John Brewer wrote:
> I have a GA-MA78GM-S2H ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 3200 Graphics, booting
> the snv_b110 dvd or when using Jumpstart the Xserver X.Org X Server 1.5.3
> Release Date: 5 November 2008 starts with a the mouse cursor dies not move
> and there is no window manager just a gray background, this has been broken
> since snv_b106 , used to work on snv_b105 using the older Xserver.
This is a very well-known bug that affects all GUI installs of SXCE builds 107
and later on all x86 machines, regardless of graphics card:
6797940 Can't do gui installs on x86 systems with Nevada 107 & later
Xorg is not actually hanging - it was killed by ld.so.1 when it called a
function in the lazyloaded libdbus library, but ld.so.1 could not find it to
load.
Xorg 1.5.3, as found in build 107 or later, depends on libdbus, but the process
of building the miniroot used in the SXCE install images removes libdbus from
the main miniroot and puts it in the "gnome" cpio file, which was only unpacked
by the now-removed SXDE installer, so Xorg can't find the library.
There is no plan at this time to fix this bug in the SXCE miniroot generation,
since the SXCE install methods are in the process of being obsoleted as we move
to the OpenSolaris install methods. You simply need to choose a non-GUI
install method for SXCE on x86 from now on.
(In build 111 and later, Xorg should not stop at the grey screen, but instead
catch the library failure and reset back to the text console, so it should be
clearer that it can't run and isn't just hanging.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
