Re: New Kernel Image

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On 2/4/06, Ernest <kong_an563@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  New Kernel image 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4
>  is causing problems with gdm.
>
>  After boot:
>  the kernel is running, but gdm has crashed at the point where a user login
> screen should appear.
>  All that appears is a blue background speckled with white dots. It might be
> that gdm has not crashed, but the boot process has left something in an
> incompatible state.
>
>  It is possible to login to this machine, from another desktop, using ssh.
> Once logged onto the fedora system and issuing the command "gdm-restart",
> the gdm user login screen appears on the fedora system console.
>
>  What has changed between 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4
>  and 2.6.14-1.1656.FC4?
>
>  Where do I start?
>  What information is needed?
>
>  System is an older Gateway PIII, 384MB RAM, ATI Radeon graphics card in the
> AGP slot.
>  X.org detects and configures this video card properly. The earlier kernel
> worked fine, until the system was booted with  kernel 2.6.15-1. Now kernel
> 2.6.14-1 exhibits the same problem.
>

Your problem was answered in this thread "Issues with kernel 2.6.15
and other updates this morning". Go to
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-February/msg00179.html
for more information, then get this file
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/4/module-init-tools-3.2-0.pre9.0.FC4.1.i386.rpm
.and update modules-init-tools.


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