There's definitely a bug here! First try, I removed nomodeset and I got the expected fedora infinity and everything went well, just like in f23 and just like in the regular anaconda installer on the live CD, except... GDM never starts! The computer just hangs. I cannot use ESC to switch to the text output, I cannot ctrl-alt to another virtual terminal. I think the kernel crashes just at the point when GDM is supposed t kick in. This is exactly what happened when I booted the f24 live CD and that is why I had to choose the graphics lite installer from the troubleshooting menu. To get more information, as Chris suggested, I tried a second time, this time removing not just nomodeset, but also rhgb and quiet. The tex flashed by so quickly, that I couldn't read anything long enough to remember what it said, but it all looked good (having stared at this output 1000 times before). At sme pint, what I presume to be the framebuffer kicked in and the font whent smaller and it had a nice graphical look and in colour. Then, suddenly, after a line appeared about GDM having started, or something like that, the screen flashed momentarily and new text appeared, all in white on black, with the name of my computer, Compaq, at the top. A fifth of the way down the screen, there is a heading Call Trace followed by three lines and then Stack followed by the rest of the screen. Page Up/Page Down do nothing and the computer is hung. (The previous boot, when I had removed nomodeset, but left in rhgb and quiet, I couldn't switch to text with ESC, as I had indicated above, but I followed up with a regular boot without changing the linux16 line in the grub menu and the first message that appeared on the Gnome desktop after logging in was that /boot/vmlinuz-xxxx had crashed. I presume that this information had been left over from the previous boot, sine I had the same thing happen last night when I tried to start KDE Plasma and got the black screen, then logged out and into Gnome and received a message stating that Plasma had crashed. Somehow, these messages from the previous boot and previous login get sent to the Gnome desktop on the subsequent login.) -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
