[SOLVED] System Encrypt GUI not displaying

[CeTis]

This isn't really important but I do like my gnome GUI on this part.

I installed video drivers etc, but immediately after the file system login doesn't have the gnome GUI on it anymore...anyone know how to fix it?

[CeTis]

still no response on this...anyone know?

[Gareth Jones]

The problem is that you haven't told us anything that we can really use to diagnose your problem.

Let's try and clear this up:
1) Your file-system is encrypted? Which – root, home, everything?
2) You don't have a working graphical interface. Does the graphical login prompt appear, or is it just the GNOME desktop that fails after logging in? Do you get fall-back mode? Is there an error message? Is there anything relevant in /var/log/messages or ~/.xsession-errors?
3) An otherwise-identical previous install without encryption worked okay?
4) What video hardware and what video driver have you installed?

[CeTis]

Originally Posted by Gareth Jones

The problem is that you haven't told us anything that we can really use to diagnose your problem.

Let's try and clear this up:
1) Your file-system is encrypted? Which – root, home, everything?
2) You don't have a working graphical interface. Does the graphical login prompt appear, or is it just the GNOME desktop that fails after logging in? Do you get fall-back mode? Is there an error message? Is there anything relevant in /var/log/messages or ~/.xsession-errors?
3) An otherwise-identical previous install without encryption worked okay?
4) What video hardware and what video driver have you installed?

Well I didn't over complicate this with details because I assumed this would be fairly simple. I'll answer in order:

1) All file systems are encrypted.
2) There isn't a "failure" as far as I know, and yes I checked both logs and didn't find anything of significance. Originally without the ATI drivers I had installed there was a file system encrypt GUI displaying. Now after the install its just the basic version which is a PE text input section.

3) This isn't entirely relevant as any basic install without encrypt works. The problem is it stops displaying the gui POST display driver install.

4) 2 ATI 5870s, with F14 working install straight from the site. Both cards recognized and functioning properly with catalyst drivers.

[Gareth Jones]

So the file-system password entry that appears at the beginning of the boot process is text-only, no graphics? Does the user-login screen appear as text or graphics later on?

[CeTis]

Originally Posted by Gareth Jones

So the file-system password entry that appears at the beginning of the boot process is text-only, no graphics? Does the user-login screen appear as text or graphics later on?

user login has gnome gui applied to it...just the file system encrypt doesn't

[Gareth Jones]

Okay, what was confusing was the reference to GNOME in relation to the file-system password.

Just so you know, GNOME refers to the default desktop that appears after you log in to Fedora, although the default log-in screen is designed as part of the GNOME project too. GNOME and the graphical log-in screen run on top of the core windowing system, called X. The file-system password entry is before even X is loaded, so references to GNOME were complicating the question!

So, what we have is that X (and thus everything that uses it) knows about the Catalyst video driver, but whatever prompts for the file-system password doesn't.

I don't have any experience with Catalyst/ATI myself, but there was a similar issue with the nVidia binary drivers. Try installing and running "bootconf-gui", and see if you can configure the pre-X video mode there.

[CeTis]

Originally Posted by Gareth Jones

Okay, what was confusing was the reference to GNOME in relation to the file-system password.

Just so you know, GNOME refers to the default desktop that appears after you log in to Fedora, although the default log-in screen is designed as part of the GNOME project too. GNOME and the graphical log-in screen run on top of the core windowing system, called X. The file-system password entry is before even X is loaded, so references to GNOME were complicating the question!

So, what we have is that X (and thus everything that uses it) knows about the Catalyst video driver, but whatever prompts for the file-system password doesn't.

I don't have any experience with Catalyst/ATI myself, but there was a similar issue with the nVidia binary drivers. Try installing and running "bootconf-gui", and see if you can configure the pre-X video mode there.

Ah I didn't realize GNOME wasn't running over X for the file system encrypt environment. Thanks for the help, that did the trick it is working now!