I just installed Centos 5 for my notebook (HP compaq nc4010) on a separate drive (than this one that has Centos 4.5). When I first booted after all the setup, X did not start. hmm. Rebooted, and X came up fine. I did a bunch of customizing and upgraded the kernel Rebooted, X did not start. Rebooted X started fine. I checked some things out then tried the Suspend feature. Not supprisingly, the system would not come back properly out of suspend. So I pulled the battery and rebooted. Now no X. I looked at the Xorg.0.log and did see one error (but did not write it down, grrr). I have tried to mount that drive via a USB connector, but automount is not handling it, and I don't know how to start working out mounting it manually. SO.... What happened? Oh, not nVidea (or whatever those threads on a video problem is). My video card is the: "ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 340M]" Is something still wrong becuase of the attempt to try Suspend? Where do I look and what do I change? Possiblely I messed up in customizing? But I did run system-config-display and set things as they are here in Centos 4.5, and rebooted. No change.... please help!
It seems to be a timing problem. And I do not know what else. Perhaps I need to do more tresting, but each test takes around 10 min. I have to boot, see it fail to go into X, try something reboot.... I have noticed that if I run pm-suspend and power back up, watch the system hang, pull the AC and the battery, and power up, I get into X. Strange? But in the last few rounds, while services were loading, I did not do an <alt-D> to see details and X did not crash. Seems to be a timing issue... ??? Now my display is set for the one I have in my NOC, not the one here in my office. I tried to change it and although I am told the update to xorg.conf was made, no changes were made. I guess next time I will log in as root instead of chancing su... ARGH!!!!! Robert Moskowitz wrote:> I just installed Centos 5 for my notebook (HP compaq nc4010) on a > separate drive (than this one that has Centos 4.5). > > When I first booted after all the setup, X did not start. hmm. > > Rebooted, and X came up fine. I did a bunch of customizing and > upgraded the kernel > > Rebooted, X did not start. > > Rebooted X started fine. I checked some things out then tried the > Suspend feature. Not supprisingly, the system would not come back > properly out of suspend. So I pulled the battery and rebooted. Now > no X. > > I looked at the Xorg.0.log and did see one error (but did not write it > down, grrr). > > I have tried to mount that drive via a USB connector, but automount is > not handling it, and I don't know how to start working out mounting it > manually. > > SO.... > > What happened? Oh, not nVidea (or whatever those threads on a video > problem is). My video card is the: > "ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 340M]" > > Is something still wrong becuase of the attempt to try Suspend? Where > do I look and what do I change? > > Possiblely I messed up in customizing? But I did run > system-config-display and set things as they are here in Centos 4.5, > and rebooted. No change.... > > please help! > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
Bart Schaefer wrote:> On 6/13/07, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: >> It seems to be a timing problem. And I do not know what else. > > This sounds similar to something I encountered after first installing > CentOS5.0 on my pavilion laptop. See thread "CentOS 5: GDM starts, > but console doesn't switch VTs" (which isn't really a thread, as no > one replied to me either). It rarely happens now that I've installed > all the updates, but does still happen occasionally.I will look for it. I am all current on updates other than for BIND and OpenOffice (that I want to grab 2.1 from their site, not the 2.0 update from the repo).> Have you tried pressing Alt-F7 after you get the text console prompt?Didn't do anything. When I run top, I don't see X. I am pretty sure it crashed and burned.> I'm also a tad puzzled by why you keep resorting to pulling out the > battery. Holding the power button down for 6-10 seconds doesn't get > you powered off so that on the next power-on it does a full restart? > I've never had to remove a laptop battery except when it needed > replacing because it wouldn't hold a charge.Not on my HP Compaq NC4010. No matter what I do with the settings, If I get wedged, the power button is just a pretty decoration.> In your earlier post you said: > >> > I have tried to mount that drive via a USB connector, but automount is >> > not handling it, and I don't know how to start working out mounting it >> > manually. > > Does that mean that some part of your CentOS install is on an external > USB drive? In my not-very-extensive experience with running CentOS on > laptops, suspend and especially hibernate does not work unless all the > essential components (/etc, /boot, and so on) are on the internal hard > drive. Perhaps that's just a RedHat shortcoming, or perhaps someone > else can explain workarounds. (May need a new thread to get anyone's > attention.)No. I did the Centos 5 on a new drive. This way I could make sure everything worked before messing with my production environment. I was careful to name all the LVM units something different from my 4.5 drive, but when I put the drive in the USB interface thing, other that the drive spinning up, I could not see anything to indicate a USB drive available. And I have done the kernel change to support multiple drives in a USB device.
Robert Moskowitz
2007-Jun-14 11:33 UTC
Solved: Re: Crazy - Re: [CentOS] Centos 5, X dies, I cry
Well sort of. Looks like I have to hold down <cntrl-Alt-F7> for a handful or so seconds and there is X. Guess the other times I tried this I was too impatient. Some sort of timing problem that I end up in the wrong display.... Robert Moskowitz wrote:> Bart Schaefer wrote: >> On 6/13/07, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: >>> It seems to be a timing problem. And I do not know what else. >> >> This sounds similar to something I encountered after first installing >> CentOS5.0 on my pavilion laptop. See thread "CentOS 5: GDM starts, >> but console doesn't switch VTs" (which isn't really a thread, as no >> one replied to me either). It rarely happens now that I've installed >> all the updates, but does still happen occasionally. > I will look for it. I am all current on updates other than for BIND > and OpenOffice (that I want to grab 2.1 from their site, not the 2.0 > update from the repo). >> Have you tried pressing Alt-F7 after you get the text console prompt? > Didn't do anything. When I run top, I don't see X. I am pretty sure > it crashed and burned. >> I'm also a tad puzzled by why you keep resorting to pulling out the >> battery. Holding the power button down for 6-10 seconds doesn't get >> you powered off so that on the next power-on it does a full restart? >> I've never had to remove a laptop battery except when it needed >> replacing because it wouldn't hold a charge. > Not on my HP Compaq NC4010. No matter what I do with the settings, If > I get wedged, the power button is just a pretty decoration. >> In your earlier post you said: >> >>> > I have tried to mount that drive via a USB connector, but >>> automount is >>> > not handling it, and I don't know how to start working out >>> mounting it >>> > manually. >> >> Does that mean that some part of your CentOS install is on an external >> USB drive? In my not-very-extensive experience with running CentOS on >> laptops, suspend and especially hibernate does not work unless all the >> essential components (/etc, /boot, and so on) are on the internal hard >> drive. Perhaps that's just a RedHat shortcoming, or perhaps someone >> else can explain workarounds. (May need a new thread to get anyone's >> attention.) > No. I did the Centos 5 on a new drive. This way I could make sure > everything worked before messing with my production environment. I > was careful to name all the LVM units something different from my 4.5 > drive, but when I put the drive in the USB interface thing, other that > the drive spinning up, I could not see anything to indicate a USB > drive available. And I have done the kernel change to support > multiple drives in a USB device. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >