Hi folks!
We have a somewhat-worrying proposed blocker for F22:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218787
it appears that after a successful installation of Workstation on the affected system, GDM-on-Wayland fails to start correctly but also does not fall through (as it should) to GDM-on-X, leaving the user with a black screen and no obvious way to proceed. This is obviously a bad bug, but so far it has only been observed on one test system (a Macbook Pro 8,2) by one tester. A few other testers have tried to reproduce on other hybrid graphics systems, but have not been able to.
It would be very helpful to get some more data here. If anyone has a hybrid graphics laptop and can spare some space (or perhaps attach an external drive) for a test F22 install, can you please try installing F22 Workstation TC3 and creating a user:
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/22_TC3/Workstation/x86_64/iso/Fed... Live-Workstation-x86_64-22-TC3.iso
then boot the installed system, and see if GDM appears correctly? Thanks.
Note there is a different bug which causes GDM-on-Wayland to flicker on some hardware:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218688
that's something different, and is a bit further along in the diagnosis/fix process, so we probably don't need further reports of that one (though once a fix arrives, it'd be good to have folks test it).
If you find you seem to be affected by the bug, please add your details to the report. If you test and find you're *not* affected by the bug - you see GDM properly - please reply to one of the mailing lists, so we can get some idea of the proportions of affected vs. non-affected testers. Thanks a lot for your help, folks!
I have an Asus laptop that suffers from the flicker bug - in fact, I filed the original that 1218688 duplicates. Feel free to email me directly or send me a tweet (@znmeb) when there's something to test.
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Adam Williamson adamwill@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Hi folks!
We have a somewhat-worrying proposed blocker for F22:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218787
it appears that after a successful installation of Workstation on the affected system, GDM-on-Wayland fails to start correctly but also does not fall through (as it should) to GDM-on-X, leaving the user with a black screen and no obvious way to proceed. This is obviously a bad bug, but so far it has only been observed on one test system (a Macbook Pro 8,2) by one tester. A few other testers have tried to reproduce on other hybrid graphics systems, but have not been able to.
It would be very helpful to get some more data here. If anyone has a hybrid graphics laptop and can spare some space (or perhaps attach an external drive) for a test F22 install, can you please try installing F22 Workstation TC3 and creating a user:
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/22_TC3/Workstation/x86_64/iso/Fed... Live-Workstation-x86_64-22-TC3.iso
then boot the installed system, and see if GDM appears correctly? Thanks.
Note there is a different bug which causes GDM-on-Wayland to flicker on some hardware:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218688
that's something different, and is a bit further along in the diagnosis/fix process, so we probably don't need further reports of that one (though once a fix arrives, it'd be good to have folks test it).
If you find you seem to be affected by the bug, please add your details to the report. If you test and find you're *not* affected by the bug - you see GDM properly - please reply to one of the mailing lists, so we can get some idea of the proportions of affected vs. non-affected testers. Thanks a lot for your help, folks! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net
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I can install on Macbook Pro with hybrid graphics. I can install it tomorrow morning but last time I tried installation never starts and I just saw a black screen.
2015-05-14 17:30 GMT-03:00 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky znmeb@znmeb.net:
I have an Asus laptop that suffers from the flicker bug - in fact, I filed the original that 1218688 duplicates. Feel free to email me directly or send me a tweet (@znmeb) when there's something to test.
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Adam Williamson adamwill@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Hi folks!
We have a somewhat-worrying proposed blocker for F22:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218787
it appears that after a successful installation of Workstation on the affected system, GDM-on-Wayland fails to start correctly but also does not fall through (as it should) to GDM-on-X, leaving the user with a black screen and no obvious way to proceed. This is obviously a bad bug, but so far it has only been observed on one test system (a Macbook Pro 8,2) by one tester. A few other testers have tried to reproduce on other hybrid graphics systems, but have not been able to.
It would be very helpful to get some more data here. If anyone has a hybrid graphics laptop and can spare some space (or perhaps attach an external drive) for a test F22 install, can you please try installing F22 Workstation TC3 and creating a user:
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/22_TC3/Workstation/x86_64/iso/Fed...
Live-Workstation-x86_64-22-TC3.iso
then boot the installed system, and see if GDM appears correctly? Thanks.
Note there is a different bug which causes GDM-on-Wayland to flicker on some hardware:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218688
that's something different, and is a bit further along in the diagnosis/fix process, so we probably don't need further reports of that one (though once a fix arrives, it'd be good to have folks test it).
If you find you seem to be affected by the bug, please add your details to the report. If you test and find you're *not* affected by the bug - you see GDM properly - please reply to one of the mailing lists, so we can get some idea of the proportions of affected vs. non-affected testers. Thanks a lot for your help, folks! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net
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