Bug 34524 - X fails to start with `x11-driver-video-vmware-13.4.0-2.mga10`
Summary: X fails to start with `x11-driver-video-vmware-13.4.0-2.mga10`
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel and Drivers maintainers
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Reported: 2025-08-01 06:21 CEST by Sam Vere
Modified: 2025-08-10 18:36 CEST (History)
3 users (show)

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Source RPM: x11-driver-video-vmware-13.4.0-2.mga10.src.rpm
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Description Sam Vere 2025-08-01 06:21:30 CEST
Description of problem:
I have installed Cauldron using netinstall iso on VirtualBox and installed plasma desktop. The graphical session fails to start with only blank screen shown. This is same for both wayland and x11. Starting X using 'tty' shows the server crashes with error: "(EE) Failed to load module .../vmware_drv.so: undefined symbol: vgaHWGetIndex".

I downgraded to version released to Mageia 9 (`x11-driver-video-vmware-13.4.0-1.mga9.rpm`) and that fixes the issue.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
x11-driver-video-vmware-13.4.0-2.mga10.rpm


How reproducible:
Each login attempt fails.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install cauldron on VirtualBox
2. Install graphical desktop (I installed Plasma)
3. Try to login (wayland and x11 session both fail)
Comment 1 Jani Välimaa 2025-08-03 13:44:04 CEST
Try again with x11-driver-video-vmware-13.4.0-3 available in mirrors anytime soon.
Comment 2 Lewis Smith 2025-08-03 21:27:38 CEST
Thank you Sam for the report, and Jani for the encouraging comment.

Sam: please report back when you have tried the update. If it works, you can close the bug.

Assignee: bugsquad => kernel
CC: (none) => lewyssmith

Comment 3 Giuseppe Ghibò 2025-08-04 16:56:42 CEST
It didn't affected the the building, however it remained a typo on top of SPEC file, at line 3, after %global _disable_ld_now 1...

https://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/x11-driver-video-vmware/current/SPECS/x11-driver-video-vmware.spec?revision=2263744&view=markup#l3

CC: (none) => ghibomgx

Comment 4 Jani Välimaa 2025-08-05 13:04:58 CEST
(In reply to Giuseppe Ghibò from comment #3)
> It didn't affected the the building, however it remained a typo on top of
> SPEC file, at line 3, after %global _disable_ld_now 1...
> 
> https://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/x11-driver-video-vmware/current/
> SPECS/x11-driver-video-vmware.spec?revision=2263744&view=markup#l3

Typo is now fixed in SVN.
Comment 5 Giuseppe Ghibò 2025-08-05 13:19:26 CEST
Thanks.

As a reminder if someone has time, and since this seems recursive lately, maybe we could add some note for the _disable_ld_now usage either in https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Underlinking_issues_in_packaging and/or https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Overlinking_issues_in_packaging
Comment 6 Sam Vere 2025-08-09 16:52:54 CEST
Hi all,
Apologies for late reply. With the latest build the issue is resolved. Thank you very much.
Comment 7 Sam Vere 2025-08-09 16:56:28 CEST
Hi all,
Apologies for late reply. With the latest build the issue is resolved. Thank you very much.
Comment 8 Sam Vere 2025-08-09 17:02:36 CEST
(In reply to Lewis Smith from comment #2)
> Thank you Sam for the report, and Jani for the encouraging comment.
> 
> Sam: please report back when you have tried the update. If it works, you can
> close the bug.

Hi Lewis,
Sorry, I tried to close the bug but instead ended up commenting twice. First time, I commented without changing the 'Status'. Second time, I did update the 'Status' before clicking 'Save Changes', but still the status is not updated.
Comment 9 Jani Välimaa 2025-08-10 18:36:59 CEST
Closing as FIXED.

Resolution: (none) => FIXED
CC: (none) => jani.valimaa
Status: NEW => RESOLVED


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