'Twas brillig, and Oliver Burger at 18/04/12 07:41 did gyre and gimble: > Am 18.04.2012 01:24, schrieb Anssi Hannula: >> 18.04.2012 01:27, Colin Guthrie kirjoitti: >>> 'Twas brillig, and Oliver Burger at 17/04/12 22:15 did gyre and gimble: >>>> Hi there, >>>> >>>> we have some kind of an ugly problem with ati cards on beta3 pre >>>> relase. >>>> After installing the dvd it just won't boot. >>> >>> Don't you mean "X does not start" rather than "it just won't boot"? Or >>> have I missed something fundamental here? >>> >>> I already somewhat wasted your time earlier because I got you to get all >>> sorts of interesting debug for me because I thought it was a boot/init >>> problem, but it turns out X is just failing to initialise the vesa >>> driver.... have I missed some details on this problem? >> >> I indeed thought that Oliver had said he had no /var/log/Xorg.0.log >> after first boot and thus it didn't even try to start X... But >> apparently that wasn't the case after all, so maybe I misunderstood (or >> misread). >> >> I've added a comment in the bugreport. >> > At first boot, X doesn't start at all, the system hangs before that.
OK, so this would be interesting to me. I guess I'll need the logs from that first boot to debug things. Some questions: 1. Ideally, if you can reproduce this, can you add the following to the kernel command line before first boot: "systemd.log_level=debug systemd.log_target=kmsg" (it will obviously require a reinstall. I suspect this could be related to https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4772 but as I've not been able to reproduce this on any of my VMs, I suspect it may need some real laptop h/w to reproduce which I don't have easy access to - I can switch disks in my laptop but it's not exactly easy :s) 2. Does the boot properly hang? What is the resolution? Does it just sit there forever and never timeout in a kind of deadlock? Can you get to tty2 to login? 3. Assuming you cannot login, do the reboot and grab the /var/log/dmesg.old file (as this will have the debug from the first boot). If you can login, then just grab the /var/log/dmesg file. Sorry I can't offer any more helpful advice until I can debug. But this could be two separate and maybe (possibly related) issues that are being debugged here: first boot hang and X config. It could be that the first boot hang cause harddrake to be unable to do what it was supposed to on first boot and thus left things in a less than ideal state for X setup? Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
