Bug 17698

Summary:	LiveDVD PLASMA5 iso fails to launch X at boot after configuring nvidia
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Len Lawrence <tarazed25>
Component:	Release (media or process)	Assignee:	Nicolas Lécureuil <mageia>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11, sysadmin-bugs, tmb
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	6dev1, NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	Xorg log file after running drakx11 Xorg log file for CSM boot xorg.conf file for CSM live boot

Description Len Lawrence 2016-02-06 01:56:49 CET

Description of problem:
Testing 2016-02-04 iso written to USB drive using isodumper.
System is x86_64 UEFI with nvidia GTX 770 on an Intel Core i7 machine.        
The following is a condensed report of events after "Boot Mageia 6"

After a pause "problem with graphics" -> root login, stop sddm, drakx11
System hangs after the nvidia driver is configured.
Switch tocConsole: displays a login prompt for an instant and disappears. 
This repeats continuously at ~1Hz.
Back to the root session -> stop sddm, drakx11, exit -> live -> startx startkde
Screenful of messages including "no screens found", "closing log file"
"xinit: giving up", "xinit: ... connection refused", "xinit: server error"
Switched to root and repeated startx startkde and saw similar messages.
Noted these:
  "xauth: file /root/.serverauth.2783 does not exist"  (true)
  "xauth: file /root/.Xauthority does not exist"       (false)
$ cd root
$ ls -a 
  This lists among others: .xauth/ .Xauthority .Xdefaults
  .Xauthority is empty, with permissions 600.  .xauth contains export,
  a single character file '*'
Xorg.0.log shows that the nouveau driver is loaded, v4l starts device probe ->
  Failed to open DRM device for PCI.... -> No devices detected ->
  no screens found


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Mageia 6 development snapshot 1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run isodumper on Mageia-6-dev1-LiveDVD-PLASMA5-x86_64-DVD.iso
2.Configure BIOS to boot from USB stick
3.Boot Mageia 6


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Len Lawrence 2016-02-06 01:58:45 CET

Created attachment 7414 [details]
Xorg log file after running drakx11

Len Lawrence 2016-02-06 09:36:21 CET

Whiteboard: (none) => 6dev1

Comment 2 Len Lawrence 2016-02-06 09:41:25 CET

Created attachment 7415 [details]
Xorg log file for CSM boot

Testing the iso on a Legacy boot system led to the same failure.  Xorg.0.log file added for the sake of completeness.  Note that /root does not contain .Xauthority in this test.

Comment 3 Len Lawrence 2016-02-08 17:33:20 CET

Created attachment 7426 [details]
xorg.conf file for CSM live boot

Marja Van Waes 2016-02-13 22:20:24 CET

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => mageia

Rémi Verschelde 2016-02-16 10:34:16 CET

CC: (none) => tmb

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2016-04-05 19:21:58 CEST

@ Len

Is this bug still valid with the released 6dev1 Plasma5 LiveDVD?

Keywords: (none) => 6dev1, NEEDINFO
Whiteboard: 6dev1 => (none)

Comment 5 Len Lawrence 2016-04-05 21:43:26 CEST

@Marja

I believe it is.  I don't think there has been much change since those earlier tests.  The last one I tested is dated 2016-03-25 but to confirm I shall try it out again on both UEFI and CSM machines.

Comment 6 Len Lawrence 2016-05-09 17:01:13 CEST

No luck with either UEFI or legacy boot.

Comment 7 Len Lawrence 2016-09-15 12:47:24 CEST

@Marja
I think this bug should be closed as OLD.  Things have moved on a bit in this area.  Not really resolved - it is more a case of wontfix + old.

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