f7 black screen on bootup - xwindows problem

[105547111]

Hey,

I have updated 4 servers from fc6 to f7 and this is the only one giving me hassles.

I updated it graphically with the DVD (so we know xwindows works).

I rebooted and get a black screen

I sshed in from another server, did a yum update, 70 replaced packages. Another reboot and its still black screen.

Can you give me some tips what to check. The etc/inittab files is set to 5 for X11 login.

The etc/X11/xorg.conf file is exactly as it was for fc6, and my hardware is compatible.

[root@four ~]# vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf
HorizSync 30.0 - 107.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "radeon"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection



From another machine as root user I tried startx

[root@four ~]# startx
xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.2896
xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority
xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority

X Window System Version 1.3.0
Release Date: 19 April 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3
Build Operating System: Fedora Core 7 Red Hat, Inc.
Current Operating System: Linux four.engineering.idb 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 #1 SMP Wed May 23 22:35:01 EDT 2007 i686
Build Date: 11 May 2007
Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.3.0.0-5.fc7
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Jun 3 23:11:01 2007
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"

(EE) No devices detected.

Fatal server error:
no screens found
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
[root@four ~]#


Can someone please help?


Thanks!

[tashirosgt]

Could the video card have gone bad? Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log to make sure "No devices detected" is the only error. Then check logs like /var/log/messages or do dmesg | less to see if the video card is mentioned. If it is seen on boot-up and not found by X, then I don't know what to say.

[105547111]

No the card is fine, its F7. It worked on FC6 and during the upgrade to F7 and thats it.

If I disable graphic mode it works fine as text.

I managed last one out of like 30 starts, xwindows came up on startup, even loged on and off several times.

Rebooted and that was it back to same problem.

Seems there are a bunch of problems with F7:

kernel problems
gnome sound problems
ntpd issues (I can no longer get 1PPS working).
eth0 can hang on bootup, you have to unplug and replug the ethernet cable

The graphics issue I got I have got a bugzilla open on it, and that is for my ati radeon, but there are also bug filed for the same thing with nvidia card.

Its only a spare server so I can still ssh in and yum update remotely, so it will be fixed sooner or later.

Still all in all I am happy with F7, as my main servers are okay (apart from one with the very annoying eth0 unplug/replug boot freezing issue!

Upgrading was painless and a happy experience. After my first server I didn't even bother backing up /home!