[PlanetCCRMA] lenovo t61, fedora 8 and ccrmart kernel: X session fails

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Sat Jan 26 15:15:02 2008


On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 08:50 -0800, Judy Hawkins wrote:
> 
> Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 17:16 -0800, Judy Hawkins wrote:
> >> I just installed Fedora 8 on my lenovo t61, which worked fine; did yum
> >> install  planetccrma-core; now when I log into the Gnome session it dies
> >> with the following .xsession-errors:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> SESSION_MANAGER=local/unix:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/3114,unix/unix:/tmp/.ICE-uni
> >> x/3114
> >> ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0
> >> ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0
> >> Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file /home/judy/.m
> >> etacity/sessions/default1.ms: Failed to open file '/home/judy/.metacity
> >> /sessions/default1.ms': No such file or directory
> >> 11
> >> 
> >> ** (nm-applet:3211): WARNING **: nm_object_get_property: Error getting 
> >> 'WirelessEnabled' for /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager: The name org.fre
> >> edesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
> >> 
> >> 
> >> ** (nm-applet:3211): WARNING **: nm_object_get_property: Error getting 
> >> 'WirelessHardwareEnabled' for /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager: The name
> >>  org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
> >> error getting update info:  Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd
> >> .xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again
> >> Window manager warning: CurrentTime used to choose focus window; focus 
> >> window may not be correct.
> >> Window manager warning: Got a request to focus the no_focus_window with
> >>  a timestamp of 0.  This shouldn't happen!
> >> Failed to kill esd (pid 3180)
> >> 
> >> Any suggestions?  
> > 
> > Weird. Does this happen only when booting into the rt kernel? Or also
> > with the normal Fedora kernel?
> > 
> 
> It only happens when I've booted the rt kernel.   Booting the normal kernel
> I don't 
> see any problems at all.  I'm doing some updates, I'll see if anything
> changes.

Wow, that _is_ strange. I can't imagine how the kernel could be wrong is
such a way that the machine actually boots but you are not able to
login. Updates are probably not going to help but it is worth trying. 

There is also a 2.6.22.10 based kernel that could be different. 

See:
http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/planetccrma/2007-December/014181.html

-- Fernando