Bug 753 - black screen after installation
Summary: black screen after installation
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Release (media or process) (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: i586 Linux
Priority: Normal critical
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mageia Bug Squad
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Reported: 2011-04-10 04:52 CEST by Peter D
Modified: 2011-05-10 19:49 CEST (History)
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xorg error log (9.54 KB, text/plain)
2011-04-10 05:33 CEST, Peter D 		Details
xorg config file (1.36 KB, text/plain)
2011-04-10 05:35 CEST, Peter D 		Details
dmesg file (44.54 KB, text/plain)
2011-04-10 05:37 CEST, Peter D 		Details
Xorg.0.log with nVidia driver after updates (8.25 KB, text/plain)
2011-04-13 03:19 CEST, Peter D 		Details
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Description Peter D 2011-04-10 04:52:24 CEST 
Description of problem:

Installation proceeds normally, then on first boot there is a black screen.  There is a cursor in the top left corner.  NumLock and CapsLock cause the keyboard LED to change.  Control-Alt-[1-12] key combinations do not do anything.  Ctl-Alt-BackSpace does nothing.  Ctl-Alt-Delete causes a reboot.

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

Mageia Beta one i586 DVD

How reproducible:

One machine works.  The other machine failed twice out of two attempts.  (The hardware works with Mandriva 2010.2)  It failed both with a boot DVD and the iso on the hard drive and it failed after installing directly from the DVD.  

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Install
2.  Boot


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 Peter D 2011-04-10 05:27:52 CEST 
There are errors in Xorg.0.log (no devices detected) and dmesg, but they seem to refer to partitions not in use (then test installation is entirely on partition 10).  I will attach those two files.  


[root@live log]# lspci -s 1:00.0 -n
01:00.0 0300: 10de:0a65 (rev a2)
[root@live log]# lspci -s 1:00.0
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT200 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)
Comment 2 Peter D 2011-04-10 05:33:54 CEST 
Created attachment 219 [details]
xorg error log
Comment 3 Peter D 2011-04-10 05:35:40 CEST 
Created attachment 220 [details]
xorg config file
Comment 4 Peter D 2011-04-10 05:37:02 CEST 
Created attachment 221 [details]
dmesg file
Comment 5 Peter D 2011-04-13 02:04:53 CEST 
The errors in dmesg (audit: name_count maxed, losing inode data: dev=00:05, inode=6409) have not re-occurred.  

Also only got the login prompt rather than the graphical display with the nvidia-current driver.  And still failed after updating kernel and driver (and everything else).
Comment 6 Peter D 2011-04-13 03:19:07 CEST 
Created attachment 233 [details]
Xorg.0.log with nVidia driver after updates
Comment 7 Peter D 2011-04-21 07:49:35 CEST 
I suspect that this is a manifestation of bug #904, but I will have to do another fresh install to find out - and this is my main machine that I use for other things.  It might take a few days, but I will try to find out if the nouveau driver is subject to the same bug (and fix) as the nVidia driver.
Comment 8 D Morgan 2011-05-01 22:51:20 CEST 
can you test with mageia 1 Beta2 please ?

CC: (none) => dmorganec

Comment 9 Peter D 2011-05-10 10:27:49 CEST 
Sorry for the delay.  

Beta 2 booted into a graphical display.  :-)  And it still worked after installing the closed source driver.
Comment 10 Ahmad Samir 2011-05-10 19:49:21 CEST 
Thanks for the feedback.

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