[SOLVED] Mageia 3 won't start after todays' updates - HELP

[paulcbrennan2001]

I downloaded and tried to install todays' updates but got a load of messages regarding certain updates (several) that required other items. As I am only a user and not technical I didn't know what to so I left it and quit out. I rebooted later and the normal 'Boot Mageia 3' screen came up then the hard drive kept going but my monitor went blank saying 'No signal Input'. Next tried Safe Mode - same result. What's happened !!! HELP.

[jkerr82508]

Have you tried booting to the previous kernel, 3.8.13.4? If you can, then execute as root

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urpmi --auto-update

You may have tried to update before your mirror was fully sync'd.

Jim

EDIT: If you have a 64 bit system, before running that command, check if you have a 32 bit kernel installed. If so, remove it. There is a report that the update process tried to install the 32 bit kernel on a 64 bit system, presumably because the 64 bit kernel had not yet reached the mirrors.
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12032

[paulcbrennan2001]

I decided to re-install. All now working thanks. I won't rush updating in future. What a pain!

[doktor5000]

Actually got this problem too - there was an nvidia driver update, and it installed the binary kernel modules nvidia-current-kernel.
Weird thing is that I've also got nvidia-current-kernel-3.10.24-desktop-2.mga3-319.60-8.mga3.nonfree.x86_64 installed even when I don't have that kernel installed at all.could be due to nvidia-current-kernel-desktop-latest-319.17

But even after removing that one, turned out X server didn't want to start. So removed all nvidia-current-kernel packages, and just kep the dkms one, as I know that works.

[paulcbrennan2001]

I suspected it was something to do with nvidia and X but I am not technical so hadn't a clue how to sort it. Fortunately re-installation seems to have solved the problem.

[flink]

Thanks. I had the same trouble after the latest update of Mageia3 x86_64.
GNOME could not start any more.
After login into the GNOME user I only got an error dialog:

Oh mince!
Quelque chose s'est mal passé. Un problème est survenu et le système ne peut pas se récuperer. Déconnectez-vous et essayez à nouveau.

I could login only with the guest user. I had no chance to login with my user into the GNOME desktop.

[marja]

This problem might exist for more nonfree graphic drivers than just for nvidia.

On IRC geokara just reported a similar problem after the same Mageia 3 kernel updates, but he used the ati radeon proprietary fglrx driver

[marja]

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12108