Bug 18397 - mouse is an black "X" at login and nothing happens
Summary: mouse is an black "X" at login and nothing happens
Status: RESOLVED OLD
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: x86_64 Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mageia Bug Squad
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Keywords: NEEDINFO
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Reported: 2016-05-07 18:13 CEST by Sabrina Gottlieb
Modified: 2018-03-18 18:20 CET (History)
1 user (show)

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journalctl -ab (111.88 KB, text/plain)
2016-05-08 18:47 CEST, Sabrina Gottlieb
Details

Description Sabrina Gottlieb 2016-05-07 18:13:02 CEST
Description of problem:
After first login with "Plasma" (poor text quality) , relogin with "LXDE" , then outlogged pressing "restart" a strange window appears an left upper corner and the mouse became a black "X" . 
Turned off the PC . Next day: 
Message "failed to get cgroup: no Medium found // starting version 229" always appears two times , then login-screen > Plasma/US > password > /DE , changing to LXDE..etc. , pressing ENTER nothing happens , clicking "LOGIN" mousecursor become black "X" > black screen for some seconds > login appears again . NOTE: No wrong password message ! Then 
Password > ENTER > mouse get into "X" . Clicking on "LOGIN" nothing happens . Only can turn off the PC . When clicking on LOGIN instead of ENTER the above problem occurs several times . 
 

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


How reproducible: every time


Steps to Reproduce:
1. login with mouse-click or ENTER
2.
3.
Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2016-05-08 11:21:45 CEST
Hi Sabrina,

After such failed attempts to log in:

* Please switch to TTY2 with ctrl+alt+F2 and log in as user

* type:
        mkdir USBkey

* attach a USB key

* type: 
        dmesg        (to see whether the USB key is sdb, sdc, sdd, etc.)

* become root

* if the USB key is e.g. sdc, then type:
                                         mount /dev/sdc1 USBkey/
  
  (replace "sdc1" with "sdb1", "sdd1", etc., if needed)

* type:
        journalctl -ab > USBkey/18397journal.txt

* type: 
        poweroff        (to shut your system down)

* attach 18397journal.txt to this bug report

Thanks :-)

CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 2 Sabrina Gottlieb 2016-05-08 18:47:08 CEST
Created attachment 7766 [details]
journalctl -ab
Comment 3 Sabrina Gottlieb 2016-05-08 18:53:12 CEST
This does not function as you want . But i have extracted it for you.
Before you use this read this : 
The problem might be the implemented nv-driver . 
1) At first login on PLASMA the text quality was extremely poor so i scaled the screenfont a little bit larger . After this , Plasma is nothing for me , i logged in on LXDE . Then i (must) connect to ethernet because of the bug-report . Later i downloaded newest driver nv-361.42.run . Reason: I have a brandnew 55"-UHD-TV,  >1080p is very very big on this, and wanted to know if the graphiccard makes 2,5k or 4k . But i dont know if i installed at this time the nv-driver . After logging out i clicked on RESTART , because i was not able to read the buttontext , so i want to know what happens .

2) I read purely by chance in another bug that others have also problems with this impolemented 420-or-later-nv-nouveau-driver .  

3) Yesterday night after a film i installed (maybe again) this nv-361.42.run with DKMS-kernel-module . drakx11 messaged after configuring "fatal server error" . 
Other Messages : Nouveau-kernel-driver incompatible with 361.42. Reenable Nouveau = del /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveau.conf ...failed. 
Others on system :
- ehci-hcd should be loaded before uhci/ohci , not after .
- Failed to start Plymouth Boot Screen . 

The attachment "ab" is not from this "last boot" as you want , is brandnew , 
"a" is all (3,8MB not uploadable ).  
So .
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THIS NOUVEAU-NV-DRIVER ??? 

Maybe the "bug" was only scaling the screen font and the appearing "strange window" only bad luck . 
-
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The system hangs now at "starting version 229".
I will reinstall the mga-6-dev1 for you , if you have any wishes please feel free..
Comment 4 Sabrina Gottlieb 2016-05-09 00:11:53 CEST
It was interesting FOR ME . Mistake-Free installing is a very difficult thing .
For w98se i need fully 3 month , the system is now running since 15 years . Only 1 bug (Acrobat) known. 

#
I have now analyzed the timeline in [journalctl -a] . 
Installing the nv-361.42 is first quoted on line 20216 .
That's 10 hours later than the bug appears. 



0001 6.5./07:21 start installing system 

3549  kernel: NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  352.79  Wed Jan 13 16:17:53 PST 2016 
3607  6.5./9:32 dkms-autorebuild.sh[692]: nvidia-current (352.79-2.mga6.nonfree): Already installed on this kernel.

xxxx  6.5./10:10 email aktivating bugreport
        10:17 bugreport sended ... arrived 10:21 line 7620

8880  7.5./7:56 NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  352.79  Wed Jan 13 16:17:53 PST 2016
      7.5./10:10 "bug 18383" : "I've sended the bugreport , i logged out , i clicked on the right button , an window appears with the mouse-"X" . Then shutting down . Today i have the problem , the mouse is an "X" , i can not get into the system now. Sorry."

20016 7.5./19:50 dkms-autorebuild.sh[10085]: nvidia (361.42): Already installed on this kernel.
20280 7.5./19:51 kernel: 
NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 361.42, but
NVRM: this kernel module has the version 352.79.  Please
NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
NVRM: components have the same version.
Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2018-03-14 08:50:39 CET
Hi Sabrina,

I never managed to really understand this issue and I also failed to understand whom to assign it to.

From the description, I understood that you reached SDDM or another display manager. However, in the attached log I failed to see anything about a starting display manager.

(In reply to Sabrina Gottlieb from comment #4)
> It was interesting FOR ME . Mistake-Free installing is a very difficult
> thing .

Does the above mean that this issue is not a bug?

Kind regards,
Marja

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 6 Sabrina Gottlieb 2018-03-17 02:30:44 CET
I don´t know if this was a 'real' bug . 
> Mistake-Free installing is a very difficult thing . < 
This you can repeat again and again .. 

Interesting is , i deleted this Log last christmas . 

I work mainly on w98se and in web with w2k . Only some https-sites are not available . If i need this sites i start with mageia-5/32 on a P4/2,4GHz . 
This is very annoying . So i bought a Raspi-3B to switch only the monitor between DVI and HDMI . But i don´t want to exchange Mageia-5 with newest Raspbian . 

The problem is : i dont have the time to put all my web-files to Mageia . I work with very old software (Corel-5 from 1994) so i have very difficult format-problems . The solution is to work with more than ONE PC . 

For Mageia i had bought three AMD-FX but i have no time to install this machines . So this very old installing-problem was remaining on this FX-machine . But i don´t know today what --exactly-- happened in those days . 
Again : > Mistake-Free installing is a very difficult thing . < 

You have to give 100% . 
Your question must be unanswered . 
I don´t know if this was a 'real' bug . 

----------------


TIP : 
I remember on the time the 16-bit were changed into 32-bit . 
'Now' we are changing 32-bit into 64-bit . Even then problems also today . 
AMD-FX is for 32- and also 64-bit . If you use hardware (or software) which is  ""32-/64-bit-M I X E D"" 
many problems could follow . 

With Corel-5 (designed for win 3.1) i only can work up to w98se . On w2k/XP only TrueTypeFonts are available because the standalone Adobe-Type-Manager were integrated into MS-OS . So Corel cannot get access ... including other crazy 'mistakes' with newer OS .  
On hardware there were much more problems including graphic+sound . A little newer interface ? Your machine will never - or ever - run . 
  

Ähh, NEVER TOUCH A RUNNING SYSTEM ! 
> Mistake-Free installing is a very difficult thing . < 

SOFTWARE runs on HARDWARE 
Could you imagine that 'problem'?
Comment 7 Marja Van Waes 2018-03-18 18:20:01 CET
Thanks for your reply, Sabrina.

I'll close this report as OLD, then ;-)

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


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