F17 Fails to install

[YellowDog]

I have an ASUS P8Z68-V Motherboard with a NVIDIA GeForce GTXvideo card.

When I boot F17 there is a message that rpcbind is starting, then lots of drive activity and then nothing

I tried switching to a different virtual console but nothing happens.

Any ideas?

[secipolla]

Ain't there some fail-safe video option in the menu or also, have you tried booting directly to the installer (in case there's this option too).

I don't have any issue with the live CD (tried the Xfce spin) because I have an old video card but I installed F17 from the minimal ISO and then I could install the NVIDIA driver directly which prevents some hurdles as nouveau isn't even installed.

[dumindu]

I also facing the same problem, have Nvidia 8 series graphic card. Live cd Start normally, take lot of time to show logo, sometimes even it not showing the logo. lot of processes running background but it hang on boot, before showing the fedora logo. I'm trying to install a fresh installation to my PC, thanks

[Jabez]

Same problem here and hope someone answers soon. I have a Dell xps 15z with 2gb optimus nvidia graphics card, 256 gb ssd, i7, 8g ram laptop. Attempted to install fedora 17 x86_64 from DVD

[kdsnodgrass]

Originally Posted by YellowDog

I have an ASUS P8Z68-V Motherboard with a NVIDIA GeForce GTXvideo card.

When I boot F17 there is a message that rpcbind is starting, then lots of drive activity and then nothing

I tried switching to a different virtual console but nothing happens.

Any ideas?

I have a similar problem here. Did a LiveCD clean install, everything went fine. Rebooted to run the Firstboot stuff and it stopped in the same place, rpcbind. I WAS able to switch to a different TTY, logged in as root and did some looking about. In /var/log/messages:

nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Detected an NV10 generation card (0x01f000a5)
...
nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Unknown memclock table version 0.
nouveau 0000:02:00.0: 0 available performance level(s)

I have a GeForce 440MX, NV18 chip

Xorg never tries to load nouveau or nv, but dies trying vesa. From /var/log/Xorg.0.log:

[ 21.022] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
[ 21.022] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so
[ 21.022] (II) Module vesa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 21.022] compiled for 1.11.99.901, module version = 2.3.0
[ 21.022] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[ 21.022] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 12.0
[ 21.022] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
[ 21.022] (--) using VT number 2

[ 21.025] vesa: Ignoring device with a bound kernel driver
[ 21.025] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
[ 21.025] (II) UnloadModule: "vesa"
[ 21.025] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
[ 21.025]
Fatal server error:
[ 21.025] no screens found


I asked on my local LUG maillist and got a reply that there may be a bug in Xorg/Xorg nouveau/kernel nouveau-kmod, he wasn't sure (doubt he runs something ~10 years old like I do, so he didn't pay much attention).

I've searched around and found nothing useful so far. Going to try booting LiveCD and checking the live config, since it worked quite well and actually looked better than previous versions. Something different is happening between the LiveCD and installed setups, but don't know what...

[marko]

Originally Posted by kdsnodgrass

Rebooted to run the Firstboot stuff and it stopped in the same place, rpcbind.

That's really strange since I'd think rpcbind would have nothing to do with the video card. Did you try turning off networking so you can temporarily disable rpcbind and reboot without it and see if it gets past rpcbind?

[kdsnodgrass]

FIXED!! At least for me...

Originally Posted by marko

That's really strange since I'd think rpcbind would have nothing to do with the video card. Did you try turning off networking so you can temporarily disable rpcbind and reboot without it and see if it gets past rpcbind?

Actually that had nothing to do with the problem. The boot process is NOT linear anymore, those messages were after the small problem. When I boot runlevel 3, AFTER the login prompt, those messages and others show up...

Anyhow, the fix!! I mucked about in log files, compared lines in /var/log/messages from the LiveCD and the install boot, etc, even compared to Ubuntu 12.04LTS, no joy. So I checked /etc/X11/ and there was an xorg.conf that looked like this:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "vesa"
EndSection

I commented out Driver "vesa", added a line Driver "nouveau", ran startx and all worked. Changed runlevel back to 5, reboot, everything is cool. So the fix is to change /etc/X11/xorg.conf from the above to:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
# Driver "vesa"
Driver "nouveau"
EndSection

Or without the commented vesa line.

At least for me...

This really should have been fixed before release....