On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 17:11:07 -0700
Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2014-04-16 at 17:00 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-04-16 at 17:41 -0600, Pete Travis wrote:
> > On Apr 16, 2014 9:12 AM, "Clyde E. Kunkel"
> > <clydekunkel7734(a)verizon.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > With all of the kernels in the rawhide 3.15 series so far the
> > > gnome desktop fails to load. Kernels in the 3.14 series are
> > > fine.
> > >
> > > All I can see is that the X server seems to start (ps -A | grep
> > > Xorg returns a PID), but the Xorg.0.log is empty. No obvious
> > > failures in journalctl -xb. I see gdm is started, but at this
> > > point lots of disk activity but then nothing. c-a-f2 gets me
> > > to tty and I can login. Top looks normal for a non-gnome
> > > session. Killing X sometimes brings up the GDM login, but
> > > after entering password, just a blank screen and the Xorg log
> > > file is still empty.
> > >
> > > Have tried every 3.15 kernel so far without luck.
> > >
> > > I don't see any obvious bz, and would be happy to enter one,
> > > but don't know what information should be included.
> > >
> > > Any help appreciated.
> > >
> > > TIA
> > > --
> > >
> >
> > I haven't had gdm display anything for the last several kernel
> > updates , but I'm not convinced the kernel is at fault as older
> > ones stopped gdm from working too.
> >
> > GDM *thinks* it is working - `journalctl -u gdm` is where you can
> > find the Xorg log output these days - but the vterm is black.
> > Lightdm and sddm display, though poorly, and neither produce a
> > working gnome session.
> >
> > No one thing I've poked at so far appeared to be the cause, so I
> > haven't complained. Good to know it is not just me ;)
>
> Have you folks tried booting with enforcing=0 , just as a shot in
> the dark?
Hum, actually - it looks like on my tablet, dropping 'rhgb quiet' from
the cmdline helps (no 'enforcing=0' needed). Does that apply to
others?
I don't have RHGB or quiet in the cmdline and selinux is disabled.