James,
On 2011-05-07 01:36, James Laska wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 23:29 +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>> People,
>>
>> On my Gateway LT30 netbook, I am still getting similar problems to the
>> one I got after the Beta XFCE Live CD version install to HD. This time
>> I tried installing using the Fedora-15-i386-netinst.iso from a USB stick
>> doing:
>>
>> 1. a minimal system
>> and
>> 2. a Graphical Desktop System
>>
>> 1. I was able to install the minimal system OK and then setup networking
>> and install:
>>
>> - Xorg
>> - vesa driver
>> - fb driver
>>
>> and groupinstall XFCE.
>>
>> However I kept getting "/dev/fb0" does not exist errors (it does exist)
>> when trying to start X.
>
> Make sure you installed the appropriate xorg-x11-drv-* package that
> matches your hardware. Does /var/log/Xorg.0.log provide any additional
> guidance about what might be missing/broken?
Now that I have re-installed I can't look at the log file but from
memory it didn't have anything much use in it but see below . .
>> 2. The Graphical Desktop version takes a lot longer to install (I think
>> there should be a "light" graphical install equivalent to the Live CD
>> version) but it eventually finishes however on rebooting I get:
>
> As I'm sure you know, it takes longer because it's installing more
> packages. Comparing install time from a live image and a real install
> is comparing apples and oranges. The cool thing about live images, is
> all the dependency resolution and package installation is done when the
> image is created. The live install just slaps that down onto the
> system. The drawback/benefit (depending on your point of view) is there
> is no install-time package customization.
I did know all that - the point I was trying to make is that it would be
nice to have a much "lighter" graphical install.
> During a normal installation, the dependency resolution and package
> install happens as you install the system. And depending on the
> packages you choose, disk speed, network speed etc... it can take
> longer.
>
>> Starting sm-client [OK]
>> [OK]
>> Mounting other filesystems: mount: devpts already mounted or /dev/pts busy
>> mount: sysfs already mounted or /sys busy
>> [FAILED]
>
> Not sure if this is already filed, but we'd need to track this is a
> distinct bug report.
>
>> Starting PC-SC Smartcrd (pcscd) [OK]
>> [OK]
>> Reloading sendmail [OK]
>> Reloading sm-client [OK]
>>
>> and then hangs again (very much like what I got after the Beta XFCE Live
>> CD version install to HD).
>
> What can you determine the system is doing at this point? Do you get
> login shells on other tty's?
Interestingly (I didn't even bother to check this before) I do have
logins on the other tty's (even though tty1 is completely unresponsive)
and the network is running so I can do local and remote logins but
something obviously hasn't finished properly - df gives:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 9851308 3500900 5849988 38% /
udev 501476 0 501476 0% /dev
tmpfs 508372 0 508372 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 508372 676 507696 1% /run
/dev/sda7 9851308 3500900 5849988 38% /
tmpfs 508372 0 508372 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 508372 0 508372 0% /media
/dev/sda7 9851308 3500900 5849988 38% /tmp
/dev/sda7 9851308 3500900 5849988 38% /var/tmp
/dev/sda7 9851308 3500900 5849988 38% /home
I have different linuxes in different partitions and the grub2 setup for
this one is now:
menuentry "/dev/sda7 Fedora 15" {
set root=(hd0,7)
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38.5-22.fc15.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/sda7
initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.38.5-22.fc15.i686.PAE.img
}
- I think I have had problems with PAE kernels before on this machine?
> Do you get more info if you boot without
> "rhgb quiet"? What is your default systemd start-up
> (`ll /lib/systemd/system/default.target`)?
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 16 May 5 19:58
/lib/systemd/system/default.target -> graphical.target
> Can you login remotely when
> the hang occurs, to see what the system is doing?
Yes and trying to startx gives the same problem as before - from
/var/log/Xorg.0.log:
[ 20014.264] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fbdev_drv.so
[ 20014.264] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfbdevhw.so
[ 20014.320] (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such device
[ 20014.320] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev
[ 20014.321] (II) UnloadModule: "vesa"
[ 20014.321] (II) Unloading vesa
[ 20014.321] (II) UnloadModule: "fbdev"
[ 20014.321] (II) Unloading fbdev
[ 20014.321] (II) UnloadModule: "fbdevhw"
[ 20014.321] (II) Unloading fbdevhw
[ 20014.321] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
[ 20014.321]
Fatal server error:
[ 20014.321] no screens found
- again, /dev/fb0 does actually exist . .
Thanks,
Phil.
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