[Bug 664308] New: Fail safe mode does boot to console mode - not vga gui login
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=664308 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=664308#c0 Summary: Fail safe mode does boot to console mode - not vga gui login Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.4 Version: Milestone 5 of 6 Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Bootloader AssignedTo: jsrain@novell.com ReportedBy: terje@nordland-teknikk.no QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b7) Gecko/20101105 Firefox/4.0b7 Tested on both AMD and Intel/Nvidia hardware, GDM and KDM4 Display manager. Selecting Fail safe mode on the Grub menu, boot to console text mode only, not to the normal vga gui mode (as i.e in 11.3). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. as above 2. 3. Actual Results: as above Expected Results: boot default fail safe to vga gui login. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Hmm, Xorg log looks fine...so if it boot to console can you start there X? or does it fail?
Just a thought; In case Failsafe mode doesn't try start gui mode at all, possibly this Xorg.0.log may be from the last Desktop startup (?) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Hmm, Xorg log looks fine...so if it boot to console can you start there X? or does it fail?
Just a thought; In case Failsafe mode doesn't try start gui mode at all, possibly this Xorg.0.log may be from the last Desktop startup (?)
But if you can start it manually then problem is not in failed xdm init, so I must check if there is not any condition for failsafe. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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x11failsafe boot option let X use /etc/X11/xorg.conf.install from installation (see /etc/init.d/xdm), which should work. Otherwise graphical installation wouldn't have worked.
So it means that there must be such file? I think that we now don't create it automatic, do we? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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x11failsafe boot option let X use /etc/X11/xorg.conf.install from installation (see /etc/init.d/xdm), which should work. Otherwise graphical installation wouldn't have worked.
So it means that there must be such file? I think that we now don't create it automatic, do we?
Yes. We did create it in the past. We no longer do? Sorry, I didn't test any 11.4 installation. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Created an attachment (id=409138) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=409138) [details] xorg.conf.install for hp8710w
This looks same as my config on VirtualBox...do you run on real hardware or use also some virtualization tool? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Created an attachment (id=409138) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=409138) [details] [details] xorg.conf.install for hp8710w
This looks same as my config on VirtualBox...do you run on real hardware or use also some virtualization tool?
Native, real hardware on both machines, see also #8 (hp8710)and #5 (Asus) above. I have however also Xen installed and it is an option on the menu.lst. I'll attach the complete menu.lst (hp8710) which also contains multiboot sections for 11.4, 11.3 and Windows. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Thanks. That's an xorg.conf.install as it should look like.
And it just boot Failsafe to console mode (Asus). Also in this case the menu.lst contains dualboot sections for 11.4 and 11.3 Tumbleweed; the latter works flawless. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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You should grep for gdm not xdm: you log with ereased environment informations
Ok, i wasn't sure about that as xdm was mentioned. However, I won't be on this machine for about 8-10 hours later this evening. But the complete boot.msg files are already attached. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Hmmm ... should work as there is no device mounted twice the time. Please disable earlyxdm, that is no next boot only xdm boot script should start gdm only once.
You have to tell me in more details how to disable earlyxdm (?) Yesterday I upgraded to 11.4 Milestone 6 using 'zypper dup' on this hp8710w Intel based machine. On my other machine Asus/AMD (commented i.e in #4 and #5 previously) I made a fresh new installation from NET iso. On both machines this issue still occures randomly, sometimes Failsafe boot to GDM login (maybe more often just the first time after startup), and some times Failsafe boot stops with a console login. Logging in as root in the latter case: # rcxdm stop Shutting down service gdm # rcxdm start Starting service gdm Using failsafe X.org.configuration /etc/X11/xorg.conf.install ***(gdm:1270): Warning***: Couldn't connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_system_bus_socket: Connection refused -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Hmmm ... should work as there is no device mounted twice the time. Please disable earlyxdm, that is no next boot only xdm boot script should start gdm only once.
You have to tell me in more details how to disable earlyxdm (?)
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The first comments indicated that this was an issue with kdm. Is it still the case?
During installation I normally select Gnome as my default desktop, and then add the software pattern for KDE during the installation or later with YaST, to have both desktops and applications available. Therefore I normally also use GDM as the default display manager. Due to the Failsafe boot issue to console login, I also did test to change the display manager to kdm4 (using YaST). I've now repeated this kdm4 test with Milestone 6, and have been able to reproduce the Failsafe boot to console login. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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