Description of problem: After a long delay booting gives a "sad face" and the text, "Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please contact a system administrator". Ctr-Alt-F3, telinit 3 and startx does get Gnome running. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Mageia2 beta2 i586 DVD. The problem persisted after a few hundred MB of updates. How reproducible: Only occurs on one machine, with an nVidia GeForce2 MX/MX400 card. The problem persists after a re-install and many reboots. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install 2. Boot. 3.
Source RPM: (none) => gnome-shell
After a long delay booting gives a "sad face" and the text, "Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please contact a system administrator". where do you see that ?
Full screen. There were quite a few attempts to start X, then finally, just the black background, the mouse pointer, the text (in white), and a little graphic of a keyboard and a screen with a sad face on it.
Less bad with Mageia2 rc i586. VESA driver works (but is not selected automatically). nVidia driver not released by nVidia yet. Nouveau does not work. The lock screen looks OK, but unlocking it just shows plain blue, the date and the mouse pointer.
Hi, This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment. Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2. Thanks :) Cheers, marja
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
Still a bug in Mageia 2. The "sad face" is gone - but it still does not work. No nVidia driver is available - yet. The default auto selected Nouveau driver does not work, either with runlevel 5 or with "startx". The old VESA driver works, but not with Gnome 3. It fall back to Gnome 2. Interestingly, the warning pop up box has a small version of "sad face" graphic on it, so Gnome 3 was probably getting involved in the original presentation of the bug. It should not matter, but the monitor being used has a broken EDID.
Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)CC: (none) => sander.lepik
Summary: Mageia2 b2 fails on nVidia Geforce2 MX/MX400 nv11 => Mageia2 fails on nVidia Geforce2 MX/MX400 nv11
Found the trigger. MCC -> set up the graphical server -> options -> Enable Translucency (Composite extention). It is selected by default. Unchecking it makes the problem go away. The status is; Mageia 2 VESA works nouveau needs to be de-selected nVidia needs to be de-selected Mageia 3 beta VESA works nouveau needs to be de-selected nVidia not tested. Should I clone the bug report so that there are separate ones for Mageia 2 and Mageia 3? Or change the title?
bug still valid ?
Version: Cauldron => 3
Yes. It is still necessary to de-select translucency in the release version of Mageia 3. I suspect that there were some other problems that appeared and disappeared, see bugs #9708 and #9711.
CC: (none) => anssi.hannula, mageia, olav
See also: Bug 5976 - Dead lock with nvidia video card Bug 9708 - M3 beta gives black screen at boot with vga=788 Bug 9711 - Intel chipset netbook completely loses video
CC: (none) => jarillon
@Peter D: Still in Mageia 4? @tv: Do you know how to implement the work around from comment 6 so we can solve this going forward?
CC: (none) => remco, thierry.vignaud
Thomas, Anssi: see comment #6: deselecting "Enable Translucency (Composite extention)" fixes the display. WDYT?
CC: (none) => tmb
Mageia 3 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status 4 months ago. http://blog.mageia.org/en/2014/11/26/lets-say-goodbye-to-mageia-3/ Mageia 3 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Mageia please feel free to click on "Version" change it against that version of Mageia and reopen this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. -- The Mageia Bugsquad
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => OLD
The nouveau code has changed quite a lot since. If it's still valid for mga4 or mga5 RC, we could add the following line for Geforce 2 MX in http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/ldetect-lst/tree/lst/Cards+: LINE Option "Composite" "disable"
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFOSource RPM: gnome-shell => ldetect-lst