Bug 753

Summary:	black screen after installation
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Peter D <0123peter>
Component:	Release (media or process)	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	Normal	CC:	dmorganec
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	xorg error log xorg config file dmesg file Xorg.0.log with nVidia driver after updates

Description Peter D 2011-04-10 04:52:24 CEST

Description of problem:

Installation proceeds normally, then on first boot there is a black screen.  There is a cursor in the top left corner.  NumLock and CapsLock cause the keyboard LED to change.  Control-Alt-[1-12] key combinations do not do anything.  Ctl-Alt-BackSpace does nothing.  Ctl-Alt-Delete causes a reboot.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Mageia Beta one i586 DVD

How reproducible:

One machine works.  The other machine failed twice out of two attempts.  (The hardware works with Mandriva 2010.2)  It failed both with a boot DVD and the iso on the hard drive and it failed after installing directly from the DVD.  

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Install
2.  Boot


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Peter D 2011-04-10 05:27:52 CEST

There are errors in Xorg.0.log (no devices detected) and dmesg, but they seem to refer to partitions not in use (then test installation is entirely on partition 10).  I will attach those two files.  


[root@live log]# lspci -s 1:00.0 -n
01:00.0 0300: 10de:0a65 (rev a2)
[root@live log]# lspci -s 1:00.0
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT200 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)

Comment 2 Peter D 2011-04-10 05:33:54 CEST

Created attachment 219 [details]
xorg error log

Comment 3 Peter D 2011-04-10 05:35:40 CEST

Created attachment 220 [details]
xorg config file

Comment 4 Peter D 2011-04-10 05:37:02 CEST

Created attachment 221 [details]
dmesg file

Comment 5 Peter D 2011-04-13 02:04:53 CEST

The errors in dmesg (audit: name_count maxed, losing inode data: dev=00:05, inode=6409) have not re-occurred.  

Also only got the login prompt rather than the graphical display with the nvidia-current driver.  And still failed after updating kernel and driver (and everything else).

Comment 6 Peter D 2011-04-13 03:19:07 CEST

Created attachment 233 [details]
Xorg.0.log with nVidia driver after updates

Comment 7 Peter D 2011-04-21 07:49:35 CEST

I suspect that this is a manifestation of bug #904, but I will have to do another fresh install to find out - and this is my main machine that I use for other things.  It might take a few days, but I will try to find out if the nouveau driver is subject to the same bug (and fix) as the nVidia driver.

Comment 8 D Morgan 2011-05-01 22:51:20 CEST

can you test with mageia 1 Beta2 please ?

CC: (none) => dmorganec

Comment 9 Peter D 2011-05-10 10:27:49 CEST

Sorry for the delay.  

Beta 2 booted into a graphical display.  :-)  And it still worked after installing the closed source driver.

Comment 10 Ahmad Samir 2011-05-10 19:49:21 CEST

Thanks for the feedback.

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