Bug 59474

Summary: fedora 18 X fatal server error no screens found after boot
Product: xorg Reporter: Philippe Dax <dax>
Component: Driver/nouveauAssignee: Nouveau Project <nouveau>
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: dax, radim.venglor
Version: 7.7 (2012.06)   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:
Attachments:
Description Flags
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
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/var/log/gdm/:0.log
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/var/log/gdm/:0-slave.log
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dmesg none

Description Philippe Dax 2013-01-16 16:25:46 UTC
Created attachment 73154 [details]
/var/log/Xorg.0.log

Description of problem:
I have installed the last release of Fedora F18
After booting, the graphic interface is not displayed and switched to textual interface (login:).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-server 1.13.1-4.fc18

How reproducible:
everytime after boot

Steps to Reproduce:
1. reboot
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
login: in text mode

Expected results:
login screen under gdm
Comment 1 Philippe Dax 2013-01-16 16:31:56 UTC
Created attachment 73155 [details]
/var/log/gdm/:0.log
Comment 2 Philippe Dax 2013-01-16 16:33:32 UTC
Created attachment 73157 [details]
/var/log/gdm/:0-slave.log
Comment 3 Trek 2013-01-16 18:12:11 UTC
> Xorg.0.log
> Fatal server error:
> [   212.065] xf86OpenConsole: VT_ACTIVATE failed: No such device or address

I think this is the error message and it should refer to a failed open of a virtual terminal (may be /dev/fb0 or /dev/tty*).

Can you manually switch to other virtual terminals?
Can you manually start X?

Is this issue related?

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1625857


Ciao!
Comment 4 Philippe Dax 2013-01-17 17:06:37 UTC
Created attachment 73191 [details]
dmesg
Comment 5 Philippe Dax 2013-01-17 17:16:24 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)

> Can you manually switch to other virtual terminals?

I don't know how to do that

> Can you manually start X?

Yes, startx

> Is this issue related?
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1625857

No

My GPU is

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G84 [Quadro FX 1700] (rev a1)
Comment 6 Philippe Dax 2013-01-18 09:25:00 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> > Xorg.0.log
> > Fatal server error:
> > [   212.065] xf86OpenConsole: VT_ACTIVATE failed: No such device or address
> 
> I think this is the error message and it should refer to a failed open of a
> virtual terminal (may be /dev/fb0 or /dev/tty*).
> 
> Can you manually switch to other virtual terminals?
> Can you manually start X?
> 
> Is this issue related?
> 
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1625857
> 
> 
> Ciao!

This message occures after installing 
yum install xorg-x11-drv-nouveau

The original message was :

[   801.991] Initializing built-in extension DRI2
[   801.991] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[   801.991] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
[   801.991] (II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[   801.991] 	compiled for 1.13.1, module version = 1.0.0
[   801.991] 	ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 7.0
[   801.991] (==) AIGLX enabled
[   801.991] Loading extension GLX
[   801.991] (==) Matched nouveau as autoconfigured driver 0
[   801.991] (==) Matched nv as autoconfigured driver 1
[   801.991] (==) Matched nouveau as autoconfigured driver 2
[   801.991] (==) Matched nv as autoconfigured driver 3
[   801.992] (==) Matched vesa as autoconfigured driver 4
[   801.992] (==) Matched modesetting as autoconfigured driver 5
[   801.992] (==) Matched fbdev as autoconfigured driver 6
[   801.992] (==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout
[   801.992] (II) LoadModule: "nouveau"
[   801.992] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nouveau
[   801.992] (II) UnloadModule: "nouveau"
[   801.992] (II) Unloading nouveau
[   801.992] (EE) Failed to load module "nouveau" (module does not exist, 0)
[   801.992] (II) LoadModule: "nv"
[   801.992] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nv
[   801.992] (II) UnloadModule: "nv"
[   801.992] (II) Unloading nv
[   801.992] (EE) Failed to load module "nv" (module does not exist, 0)
[   801.992] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
[   801.992] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module vesa
[   801.992] (II) UnloadModule: "vesa"
[   801.992] (II) Unloading vesa
[   801.992] (EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0)
[   801.992] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting"
[   801.992] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module modesetting
[   801.992] (II) UnloadModule: "modesetting"
[   801.992] (II) Unloading modesetting
[   801.992] (EE) Failed to load module "modesetting" (module does not exist, 0)
[   801.992] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
[   801.992] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module fbdev
[   801.992] (II) UnloadModule: "fbdev"
[   801.992] (II) Unloading fbdev
[   801.992] (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
[   801.992] (EE) No drivers available.
[   801.992] 
Fatal server error:
[   801.992] no screens found
[   801.993] (EE)
Comment 7 Philippe Dax 2013-01-18 17:07:45 UTC
I suspect a missing driver :

$ yum list |grep xorg-x11-drv
xorg-x11-drv-apm.x86_64                1.2.5-2.fc18                    fedora   
xorg-x11-drv-ast.x86_64                0.97.0-2.fc18                   fedora   
xorg-x11-drv-ati.x86_64                7.0.0-0.8.20121015gitbd9e2c064.fc18
xorg-x11-drv-catalyst.x86_64           12.11-0.3.beta11.fc18           rpmfusion-nonfree
xorg-x11-drv-catalyst-devel.i686       12.11-0.3.beta11.fc18           rpmfusion-nonfree
xorg-x11-drv-catalyst-devel.x86_64     12.11-0.3.beta11.fc18           rpmfusion-nonfree
xorg-x11-drv-catalyst-libs.i686        12.11-0.3.beta11.fc18           rpmfusion-nonfree
xorg-x11-drv-catalyst-libs.x86_64      12.11-0.3.beta11.fc18           rpmfusion-nonfree
xorg-x11-drv-cirrus.x86_64             1.5.1-3.fc18                    fedora   
xorg-x11-drv-dummy.x86_64              0.3.6-2.fc18                    fedora   
xorg-x11-drv-evdev.x86_64              2.7.3-2.fc18                    fedora   
xorg-x11-drv-evdev-devel.i686          2.7.3-2.fc18                    fedora   
xorg-x11-drv-evdev-devel.x86_64        2.7.3-2.fc18                    fedora   
xorg-x11-drv-fbdev.x86_64              0.4.3-3.fc18                    fedora   
xorg-x11-drv-glint.x86_64              1.2.8-2.fc18                    fedora   
xorg-x11-drv-i128.x86_64               1.3.6-2.fc18                    fedora   
xorg-x11-drv-i740.x86_64               1.3.4-2.fc18                    fedora   
xorg-x11-drv-intel.i686                2.20.17-1.fc18                  updates  
xorg-x11-drv-intel.x86_64              2.20.17-1.fc18                  updates  
xorg-x11-drv-intel-devel.i686          2.20.17-1.fc18                  updates  
xorg-x11-drv-intel-devel.x86_64        2.20.17-1.fc18                  updates  
xorg-x11-drv-ivtv.x86_64               1.2.0-0.1.fc18                  fedora   
xorg-x11-drv-keyboard.x86_64           1.6.2-3.fc18                    fedora   
xorg-x11-drv-mach64.x86_64             6.9.3-6.fc18                    fedora   
xorg-x11-drv-mga.x86_64                1.6.1-2.fc18                    fedora   
xorg-x11-drv-modesetting.x86_64        0.4.0-4.fc18                    fedora   
xorg-x11-drv-mouse.x86_64              1.8.1-3.fc18                    fedora   
xorg-x11-drv-mouse-devel.i686          1.8.1-3.fc18                    fedora   
xorg-x11-drv-mouse-devel.x86_64        1.8.1-3.fc18                    fedora   
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau.x86_64            1:1.0.3-1.fc18                  fedora   
xorg-x11-drv-nv.x86_64                 2.1.20-2.fc18                   fedora   
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64             1:304.64-3.fc18                 rpmfusion-nonfree
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx.x86_64       173.14.36-1.fc18                rpmfusion-nonfree
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx-devel.i686   173.14.36-1.fc18                rpmfusion-nonfree
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx-devel.x86_64 173.14.36-1.fc18                rpmfusion-nonfree
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx-libs.i686    173.14.36-1.fc18                rpmfusion-nonfree
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx-libs.x86_64  173.14.36-1.fc18                rpmfusion-nonfree
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-devel.i686         1:304.64-3.fc18                 rpmfusion-nonfree
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-devel.x86_64       1:304.64-3.fc18                 rpmfusion-nonfree
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686          1:304.64-3.fc18                 rpmfusion-nonfree
...
Comment 8 Trek 2013-01-20 22:34:47 UTC
Probably this is an installation problem and you should talk with the Fedora support first. The evidence is that you can manually start X from the terminal.

As suggestion may be that you have too many video drivers installed for the same device: nouveau, nv and nvidia.

Please to close this bug when the issue is resolved.

Ciao
Comment 9 raven 2013-02-12 20:48:24 UTC
I faced similar error like this one:
xf86OpenConsole: VT_ACTIVATE failed: No such device or address
when I tried use my NVidia after uprade from Fedora 16 -> 17.

And found resolution for me.

At first I would like mention that my notebook has Optimus and I had configured bumblebeed with bbswitch for NVidia (nVidia Corporation GF108 [Quadro 1000M])  usage.

As resolution for me works:
1. reinstall bumblebee and bbswitch.
2. then I set nouveau driver load conditions (as described for bbswitch)

modprobe bbswitch load_state=0 unload_state=1

3. Reboot


I hope this post can be helpfull.
Comment 10 Ilia Mirkin 2013-08-20 23:27:36 UTC
It really sounds like you're having fedora issues, not nouveau issues. You either don't have some component installed, or have overwritten something with something else... it's a little hard to tell :) Please file a bug with them if you still haven't gotten it to work. We have some instructions in the wiki for getting stuff set up, perhaps they'll help you: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/InstallNouveau/

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