Hi Richard,

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After booting an image such as

Fedora-Workstation-armhfp-28-20180324.n.0-sda.raw.xz

on a Raspberry Pi model 3, the First Boot process completes, but no graphical login screen appears. The system becomes unresponsive after a graphical pointer arrow is displayed (on top of whatever text was left on the screen from the boot process.)

This failure remains even when the installed image is updated to include the latest software from updates-testing as of March 25.

This is specific to the GNOME image. Graphical login works for other images, specifically KDE and LXDE.

Question 1: Can anyone report success with F28 Raspberry Pi 3 GNOME graphical login? (Perhaps different display hardware makes a difference.)

Could you try the F28 Beta RC1.1 image: https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/28/Fedora-28-20180326.0/compose/W...

If that doesnt work, please open a bug and let us know so others can add more details.

Question 2: Does this problem aflict other armhfp systems, or is this unique to Raspberry Pi hardware?

It works in qemu but I have yet to test on hardware.

Thanks, Paul

This problem is new in F28. In my experience, up-to-date F27 GNOME systems using Raspberry Pi 3 hardware have no trouble with graphical login. _______________________________________________ arm mailing list -- arm@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to arm-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 5:41 PM, Richard Ryniker ryniker@alum.mit.edu wrote:

After booting an image such as

Fedora-Workstation-armhfp-28-20180324.n.0-sda.raw.xz

on a Raspberry Pi model 3, the First Boot process completes, but no graphical login screen appears. The system becomes unresponsive after a graphical pointer arrow is displayed (on top of whatever text was left on the screen from the boot process.)

This failure remains even when the installed image is updated to include the latest software from updates-testing as of March 25.

This is specific to the GNOME image. Graphical login works for other images, specifically KDE and LXDE.

Question 1: Can anyone report success with F28 Raspberry Pi 3 GNOME graphical login? (Perhaps different display hardware makes a difference.)

Question 2: Does this problem aflict other armhfp systems, or is this unique to Raspberry Pi hardware?

This problem is new in F28. In my experience, up-to-date F27 GNOME systems using Raspberry Pi 3 hardware have no trouble with graphical login.

It's a known problem in Fedora 28 Workstation in general, it's not limited to ARM let alone the Raspberry Pi. There's a thread on the desktop@ list where it's being discussed. There seems to have been a number of things that have regressed in terms of both memory and cpu usage.

Completely unrelated to the regressions in F-28 there's already a planned hackfest in May to improve performance of gnome on constrained devices so I would expect this to improve greatly in the F-29 cycle with luck.

Peter