[OM Cooker] Reported black screens in Lx3.01

Ben Bullard benbullard79 at cox.net
Wed Dec 28 18:33:02 EST 2016


I've done many installs (on my desktop) during testing phase and never 
once saw this myself. But it must happen on some systems for some 
reason. Or is this is this in VBox? I have installed there twice also 
without incident.

Ben Bullard
ben79
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OpenMandriva-QA Team

On 12/27/2016 05:56 PM, Colin Close wrote:
> Hi All,
> As you know there were some reported black screens during testing of Lx3.01.
> Before release I did several test installs but could not reproduce however for the people it happens to it seems to be repeatable.
> The latest workaround reported by rugyada is:-
> When you get the black screen at reboot just after install, switch to VT (ctrl+alt+F2)
>
>      login as my user. Then:
>      more /etc/sddm.conf
>      read the lines:
>
>      [Autologin]
>      ...
>      ...
>      User=live
>
> :worried:
>
>      login as root, then run mc by:
>
>      #mc
>
>      go to: /etc/sddm.conf
>
>      Edit
>
>      replace "live" by your user name
>
>      Save
>
>      Quit
>
>      #reboot
>
> The workaround would seem to indicate that Calamares is not setting values is sddm.conf reliably
> Any suggestions for debug methods?
> Best,
> Colin
>
>
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