[Sugar-devel] Soas blueberry - x.org problems?

[Sean DALY]

Cross-posting to SoaS list


On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi list!
>
> "made" a SoaS v2 sticks, but it has problems during X.org startup.
>
>  - it boots
>  - The plymouth stage completes just fine (circles around XO icon...)
>  - You can see the pointer appear, with the "processing" swirl
> swirling, but it disappears after a second or two. It reappears after
> a second, diappears... Looks like x.org is having problems during
> startup, and retrying endlessly.
>
> I cannot get to a VT long enough to diagnose or even login, because X
> is switching VTs all the time. Is there a way to tell x.org that it's
> enough?
>
> This is, btw, on a vanilla laptop with i965 video chipset where Fedora
> 11 has no problems at all with x.org. Tested on a thinkpad and seen
> the exact same behaviour. Maybe this is a known issue with SoaS v2?
>
> To make it, I used livecd-tools directly, like this:
>
> livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr --noverify --overlay-size-mb
> 300 --home-size-mb 500 --unencrypted-home ~/soas-2-blueberry.iso
> /dev/sdd1
>
> cheers,
>
>
> m
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