Bug 17912

Summary: Boots to black screen in VirtualBox
Product: Mageia Reporter: William Kenney <wilcal.int>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Nicolas test <neoclust>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: caulier.gilles, lists.jjorge, mageia, marja11, nic, thierry.vignaud
Version: CauldronKeywords: 6dev1, NEEDINFO
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: x11-driver-video-vboxvideo? CVE:
Status comment:

Description William Kenney 2016-03-08 18:49:34 CET
Description of problem:

In Virtual Box installing from:

ISO Name: Mageia-6-dev1-x86_64-DVD.iso
DATE.txt: Mon Mar  7 23:20:36 CET 2016
md5sum:  1a43aaf40a8f3aca6419d3350991f4f5

Installs cleanly, no reported errors, when booting freezes on a completely black screen.
Same for both Plasma and Gnome.
Boots to a working desktop on real hardware.
William Kenney 2016-03-08 18:52:40 CET

Whiteboard: (none) => 6-dev1

Marja Van Waes 2016-03-09 20:30:12 CET

Keywords: (none) => 6dev1
CC: (none) => marja11
Whiteboard: 6-dev1 => (none)

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2016-03-09 20:35:12 CET
(In reply to William Kenney from comment #0)

> 
> Installs cleanly, no reported errors, when booting freezes on a completely
> black screen.

Is that before or after reaching the Display Manager?

> Same for both Plasma and Gnome.
> Boots to a working desktop on real hardware.

Can you boot with splash=verbose instead of quiet, and record the messages you see (especially the last ones)
Comment 2 William Kenney 2016-03-10 18:58:24 CET
(In reply to Marja van Waes from comment #1)

> Can you boot with splash=verbose instead of quiet, and record the messages
> you see (especially the last ones)

What key do I hit to pause the scrolling boot process?
Comment 3 Nic Baxter 2016-03-13 03:40:35 CET
Hi William
I can not reproduce your report. I have installed 

ISO Name: Mageia-6-dev1-x86_64-DVD.iso 
Date.txt: Fri Mar 11 13:49:02 CET 2016
md5sum: 9e3744a77d2dc74e945a7fe4aca6f4b7 

Installed Gnome, rebooted and launched as expected. Possibly this has been fixed or I have different settings in Virtualbox. 
I only settings I changed from default are, up the video ram to 128 MB, enable 3D acceleration and change networking to bridged.

CC: (none) => nic

Comment 4 Nic Baxter 2016-03-13 04:22:19 CET
Further investigation. I can reproduce this report when using ssdm instead gdm. 
William would you change to gdm and see if that works for you.
Comment 5 Nic Baxter 2016-03-13 05:41:31 CET
I think I have found the bug. My research tells me sddm requires opengl and Virtualbox only provide opengl after installing the guest additions. So I switched to gdm and installed the guest additions and switched back to sddm. It booted correctly with the login screen.
I found this reference which seem to have relevance.

https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/575


'It's not SDDM fault as it's Qt5Gui which needs OpenGL 2+ features.
Imho good solution would be if SDDM before starting sddm-greeter checked for OpenGL 2+ and if this is not met then export QT_XCB_FORCE_SOFTWARE_OPENGL=1 to use software rendering.'

S

Assignee: bugsquad => neoclust

Comment 6 José Jorge 2016-04-02 09:37:39 CEST
(In reply to Nic Baxter from comment #5)
> https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/575
> 
I applied the Fedora script indicated, please test SDDM without guest additions with qtbase5-5.6.0-2.mga6.

CC: (none) => lists.jjorge

Comment 7 Thierry Vignaud 2016-06-17 11:54:48 CEST
Is it still a valid problem?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Component: Installer => RPM Packages
Source RPM: (none) => x11-driver-video-vboxvideo?

Comment 8 Nicolas Lécureuil 2016-06-17 11:58:09 CEST
i don't reproduce.

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 9 Gilles Caulier 2016-06-24 23:00:56 CEST
Fully reproducible here with current Cauldron.

Gilles Caulier

CC: (none) => caulier.gilles

Comment 10 Gilles Caulier 2016-06-24 23:04:29 CEST
Screenshots :

https://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/27271383003
https://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/27806807171
https://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/27271378864
https://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/27883187955
https://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/27883187085

Plasma5 desktop was used before to update.

Notat that my Cauldron have not been updated since 2 months (around 1400 packages up to date)

Gilles Caulier
Comment 11 William Kenney 2016-06-25 06:33:36 CEST
Try the latest Live media isos
Comment 12 Gilles Caulier 2016-06-25 08:49:04 CEST
Just installed last dev1 ISO : It's a big black hole after to reboot.

Install yourself from a scratch to reproduce...

Gilles Caulier
Comment 13 José Jorge 2016-06-25 19:36:21 CEST
I think we should wait for dev2 ISO which avout there.
Comment 14 Gilles Caulier 2016-06-26 08:39:11 CEST
I found the problem about dev1 iso black screen : disabling 3D display extension in VirtualBox machine properties fix the problem.

Gilles Caulier
Comment 15 William Kenney 2016-12-21 21:40:17 CET
Vbox is working pretty good now in M6

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