Re: Startx crash after update

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On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 21:42 +0200, Fil-ShinyMetal wrote:
> Hi there,
> I will describe shortly my situation.
> 2 Z800 HP server, 6 GBytes of ram with 1 80 GB sata for the os and 2
> sata 1TB in software raid1.
> The graphic board is an Nvidia Quadro FX380
> I have other servers ( FC10 ) that mirrors locally the update and
> everything publicly available repositories.
>  
> The installation went smoothly with FC12_64.
> After the installation I arranged to boot in text mode, no graphic ( I
> do this for all my servers, so nothing strange ).
> I got the first troubles when I did the updates : doing a startx, both
> the Z800s rebooted, and unbelievably the discs were no more
> accessible : the only way to recover from that was to cycle the
> power !
> Quick investigation, and I discovered that with the installation
> kernel ( 2.31.5 ) X starts well.
> Googling around, I discovered the solutions proposed in the
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/Common but none of them worked for
> me.
> I've not yet tried the Nvidia driver for time reasons, maybe tomorrow
> I will do, but I suspect the problem is not there.
> As a last bit, I did the installation and update with 32bit FC12, with
> the same results.
>  
> Any idea about this?
> Regards
>  
> Filippo
>  
> Skype shinymetal-skype

I had to add the following to the boot kernel line in grub:

iommu=soft 


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