Bug 10393

Summary:	Black screen on boot
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Oliver Burger <oliver.bgr>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	Normal	CC:	mageia, oliver.bgr
Version:	3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	Output of lspcidrake -v Xorg.0.log when booting normally Xorg.0.log when booting failsafe

Description Oliver Burger 2013-06-02 12:20:41 CEST

On a Samsung netbook (Atom n550) I have only a black screen after installing Mga3.
The LiveDVD-KDE does work flawlessly, but the installed version does not show any graphics (neither plymouth nor x-server).
You can hear the KDE login sound so the system does seem to boot properly.

When booting into failsafe mode and then changing to the normal mode using
"systemctl default", the graphics start normally.

So I think that there must be some problems in the "normal mode" boot process.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Oliver Burger 2013-06-02 12:23:14 CEST

Created attachment 4090 [details]
Output of lspcidrake -v

If any other output is needed, please tell me.

Oliver Burger 2013-06-02 12:23:39 CEST

CC: (none) => mageia, oliver.bgr

Comment 2 Colin Guthrie 2013-06-13 01:18:05 CEST

Not really sure TBH.

It could be something to do with not initialising the display properly when the "quiet" command line is supplied? Perhaps try removing that from the kernel command line.

Comment 3 Oliver Burger 2013-06-13 21:21:25 CEST

I tried that. No change.

I thought it could be something in the order services are started.

Comment 4 Oliver Burger 2013-08-24 15:27:12 CEST

I found some differences in Xorg.0.log
When booting normally, Xorg.0.log ends with some errors, about not finding the screen.
When booting with the failsafe kernel parameter and then using "systemctl default", there are no such errors.

See attached files.

Comment 5 Oliver Burger 2013-08-24 15:28:47 CEST

Created attachment 4283 [details]
Xorg.0.log when booting normally

This is the Xorg.0.log as I see it after trying to boot normally

Comment 6 Oliver Burger 2013-08-24 15:30:24 CEST

Created attachment 4284 [details]
Xorg.0.log when booting failsafe

The Xorg.0.log file as seen, when booting with the failsafe kernel parameter and then starting the system using "systemctl default"

Comment 7 Oliver Burger 2013-08-24 16:01:54 CEST

Found something googling for the error message from the above Xorg.0.log:
When using "i915.modeset=1" it boots all right.

I have no boot splash (adding the splash kernel parameter breaks it again), but at least the system is booting into graphics mode.

Comment 8 Marja Van Waes 2015-03-31 16:03:44 CEST

Mageia 3 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status 4 months ago.
http://blog.mageia.org/en/2014/11/26/lets-say-goodbye-to-mageia-3/ 

Mageia 3 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Mageia
please feel free to click on "Version" change it against that version of Mageia
and reopen this bug.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

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Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD