Bug 17845

Summary:	xinit failure for GNOME live iso in 6dev1
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Len Lawrence <tarazed25>
Component:	Release (media or process)	Assignee:	Thomas Backlund <tmb>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11, sysadmin-bugs
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	6dev1, NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	journal file from boot to login to tty Xorg.0.log for default X driver

Description Len Lawrence 2016-02-29 16:05:10 CET

Description of problem:
Testing 2016-02-28 GNOME Live DVD iso for QA.  Legacy boot from USB device on a Dell laptop.  Near the start the system tries to establish a user gdm session.  The screen does not scroll beyond c18 but the attempts continue for about 8 minutes.  Nothing else happens.  Login to a console succeeds.  Confirmed that the whole Live file system is available.  Mounted a USB drive on /mnt.  Switched to root and dumped the full journal.  Typed
'startx start.gnome' and xinit failed to connect to the X server using the nouveau driver.  Wonky screen photo attached.  In an earlier test I had tried to install the nvidia driver, with the same lack of success.  The journal and Xorg.0.log for this session are attached.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Mageia-6-dev1-LiveDVD-GNOME-x86_64-DVD

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot from the live iso on a CSM boot machine
2. Esc to view progress and wait for the end of the user session attempts
3. Login at a console and try to start the GNOME desktop

Comment 1 Len Lawrence 2016-02-29 16:10:45 CET

Created attachment 7504 [details]
journal file from boot to login to tty

5 MB file gzipped

Comment 2 Len Lawrence 2016-02-29 16:12:59 CET

Created attachment 7505 [details]
Xorg.0.log for default X driver

Marja Van Waes 2016-03-01 15:47:33 CET

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => tmb
Whiteboard: (none) => 6dev1

Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2016-04-05 20:54:25 CEST

is this bug still valid for the released 6-dev1-LiveDVD-GNOME-x86_64-DVD ?

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

Comment 4 Len Lawrence 2016-04-06 01:26:59 CEST

Shall check this sometime in the next 24 hours.

Comment 5 Len Lawrence 2016-04-06 11:56:55 CEST

@Marja
Er..hum.  The "publicly released Live isos"?  I am assuming these are the same as the latest available isos rsynced from the isoqa testing repository.
e.g. Mageia-6-dev1-LiveDVD-GNOME-x86_64-DVD
md5sum = e60e46b09dd990e3e76d2a316913fca6

If not then I have been blowing hot air.  If so then the bug is still relevant.
The Mageia blog mentions only the Classic DVD iso.

Comment 6 Len Lawrence 2016-09-15 12:53:17 CEST

This is another of those startup bugs which cannot be easily related to the current test isos.  I am inclined to close it and maybe reopen it if later isos show a similar fault.

Status: NEW => UNCONFIRMED
Ever confirmed: 1 => 0

Comment 7 Len Lawrence 2019-02-28 22:46:57 CET

This is also rather old so I think it should be closed as such.  There do not seem to have been any similar problems recently.

Comment 8 Lewis Smith 2019-03-02 10:46:44 CET

Doing as you suggest!

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