I recently upgraded a machine (my main workstation) from FC 23 to FC 24, and
there's a problem
The install was from the Workstation version and the checksum correctgly
matches (actually I always make 2 copies, just in case, which I hold on to
forever - they both check).
I did the install, and intitially (until I added other users) everything was
fine - no problems in logging in.
However, I have an imortant app which I support and it needs the entire root
screen and can't coexist with plasma shell, so the machine normally runs in
multi-user mode, and X sessions are accessed via /usr/bin/startx. (This has
been working since the days of Redhat 5 through FC1 and up to and including
FC23 - I never tried FC 24 - and has never given a bit of trouble.)
After I added a non-privileged user for myself the fun began. The biggest
issue was that a non-privileged user could nto run an X-server (not via startx
anyway). FWIW I can't run the Wayland server since I am using an NVIDIA GeForce
GTX 950 and wayland doensn't handle it yet. The problem occurs whether I use
the O/S nouveau drivers or install the proprieary (xO/S ?) Nvidia drivers.
Hardware details : CPU is Intel i7 with 6 cores (show up as 12 in Linux), MSI
X99A Xpower motherboard with 32 GB memory (4 8gb sticks), 7 drives totalling
~24 TB of local disk space.
ERROR MESSAGE:
There have been 2 (each is the one-line err msg from a failed session attempt)
- the current one is the latter, and both look as if they have been munged
slightly:
waiting for X server to shut down (II) Server terminated successfully (0).
Closing log file.c-common: line 46: XKB_IN_USE: unbound variablexinit:
connection to X server lost
waiting for X server to shut down (II) Server terminated successfully (0).
Closing log file.initrc-common: line 46: XKB_IN_USE: unbound variablexinit:
connection to X server lost
LOG: /var/log - I can furnish a copy, but I didn't see any obvious "gotcha's"
in it.
Now I am a former kernel hacker, was a contributor to XFree86, have been a
Linus (and Solaris and HP-UX) SA for over 20 years, and I have been building my
workstations and servers from off-the-shelf components since before the PC was
invented, so I am not a newbie and generally I can solve most problems, and
FWIW I don't think I've done anyting really stupid here. Finally, fWIW this
particular machine ran FC 23 with not problems whatsoever. Just to make sure
that something had no happened hardware wise, I switched the boot loader to
look back at the FC23 partition, and it still boots and runs correctly without
the Xorg problem.
I have gone to bugzilla and posted the bug, but so far it does not appear to
have been looked at, so no help there.
This has been going on now for about 2 weeks. I tried to solve the problem for
3 days then blew the installation away and redid it, this time installing the
server version.
Of course I had to add the X/desktop pieces and it took almost a day to get
everyting that I needed installed. The same thing happened, and I am now on
install # from the Workstaion spin. And yes, the same problem still happens
every time.
I'm beginning to suspect that something in my own environment causes the
problem, so I added a new, completely vanilla user ("dummy") and he seems to
get the same results.
Any help and/or suggestions would be appreciated, and please feel free to
contact me off list if that is easier for you.
Thanks,
william w. austin wwaus...@google.com
"life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."
_______________________________________________
users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org
To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
