Felix Miata <mrmazda(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
Neither X server nor Intel driver are static. They keep
evolving, and bugs
creep in. With fewer and fewer i686 alpha and beta testers
reporting
problems, and fewer developers to both care about and able
to
fix them,
getting bugs found and fixed takes longer, and longer. It's
why i686
trouble is not going to block F24 release, and F24 won't be
advertised as
an available arch when F24 is released.
Did you look at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F24_bugs before
choosing to replace your functioning installation with a
pre-release? The
very first bug there should have given you cause to
investigate before
disposing of your full functionality. We've been having
trouble with 32
bit Intel for several months.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1302071
was filed
more than 4 months ago, and is not! marked FIXED. This
mailing
list has
warned of various 32 bit troubles several times since then.
I
have several
F24 installations on Intel i686, probably all of which have
been
non-functional with some or all kernels since F23 was
released. The
machine I tested with before my bug 1338076 comment just
hours
ago works
fine with its prior 4.5 kernel, but not with 4.5.4-300. My
other machines
have been similarly hit and miss.
If you want a working system back soon, I suggest you
consider either
restoring your backup of F23 if you have one, reinstalling
F23
if you
don't, or, now that i686 is being squeezed out of Fedora,
consider a
different (Plasma 5, or lighter weight) distro with less
evolutionary
activity.
FWIW, I have openSUSE Tumbleweed, in which current kernel
is 4.5.4,
installed on all the machines on which I have F23, F24 and
F25
installed.
I don't remember (but don't trust my memory) any of them
having similar
trouble with post-4.3 kernels, though on them, I'm not
using Plasma 5,
only KDE3, or TDE <also available for Fedora at
https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/FedoraInstall>. I've been
finding Plasma 5
borderline usable on (single core) i686 hardware, and older
KDEs *far*
more responsive.
I have high hopes :-) I am sure this will get fixed. I don't
think it's such a big deal. I don't understand much of the
output, but it seems like there's a clue with the handoff
from Plymouth to mutter, when starting GDM. I might be able
to resolve it immediately by switching to SDDM, but I haven't
tried that.
In any case, the bug has been marked as a duplicate and it
seems that the problem is much bigger, affecting x86_64, too!
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1335173