Bug 9344

Summary:	Mageia 3 beta 3 live CD fails under KVM
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Antoine Pitrou <pitrou>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	nelg
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	live cd startup logs log files, lspci, dmidecode, top, lsmod, etc

Description Antoine Pitrou 2013-03-12 11:30:11 CET

When trying to run Mageia-3-beta3-LiveDVD-GNOME-x86_64-DVD.iso on a KVM-based x86-64 virtual machine, the best I can get at is the following screenshot. After that, nothing happens.


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Antoine Pitrou 2013-03-12 11:30:58 CET

Created attachment 3604 [details]
live cd startup logs

Comment 2 Manuel Hiebel 2013-03-13 22:24:29 CET

and in failsafe mode ?

Component: Installer => RPM Packages

Comment 3 Glen Ogilvie 2013-03-20 11:21:12 CET

I can also get the same behaviour with:  Mageia-3-beta3-LiveDVD-KDE4-x86_64-DVD.iso

After some time, CPU goes to 100% in the guest, ctrl-alt-F2, etc, allows me to login via the console.   I have collected some logs and details as to what is going on. (attached.


The most intersting details I've found is in the Xorg log:

   63.814] (II) CIRRUS: driver for Cirrus chipsets: CLGD5430, CLGD5434-4, CLGD5434-8,
	CLGD5436, CLGD5446, CLGD5480, CL-GD5462, CL-GD5464, CL-GD5464BD,
	CL-GD5465, CL-GD7548, CL-GD7555, CL-GD7556
[    63.814] (++) using VT number 1

[    63.814] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for v4l
[    63.814] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for cirrus
[    63.814] (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
[    63.814] (--) Chipset CLGD5446 found
[    63.814] (EE) cirrus: The PCI device 0xb8 at 00@00:02:0 has a kernel module claiming it.
[    63.814] (EE) cirrus: This driver cannot operate until it has been unloaded.
[    63.814] (EE) No devices detected.
[    63.814] 
Fatal server error:
[    63.814] no screens found
[    63.814] (EE) 
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
	 at http://bugs.mageia.org
 for help. 
[    63.814] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[    63.814] (EE) 

And top:
PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+ COMMAND                                                                                         
  124 root      20   0  114m  82m 1296 R 99.8  2.1   5:45.19 plymouthd

CC: (none) => nelg

Comment 4 Glen Ogilvie 2013-03-20 11:24:38 CET

Created attachment 3640 [details]
log files, lspci, dmidecode, top, lsmod, etc

Comment 5 Glen Ogilvie 2013-03-20 11:38:52 CET

tried pressing F6, and choosing safe mode, when booting the live CD.. Same behaviour.

Changing the KVM video card from cirrus to qlx, vmvga, vga will resolve the problem. 

If this is difficult to fix.. maybe displaying a message saying to change the video card that KVM presents might be the way to go?

setting the kvm video card to "xen" also does not work. (hardly surprizing)

Comment 6 Glen Ogilvie 2013-03-20 11:53:21 CET

Also, as additional info.  The installer: Mageia-3-beta3-x86_64-DVD.iso works OK with KVM video card set to cirrus.

Comment 7 Glen Ogilvie 2013-03-27 11:15:10 CET

To add to this,

I can get the exact same error, by:
Installing from DVD, using minimal with no X

Booting from install DVD, choosing upgrade
adding a graphical display.

Boot system.
X won't start, it claims: kernel module claiming it

Comment 8 Marja Van Waes 2015-04-17 22:54:32 CEST

Sorry, but this bug saw no action since over 2 yrs ago. 
No cauldron package has stayed the same since then.

Closing as OLD

Please reopen if this report is still valid for _current_ cauldron and/or fully
updated Mageia 4

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