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.
