Description of problem: Trials with UEFI machine. 1) Soon after starting to boot the system (dracut?) gets to Starting Display Manager and Starting Accounts Service and goes into a loop which can last up to 10 minutes where it is trying to establish a new user session, at a frequency of about 1 Hz. 2) At the end of this time the system either hangs, forcing the user to login to a tty as root to check services and perform other actions, or, dracut prompts the user to login as root and run drakx11 because there is a problem with the display driver. 3) drakx11 .... tried nvidia, nouveau, vesa Choosing nvidia does not prompt the usual enquiry about installing the non-free driver. $ systemctl default or $ systemctl start sddm.service (no such service) Fails to start under nvidia X driver. Nouveau fails. Xorg vesa fails. tty login in as live with vesa X driver $ startx start.gnome The mouse cursor flashes up for a couple of seconds at very low resolution then a series of messages, such as: xauth: /home/live/.serverauth.8238 does not exist xauth: .Xauthority does not exist ................. Xinit: connection to Xserver lost Waiting for Xserver to shutdown error setting MTRR (base=0xf1000000, size=0x01000000, type=1) Invalid argument (22) The system directories offer a clue as to what to do next. There is an empty /run/gdm directory. $ systemctl start gdm.service That succeeds in displaying a GNOME session, albeit at a very coarse resolution (1024x768 maybe) which looks awful on a 4K display. It was possible to update the system and also install the nvidia driver against the current kernel but it was not clear how to restart the X server at that point. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Mageia-6-GNOME-Live-DVD iso How reproducible: Consistently. Similar problems for Live Plasma iso. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot iso from usb 2. Wait for an opportunity to login to a tty as root 3. Install vesa X driver and then 'systemctl start gdm.service'
CC: (none) => rolfpedersen
Which Nvidia card do you have? Please run: lspcidrake -v | grep Card Maybe an adjusted version of David Hodgin's workaround on a similar Radeon bug works (see https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17233#c12 ), please try: Login as root (no password) modprobe nvidia exit login as live (no password) startx startkde OR startx startgnome (as appropriate)
Keywords: (none) => 6dev1CC: (none) => marja11Assignee: bugsquad => tmb
# lspcidrake -v | grep Card Card:NVIDIA GeForce 420 series and later: NVIDIA Corporation|GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] [DISPLAY_VGA] (vendor:10de device:13c2 subv:1462 subd:3171) (rev: a1) Waiting for the Live iso to run through its boot sequence - looping on user administration right now. I captued an Xorg.0.log earlier but forgot to label it. It is from yesterday and shows the events associated with trying vesa X driver from tty2. One of my experiments was 'modprobe nvidia', which returned 'no such module' or somesuch. Shall try it again as you ask. Here goes: "Module nvidia not found in directory /lib/modules/4.4.6-desktop-1.mga6" live # startx startgnome This is followed by similar error messages as reported. Looking for the new log file now; OK, attaching.
Created attachment 7600 [details] Xorg log file from GNOME Live install
Created attachment 7601 [details] Journal file from boot of GNOME live iso
Came across this by chance; it is clearly history, so closing it.
CC: (none) => lewyssmithStatus: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => OLD