Bug 2426

Summary:	can't boot after yesterday's updates
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	corneliu dabija <corneliu.dabija>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	/var/log/messages

Description corneliu dabija 2011-08-14 17:31:30 CEST

Description of problem:

I updated yesterday the kernel (I think) to 3.0.2. Now I can't boot anymore. I tried to use the previous kernel and still can't boot. With both kernels the boot stops at line:
INIT: version 2.86 booting

Now I can access Mageia's partition from Fedora. 
This is harware info from Fedora:

[corneliu@localhost ~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge Alternate
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (ext gfx port 0)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 2)
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 5)
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [IDE mode]
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3c)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE Controller
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:14.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV710 [Radeon HD 4350]
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV710/730
02:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 03)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06)
[corneliu@localhost ~]$

Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2011-08-14 17:52:08 CEST

and in failsafe mode ?

maybe you can see some log in /var/log/messages

Comment 2 corneliu dabija 2011-08-14 18:16:58 CEST

Created attachment 719 [details]
/var/log/messages

Comment 3 corneliu dabija 2011-08-14 18:19:13 CEST

Also, while booting in safe mode I saw that the fglrx module could not be installed and the system was trying to fall back to the radeon driver.

Comment 4 corneliu dabija 2011-08-14 18:33:38 CEST

Also, while booting in safe mode I saw that the fglrx module could not be installed and the system was trying to fall back to the radeon driver.

Comment 5 Manuel Hiebel 2011-08-14 19:42:02 CEST

You can launch XFdrake to reload a good configuration for your driver, perhaps you can also force the rebuild of the module.

Comment 6 corneliu dabija 2011-08-14 21:11:47 CEST

OK, I tried to fix the proprietary driver with XFdrake but it doesn't work. I used XFdrake to switch back to the radeon driver. I also had to remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf because X doesn't start with the old xorg.conf. Now I am able to log into KDE.

Comment 7 Manuel Hiebel 2011-08-17 12:34:43 CEST

ok so close

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

Comment 8 corneliu dabija 2011-08-17 13:49:58 CEST

You can close it if you want to, but has the fglrx thing been fixed?

Comment 9 Manuel Hiebel 2011-08-17 23:59:30 CEST

I don't know you have some details of the issue ?

Comment 10 corneliu dabija 2011-08-18 03:32:06 CEST

Like I said before: Mageia does not boot with kernel + fglrx. And it is not possible to fix the broken fglrx using XFdrake. To work around this issue I switched to the radeon driver but I prefer fglrx. So I think this bug should remain open until fglrx is fixed.

Comment 11 corneliu dabija 2011-09-06 02:40:05 CEST

I reinstalled Mageia and reinstalled fglrx and it seems to work well now, so I can't reproduce this bug anymore.