In this comment in another bug report: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19598#c8 Renato Dali reported: > F2 did not work, though a message did appear stating that screenshots would be > in the above mentioned directory; alas, after reboot they weren't there. @ Renato Can you please attach /root/drakx/report.bug.xz of that install to this bug report?
Created attachment 8680 [details] Installation with no screenshots.
Hi, Marja, sorry for the delay... I had to reinstall because in the meantime I did another install without taking screenshots. In this one I pressed F2, got the warning about "Screenshots will be in..." and there they weren't after all. Thanks for organizing the bugs, BTW.
Created attachment 8681 [details] Nothing in this directory...
Created attachment 8682 [details] Files in /root/drakx
(In reply to Renato Dali from comment #1) > Created attachment 8680 [details] > Installation with no screenshots. [marja@localhost Downloads]$ xzcat 19810report.bug.xz | grep fb2png * running: fb2png -p /mnt/root/DrakX-screenshots/1.png fb2png: cannot open framebuffer - No such file or directory* to put in /mnt/etc/modprobe.preload evdev * running: fb2png -p /mnt/root/DrakX-screenshots/1.png fb2png: cannot open framebuffer - No such file or directory* running: fb2png -p /mnt/root/DrakX-screenshots/1.png fb2png: cannot open framebuffer - No such file or directory* running: gurpmi2 --auto-select with root /mnt * running: fb2png -p /mnt/root/DrakX-screenshots/1.png fb2png: cannot open framebuffer - No such file or directory* running: fb2png -p /mnt/root/DrakX-screenshots/1.png fb2png: cannot open framebuffer - No such file or directory* running: fb2png -p /mnt/root/DrakX-screenshots/1.png fb2png: cannot open framebuffer - No such file or directory* running: monitor-edid -v --perl [marja@localhost Downloads]$
Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)Summary: F2 screenshots aren't in /root/DrakX-screenshots after install => F2 screenshots aren't in /root/DrakX-screenshots after install (fb2png: cannot open framebuffer )
I would say this is because on your system, fbdev didn't worked out. And indeed: * Trying with server Driver:fbdev * Trying with server Driver:vesa For the record, the fb2png tool only works if we use the fbdev driver. What surprises me is that it happened with a Nvidia card. This usually happens on very old intel cards. I've added Xorg logs to installer logs but sadly, that only cover the last tried driver and thus we don't have logs for the fbdev driver. That sayd, those logs are old (DrakX V17.46 was released in June, we're currently at 17.60)
CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Summary: F2 screenshots aren't in /root/DrakX-screenshots after install (fb2png: cannot open framebuffer ) => No F2 screenshots when we use 'vesa' driver as falback for 'fbdev' ("fb2png: cannot open framebuffer")
If someone knows about a more generic tool that still works when eg: clicking with right mouse (most x11 grabbers fails if the x11 cursor is "active"...)
Priority: Normal => Low
Hi, Thierry, Would this not work? xwd -root -out screenshot.xwd (from http://askubuntu.com/questions/226829/how-to-take-screenshot-of-an-x11-based-gui-from-a-text-terminal-such-as-tty1 ) Actually the mentioned page goes on to say why it would not work from a text console, but I assume that is not the case of the Mageia installer -- AFAIU it requires X11. (BTW: Gimp opens xwd files) I didn't understand quite well the part about logs... I always install Mageia 6 from a DVD burned with sta1. I'm not using a rolling image or nightly build (if something like that exists).
xwd is out b/c it doesn't grab an opened contextual menu. Also we would need to convert from a very huge image to png/jpg. Though it looks like scrot works fine
commit 5d92deb02d6980b5aa264d0b59d4b289d49cf099 Author: Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud@...> Date: Sun Nov 20 22:31:45 2016 +0100 use scrot instead of fb2png (mga#19810) rationale: fb2png only work with the 'fbdev' driver and thus doesn't work at all when fallbacking to the 'vesa' driver --- Commit Link: http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/commit/?id=5d92deb02d6980b5aa264d0b59d4b289d49cf099
That's great news... thanks, Thierry.
(In reply to Mageia Robot from comment #10) > commit 5d92deb02d6980b5aa264d0b59d4b289d49cf099 > Author: Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud@...> > Date: Sun Nov 20 22:31:45 2016 +0100 > > use scrot instead of fb2png (mga#19810) > > rationale: fb2png only work with the 'fbdev' driver and thus doesn't > work at all when fallbacking to the 'vesa' driver > --- > Commit Link: > > http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/commit/ > ?id=5d92deb02d6980b5aa264d0b59d4b289d49cf099 Closing as fixed, then.
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED