Mageia *6* ?marchugo wrote:Hi,
This morning I upgraded my 64 bit PC with Nvidia Geforce 6200 video card, to kernel 4.14.30 via the updater icon.
At that point, if you press Ctrl-Alt-F2, do you get to a prompt?After restarting the login screen appears, then after filling in my username and pw the system comes to a halt, leaving me with a black screen.
urpmi --auto-up
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Good. That way you see more log messages.Further I removed silent splash from the boot line.
So something is really wrong with graphics.kernel 4.14.25. This too results in a black screen directly after the login screen.
Booting into IceWm also did not help.
marchugo wrote:Of course the problem with black screen of the normal user remains unsolved. Maybe the account of the normal user is damaged somewhere? Any idea how to find the cause of the black screen? Where do I start to look?
journalctl -af | tee /tmp/journal.log
marchugo wrote:BTW: is there a trick to copy the account of my normal user to a new user, so that I can keep all my stuff in the account? Or will copying the account just copy the problem of the black screen to the new user?
morgano wrote:One idea - i did similar to this a few years back:
If space is enough make a full copy (i.e using cp- a) if your /home/youruser to /home/youruser-backup
/!\ - do that while not logged in as that user!
wintpe wrote:mine ended up being a library conflict that is effecting sddm, and i cant fix it, so rebuild.
You could switch to any tty (by pressing e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F2) when you are at the display manager / login screen, then login as root, and run
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journalctl -af | tee /tmp/journal.log
Then switch back to your graphical session, and login as your regular user. Wait half a minute or so to be safe nothing happens. Then reboot, and attach /tmp/journal.log here, and also the /home/username/.xsession-errors
and mention the time at which you tried to login so it can be correlated with the logfiles.
marchugo wrote:BTW, I can't find a file called /home/username/.xsession-errors. Maybe I should look for a different name?
ls -al ~/.xsession-errors
marchugo wrote:If I ask locate .bashrc, the answer is: /etc/skel/.bashrc
$ ls -al ~/.xsession-errors
ls: cannot access ‘home/marc/.xsession-errors’: No such file or directory
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