx
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