FC13 hangs on starting atd

[goude]

Hello

I did a fresh FC13 install on a computer and after trying to install the nvidia drivers the machine hangs on starting atd when it boots.

Initially, I tried to install the nvidia drivers with yum but it didn't work. The nvidia module was not loading and although I blakclisted the nouveua driver the machine was still picking it up. Anyway after spending a lot of time trying to find a solution online, I decided to download the drivers from nvidia and install it myself.

So I did that, run sh <nvidia-package>.run and the installation was completed without any complaints. Since then the machine hangs when I booted it up. Also I don't see any errors in var/log/messages or in /Xorg.0.log

Here is my grub.conf:

default=0
timeout=0
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686 ro root=UUID=a1a52009-8747-499f-bd3e-da54ddeff371 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=uk rhgb quiet rdblacklist=nouveau nomodeset
	initrd /initramfs-2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686.img

No errors in Xorg.0.log file but I get this in /var/log/messages

Nov  3 17:35:24 iocaste kernel: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Nov  3 17:35:24 iocaste kernel: nvidia 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
Nov  4 09:39:09 iocaste kernel: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Nov  4 09:39:09 iocaste kernel: nvidia 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
Nov  4 09:42:58 iocaste kernel: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Nov  4 09:42:58 iocaste kernel: nvidia 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
Nov  4 10:18:34 iocaste kernel: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Nov  4 10:18:34 iocaste kernel: nvidia 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
Nov  4 10:30:20 iocaste kernel: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Nov  4 10:30:20 iocaste kernel: nvidia 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16

I googled that and read that it's safe to ignore this error??

My xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from data in "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "gb"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Does anyone know what is going wrong? Any suggestions please?

Many thanks!

[goude]

I am reinstalling FC13 and start again.

[philferrar]

I've had a similar problem with my laptop - runs fine under XP and Ubuntu 7.04. Subsequent releases of Ubuntu through to 10.04 failed to load in over 50% of boots. Since installing 10.10 from scratch things have improved. I've also found that if I flick the escape key about 4 or 5 times at 3-4 second intervals during the start of the boot it has more chances of loading. I realise this is not a very scientific answer [no idea what happens internally to my Samsung V20 machine] but it does appear to help.