today's F9 update fails badly, anyone else?

[marko]

I did an update of my F9 installation this morning, it was originally installed off
the F9 preview disk for X86-64 and had been updated by yum/yumex
a few times. After today's update, I did a reboot and
the early stages of booting look ok but when the details list is
about done, the display went blank and that's the farthest it goes.
I can't reboot via cntl+alt+del or ssh into the machine. I was
able a few times to ping it so the network is started but
ssh is ignored. The only way to recover is to press the hard
reset button or the power button.

Because that disk had a few bad sectors as reported by smartd,
I needed to replace it anyway. So I put in a bigger disk and reinstalled
F9 preview, did the yum update but this time opted out of the
xorg updates since I suspected it was something video related.
I still got the black screen hang and could not get in via ssh.
The video card is a nvidia 8800 GT.

other specs:

F9 X86-64 preview,
Asus P5E motherboard
8GB DDR2 (yes, high end development host)
80 GB PATA disk
LITE-ON DVD
Q6600 Core2 cpu

to test if the hardware is ok, I tried booting Ubuntu 8.04 desktop x86-64
and installed it to the same disk via resizing the F9 partition and
installing U 8.04 to the free space. That seems to work ok.b

that worked ok.

[Seve]

Hello Mark:

I ran into the same issue.
I can boot into text mode, but that's it.

Seve

[cgrim]

After yesterday update I cannot use the newest version of kernel (2.6.25-8.fc9.x86_64), because it breaks boot in first steps with horrible error messages - I'll try it ones more to write them in bugzilla.
Using older kernel 2.6.25-8.fc9.x86_64 is possible, so for me it's the new version of kernel who causes problems.

[leigh123linux]

I have had no problems here !


[leigh@localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.25-10.fc9.x86_64
[leigh@localhost ~]$

[marko]

I was able to fix this graphical stage hang by backing out the 'fedora-release',
basically by having yum use rawhide again. I guess something wasn't fully
synced up before I started ignoring rawhide, anyway, the giveaway
was when I manually added rawhide back to yum using --enablerepo and saw lots
of packages to update. So I updated those and rebooted and got into
kde4 just fine.

[cgrim]

I have had no problems here !


[leigh@localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.25-10.fc9.x86_64
[leigh@localhost ~]$


Hi Leigh,
You compile the kernel for your self or how did you do that you have 2.6.25-10.fc9.x86_64??? ;)
In http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/x86_64/os/Packages/ is still 2.6.25-8.fc9.x86_64 and this version is buggy :(
Thanks

[leigh123linux]

Hi Leigh,
You compile the kernel for your self or how did you do that you have 2.6.25-10.fc9.x86_64??? ;)
In http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/x86_64/os/Packages/ is still 2.6.25-8.fc9.x86_64 and this version is buggy :(
Thanks


Hi,

I got the kernel from Koji


http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=47224

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8


Leigh

[majikthise]

I've got the same kernel as leigh123@linux, got mine via updates.

No problems encountered.

[majikthise]

Is this a problem with Asus boards?

[Seve]

Hello:
After playing around some, I was finally able to boot into level 5.

I had to remove the rhgb & quiet entries from the kernel boot line.

Seve

[majikthise]

Seve,
Have you had today's batch of updates including the Package Control Center-filesystem 2.22.1-3 update? I had problems.

[Seve]

Hello:
Yes, I got that update and a few others i.e. gnome-xxx etc.

I finally get the proper gui login screen [if I remove rhgb quiet] however, nautilus and my default gnome desktop are not working correctly ... :confused:

Seve

[majikthise]

I had to do use gpgignore to update with yum.

Everything seems good. So far.

[majikthise]

Sorry that didn't come out right ignore the word 'use' :rolleyes:

[leigh123linux]

Hello:
Yes, I got that update and a few others i.e. gnome-xxx etc.

I finally get the proper gui login screen [if I remove rhgb quiet] however, nautilus and my default gnome desktop are not working correctly ... :confused:

Seve


I have seen rhgb cause bootup errors before due to resolution issues .
Have you tried setting a resolution for rhgb ? , I believe you can do this with a kernel line option !

Set the vga= parameter to the VESA resolution that you want. The following vga numbers are all 256 colors which is plenty for the boot screen.

640x480 vga=769
800x600 vga=771
1024x768 vga=773
1280x1024 vga=775
1600x1200 vga=796


however, nautilus and my default gnome desktop are not working correctly

Have you tried disabling selinux ?

[Seve]

Hi Leigh:
Thanks for the suggestions.

I have disabled selinux and I did try the vesa option from the boot line.

This install was the original Alpha and has been working pretty good until the last couple of days where one or more of the updates have caused me some grief.

I also blew away my xorg.conf and let it re-detect everything but that went no where as well.

I may just download the latest preview release and re-install.

Seve

[leigh123linux]

Hi Leigh:
Thanks for the suggestions.

I have disabled selinux and I did try the vesa option from the boot line.

This install was the original Alpha and has been working pretty good until the last couple of days where one or more of the updates have caused me some grief.

I also blew away my xorg.conf and let it re-detect everything but that went no where as well.

I may just download the latest preview release and re-install.

Seve


Hi Seve,

I haven't tried any of the F9 media , both may Rawhide installs were upgrades from F8 .
I wanted to retain xorg 7.3 ;)

The only issue I have is Firefox :( , the F9 version seems flawed .
It hangs and it is generating some strange port scan messages in my router security logs !

I have swapped to the F10 version which seems to correct the issues :)


[root@localhost leigh]# rpm -q firefox xulrunner
firefox-3.0-0.59.cvs20080408.fc10.x86_64
xulrunner-1.9-0.59.cvs20080408.fc10.x86_64
[root@localhost leigh]#


Leigh

[majikthise]

I wanted to retain xorg 7.3 ;)Is there something we should know. :)

[Janl]

The proprietary graphics drivers do not work yet with the xorg from F9 yet.

[majikthise]

Slightly off-topic, but I haven't installed 3rd party drivers, just the ones that F9 supplied. Last night I tried to get compiz-fusion up and running. Clicked on the menu icon and I was left with a blank white screen.

[leigh123linux]

Slightly off-topic, but I haven't installed 3rd party drivers, just the ones that F9 supplied. Last night I tried to get compiz-fusion up and running. Clicked on the menu icon and I was left with a blank white screen.



The graphics driver needs to provide direct rendering for compiz to work .


glxinfo |grep direct


[leigh@localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.25-10.fc9.x86_64
[leigh@localhost ~]$ glxinfo |grep direct
direct rendering: Yes
[leigh@localhost ~]$

[majikthise]

I tried and got the following message:
[xxxxx@localhost ~]$ glxinfo | grep direct
Failed to initialize TTM buffer manager. Falling back to classic.
direct rendering: Yes

[leigh123linux]

I tried and got the following message:
[xxxxx@localhost ~]$ glxinfo | grep direct
Failed to initialize TTM buffer manager. Falling back to classic.
direct rendering: Yes



What driver are you using ?


cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf |grep Driver

[majikthise]

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Driver
Driver "kbd"
Driver "intel"

[majikthise]

kernel: 2.6.25-8.fc9.x86_64

[leigh123linux]

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Driver
Driver "kbd"
Driver "intel"




It looks like there is a problem with the intel driver in F9

http://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=53956&forum=12



You could try the latest build from Koji to see if it helps


su
rpm -Uvh http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/xorg-x11-drv-i810/2.2.1/23.fc9/x86_64/xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.2.1-23.fc9.x86_64.rpm


http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=47276

[majikthise]

Applied the koji x11 RPM, still getting TTM buffer manager error.

[diedo]

hello there me too i got this problem iand i want to annonce that all the videos i have and most of compiz are not working so i have tried your steps but the same with "majikthise" i got the buffer problem ?!! :(

[meowdin]

My TMF Buffer erorrs were solved by installing mesa-lib* from the update-testing repository...
Apparently there are still some errors on graphic driver (intel x3100 for me) but at least this solved the error msg and got my google earth back.

[bob]

Folks, if you missed it, this is an Archived Forum that was active when Fedora 9 was in Alpha and Beta, prior to Final release. You should post your questions in the regular Forum now. Feel free to reference this thread, but to prevent further postings, I'm closing it.