On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 22:30 -0600, kwhiskerz wrote: > I had installed F10 alpha on both of my computers and have been using > it for a while. All has been very good and I am very pleased with it. > > This Wednesday morning I yum updated both systems. I noticed that > there was a new X server, version 1.5.1-4 among the many 100s of MB of > downloads. Sadly, there was an absence of the new Intel drivers that > will enable the use of i915 modesetting with this great new X server. > Oh well, it will come when it's ready. > > This evening, I booted my desktop computer and the computer locked up > at the point where plymouth ends and the X server starts to log in, > via kdm. I could not even change to another virtual terminal. There > was nothing I could do but Alt-SysRq. > > I tried many times, using a slew of kernel options, like removing > rhgb, appending vga=0x318, using nomodeset and enforcing=0. All > variations failed. There was no way I could boot into X. > > Then I tired the other computer. The same story. No X. Just a dark > grey screen. > > I tried switching to gdm. I tried reverting to X server 1..5.1-2, > which worked just fine last night and this morning. I tried using the > previous kernel. I tried using a full xorg.conf instead of the minimal > xorg.conf that has been recommended recently (and worked great on both > computers). I tried no xorg.conf at all. Still no X. > > The problem appears not to be selinux, the usual culprit, nor the new > kernel, nor the most recent X server. It is something else in this > morning's spate of updates. > > I can telinit 3, but not startx. What to do? > > (The only way I am even able to write this message at all is that I > still have Fedora 9 on a spare partition on the desktop computer. The > laptop is now useless.) You need to get the newest intel driver from koji or wait until rawhide catches up. I got caught by the rawhide compose happening between a libdrm and intel driver update. I think I needed more conflicts/requires. Dave. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
