Bug 23836 - Cauldron no longer boots when upgrading initscripts to 9.78.9
Summary: Cauldron no longer boots when upgrading initscripts to 9.78.9
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 23767
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal major
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Assignee: Mageia Bug Squad
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Reported: 2018-11-11 18:28 CET by Frédéric "LpSolit" Buclin
Modified: 2018-11-11 19:20 CET (History)
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Source RPM: initscripts-9.78.9.mga7
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Description Frédéric "LpSolit" Buclin 2018-11-11 18:28:46 CET 
When upgrading initscripts from 9.78.8 to 9.78.9, cauldron no longer boots successfully. The cursor blinks hyperfast and nothing more happens. The login screen never appears.

The culprit is this commit:

http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/forks/initscripts/commit/?h=distro/mga&id=0ecd8e7d4731496c9f8f5c9b1836d32f1c828f25
Comment 1 Martin Whitaker 2018-11-11 18:49:26 CET 
Is this on real hardware or in VirtualBox. If VirtualBox, you may have hit bug 23767.

Does Ctrl-Alt-F2 get you to a tty login?
Comment 2 Frédéric "LpSolit" Buclin 2018-11-11 18:56:52 CET 
Yes, I'm using VirtualBox. Ctrl-Alt-F2 works. The text is blinking really fast, but it's readable.
Comment 3 Martin Whitaker 2018-11-11 19:05:28 CET 
If you leave it long enough it should settle down (when the DM gives up trying to start the X server). Login as root, edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and change the video driver from "vboxvideo" to "modesetting".
Comment 4 Frédéric "LpSolit" Buclin 2018-11-11 19:10:43 CET 
(In reply to Martin Whitaker from comment #3)
> change the video driver from "vboxvideo" to "modesetting".

Fun, the X server started immediately when doing this change. I didn't need to reboot. Thank you. :)

So, is the problem in initscripts or in vboxvideo?
Comment 5 Martin Whitaker 2018-11-11 19:16:58 CET 
It's in vboxvideo (the X driver, not the kernel driver). In Mageia 6 we used the modesetting X driver for Vbox (IIRC, because of problems with the vboxvideo driver). It seems the change back was premature...
Comment 6 Martin Whitaker 2018-11-11 19:20:22 CET 
Marking as duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 23767 ***

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