Can't get to GUI

[Jongi]

When I boot, my screen starts to flicker a number of times and then eventually hangs at the last thing it executed before it started to load the GUI (or so I assume).

I assume this because /var/log/messages shows

2008-11-17T23:27:02.859026+02:00 jongi-mythtv avahi-daemon[2318]: Service "jongi-mythtv" (/services/ssh.service) successfully established.
2008-11-17T23:27:03.793705+02:00 jongi-mythtv smartd[2551]: smartd version 5.38 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
2008-11-17T23:27:03.805868+02:00 jongi-mythtv smartd[2551]: Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/#012
2008-11-17T23:27:03.806573+02:00 jongi-mythtv smartd[2551]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf
2008-11-17T23:27:03.807396+02:00 jongi-mythtv smartd[2551]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf parsed but has no entries (like /dev/hda)
2008-11-17T23:27:03.808095+02:00 jongi-mythtv smartd[2551]: Monitoring 0 ATA and 0 SCSI devices
2008-11-17T23:27:03.810178+02:00 jongi-mythtv smartd[2553]: smartd has fork()ed into background mode. New PID=2553.
2008-11-17T23:27:05.641902+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2556]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.860607 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:05.800818+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2556]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.158776 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:05.943842+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2556]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.139702 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:06.086314+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2556]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.140920 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:06.227993+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2556]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.140092 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:06.375994+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2556]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.138657 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:06.376294+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2556]: WARNING: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: maximum number of X display failures reached: check X server log for errors
2008-11-17T23:27:06.376552+02:00 jongi-mythtv init: prefdm main process (2556) terminated with status 1
2008-11-17T23:27:06.376833+02:00 jongi-mythtv init: prefdm main process ended, respawning
2008-11-17T23:27:06.846965+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2705]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.152175 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:06.993955+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2705]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.143700 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:07.133880+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2705]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.138337 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:07.284304+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2705]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.148893 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:07.425877+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2705]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.140257 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:07.572822+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2705]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.137017 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:07.573125+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2705]: WARNING: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: maximum number of X display failures reached: check X server log for errors
2008-11-17T23:27:07.573384+02:00 jongi-mythtv init: prefdm main process (2705) terminated with status 1
2008-11-17T23:27:07.573631+02:00 jongi-mythtv init: prefdm main process ended, respawning
2008-11-17T23:27:08.018152+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2812]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.134248 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:08.158354+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2812]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.136853 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:08.298671+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2812]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.138770 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:08.436476+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2812]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.136178 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:08.574899+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2812]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.136806 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:08.722832+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2812]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.138777 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:08.723128+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2812]: WARNING: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: maximum number of X display failures reached: check X server log for errors

<loops a couple of more times>

2008-11-17T23:27:17.746685+02:00 jongi-mythtv init: prefdm main process (3557) terminated with status 1
2008-11-17T23:27:17.746769+02:00 jongi-mythtv init: prefdm main process ended, respawning
2008-11-17T23:27:17.746823+02:00 jongi-mythtv init: prefdm respawning too fast, stopped

Now I setup this computer up a long time ago so I may be wrong, but I am pretty sure I had set this computer up to load kdm.

btw this is an upgrade from f8 to f10.

[leigh123linux]

When I boot, my screen starts to flicker a number of times and then eventually hangs at the last thing it executed before it started to load the GUI (or so I assume).

I assume this because /var/log/messages shows

2008-11-17T23:27:02.859026+02:00 jongi-mythtv avahi-daemon[2318]: Service "jongi-mythtv" (/services/ssh.service) successfully established.
2008-11-17T23:27:03.793705+02:00 jongi-mythtv smartd[2551]: smartd version 5.38 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
2008-11-17T23:27:03.805868+02:00 jongi-mythtv smartd[2551]: Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/#012
2008-11-17T23:27:03.806573+02:00 jongi-mythtv smartd[2551]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf
2008-11-17T23:27:03.807396+02:00 jongi-mythtv smartd[2551]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf parsed but has no entries (like /dev/hda)
2008-11-17T23:27:03.808095+02:00 jongi-mythtv smartd[2551]: Monitoring 0 ATA and 0 SCSI devices
2008-11-17T23:27:03.810178+02:00 jongi-mythtv smartd[2553]: smartd has fork()ed into background mode. New PID=2553.
2008-11-17T23:27:05.641902+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2556]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.860607 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:05.800818+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2556]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.158776 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:05.943842+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2556]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.139702 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:06.086314+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2556]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.140920 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:06.227993+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2556]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.140092 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:06.375994+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2556]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.138657 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:06.376294+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2556]: WARNING: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: maximum number of X display failures reached: check X server log for errors
2008-11-17T23:27:06.376552+02:00 jongi-mythtv init: prefdm main process (2556) terminated with status 1
2008-11-17T23:27:06.376833+02:00 jongi-mythtv init: prefdm main process ended, respawning
2008-11-17T23:27:06.846965+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2705]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.152175 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:06.993955+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2705]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.143700 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:07.133880+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2705]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.138337 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:07.284304+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2705]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.148893 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:07.425877+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2705]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.140257 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:07.572822+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2705]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.137017 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:07.573125+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2705]: WARNING: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: maximum number of X display failures reached: check X server log for errors
2008-11-17T23:27:07.573384+02:00 jongi-mythtv init: prefdm main process (2705) terminated with status 1
2008-11-17T23:27:07.573631+02:00 jongi-mythtv init: prefdm main process ended, respawning
2008-11-17T23:27:08.018152+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2812]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.134248 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:08.158354+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2812]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.136853 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:08.298671+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2812]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.138770 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:08.436476+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2812]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.136178 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:08.574899+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2812]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.136806 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:08.722832+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2812]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.138777 seconds
2008-11-17T23:27:08.723128+02:00 jongi-mythtv gdm-binary[2812]: WARNING: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: maximum number of X display failures reached: check X server log for errors

<loops a couple of more times>

2008-11-17T23:27:17.746685+02:00 jongi-mythtv init: prefdm main process (3557) terminated with status 1
2008-11-17T23:27:17.746769+02:00 jongi-mythtv init: prefdm main process ended, respawning
2008-11-17T23:27:17.746823+02:00 jongi-mythtv init: prefdm respawning too fast, stopped

Now I setup this computer up a long time ago so I may be wrong, but I am pretty sure I had set this computer up to load kdm.

btw this is an upgrade from f8 to f10.

Post the X server log

[Jongi]

This may just be the problem

(II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
(WW) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 GPU installed in this system is
(WW) NVIDIA(0):     supported through the NVIDIA 173.14.xx Legacy drivers.
(WW) NVIDIA(0):     Please visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for
(WW) NVIDIA(0):     more information.  The 177.82 NVIDIA driver will ignore
(WW) NVIDIA(0):     this GPU.  Continuing probe...
(EE) No devices detected.

I've disabled the rpmfusion repos. which one will hold the nvidia driver?

[leigh123linux]

This may just be the problem

(II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
(WW) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 GPU installed in this system is
(WW) NVIDIA(0):     supported through the NVIDIA 173.14.xx Legacy drivers.
(WW) NVIDIA(0):     Please visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for
(WW) NVIDIA(0):     more information.  The 177.82 NVIDIA driver will ignore
(WW) NVIDIA(0):     this GPU.  Continuing probe...
(EE) No devices detected.

I've disabled the rpmfusion repos. which one will hold the nvidia driver?

It's rpmfusion-nonfree , why don't you install the F9 akmod-nvidia (173.14.15) packages as they should work fine with F10

[Jongi]

Alright so I enabled rpmfusion.

Then I did yum install akmod-nvidia-173xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx-libs.

That did the trick.

EDIT: leigh i was getting the problems having tried to use akmod. I find it to be the best. no need to worry about finding a kmdl (atrpms) or kmod (livna/rpmfusion) after a kernel update is heaven.