Bug 22507

Summary:	black screen during boot
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Franz Holzinger <flink>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	mageia
Version:	6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	drakx11	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Franz Holzinger 2018-02-02 12:08:17 CET

Description of problem:

I have this error with the Mageia-6-GNOME-LiveDVD:

"xt_addrtype: ipv6 does not support BROADCAST matching"

Then it stops booting.

And I could successfully boot Mageia-6-Xfce-Live and install the Light Display Manager. Afterwards I installed the GNOME package. None of the startup display mangers did work, except the X Display Manager XDM. I could sucessfully run the GNOME 3 desktop. However the screen resolution was not the 1440x900 as under Mageia5, but only 1024x768. I could change this via the Mageia Control Center. However the new resolution was stored but never used upon reboot. So I changed into a shell via Ctrl-Alt-F2 and executed the drakx11 command. 
I chose the resolutions I wanted. But nothing works. Now it does not even work with a 800x600 resolution. It never boots again into GNOME. I wonder why I cannot get my former resolution back. drakx11 seems to have broken something.


It is a HP Elitebook 6930p notebook with a PnP Monitor, Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset.

Unter Windows Vista I have 1440x900 32 bit screen resolution.

I even tried to boot with noxorgconf and nowayland.

I need these kernel parameters:
acpi=off  xdriver=vesa

Comment 1 Franz Holzinger 2018-02-02 12:29:11 CET

When I use drakx11, then it does not matter which screen resolution I choose. Every test says: (EE) Fatal server error

Comment 2 Franz Holzinger 2018-02-02 13:09:24 CET

When I boot with Mageia6-Xfce-Live and open the MCC and the Graphical Server, then I get these correct and perfect settings:

graphic card: Intel 810 and later
monitor: Flat Panel 1440x900
resolution:         1440x900 24 bpp

Why can't this also be used for the installed Mageia 6?

Comment 3 Martin Whitaker 2018-02-04 10:26:52 CET

(In reply to Franz Holzinger from comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> 
> I have this error with the Mageia-6-GNOME-LiveDVD:
> 
> "xt_addrtype: ipv6 does not support BROADCAST matching"

As noted in the other bug report, that message is just informational. Normally the system switches to graphical mode before it is output, so you don't see it.

> Then it stops booting.

Is this before or after you reach the screen that asks you to select a language?

If before, check again that the md5sum of the ISO is correct, and if you can, try copying onto and using a different DVD or USB stick. There shouldn't be any difference between the GNOME Live and the Xfce Live before you reach that point.

When you say

> I need these kernel parameters:
> acpi=off  xdriver=vesa

are you also using those parameters when you use the Xfce Live? What led you to use those parameters?

CC: (none) => mageia
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 4 Franz Holzinger 2018-02-05 15:38:04 CET

I have tried it again without adding of any kernel parameter. Now the GNOME Live DVD works. I have used the paramter xdriver=vesa because it has been needed with Mageia 4 and 5. I have added "acpi=off" because of ACPI exception messages.

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

Comment 5 Martin Whitaker 2018-02-05 19:42:34 CET

Glad to hear your problem is resolved.

It's quite common to see error messages about ACPI when the system boots - see bug  20090. Unless they cause real problems, it's best to just ignore them. Setting acpi=off may disable some functions which would otherwise work.

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)