MGA3 Upg/Install System problems

[Myles]

I hope that this is the correct place to post these problems (I have some other posts). 2 weeks ago I upgraded Mageia #2 to #3 by clicking on the indicative icon in the TaskBar. Here is what has been happening so far.
Upgraded to Mageia #3

Upgrade went smootly. First night – and every night after (overnight) - I had a major system failure (I hope you can see the photo of screen with white text in the link following) - http://s1099.photobucket.com/user/Myles5712/media/Mageia%203%20Problems/Failurescreen-Mageia3upgrade-2_zpsbc04254f.jpg.html. At first I thought it was Lucky Backup barfing on some files I had copied from a Windows system - it complained about non – unicode characters; or wide characters or some rubbish. I stopped Lucky Backup automatic backup and still it happened. I went into syslog (root/var/log/syslog) and couldn’t see anything about why my system died. This happened 6 nights in a row. I would be using my PC early in the evening, then watch TV (on a TV not the PC). I heard Lucky Backup start at 11pm and complete. Then when I come into my study in the morning, I cannot wake up my PC, or I am greeted with the screen full of white text (as shown in the image above).

So, I decided to do a complete install of Mageia 3. That went well – well the install part went well not anything else! I have had the same problems since re-installing! And, when my system has failed, I re-boot, logon and go to where “syslog” used to be (root/var/log/syslog) and it isn’t there! Neither are a lot of logs that used to to be there in Mageia # 2, so I don’t know why my system has failed!

So, I stopped the screen lock to see if I could see if the same white text screen was evident on failure when I go into my study in the morning – unfortunately, my monitor screen goes to sleep and then I can hear my PC is alive but I can’t wake it up – my monitor says “No Signal detected”.

Something else that has happened, 3 or more times I have clicked on an active task icon in the Task bar and BOOM, no system and the screen full of white text!

A couple of nights ago I left a TV show part-watched, paused in VLC - System stayed alive all night and my monitor screen didn’t sleep! So I thought that was interesting.

Well it happened again last night I did the same as above. I left a part-watched movie paused in VLC, switched off the monitor and went out for a few hours. When I returned I switched on the monitor only to be greeted with the WTSOD – The White Text Screen Of Death!

So now I have no idea what is wrong or how to go about fixing it.
Any help/assistance would be greatly appreciated.

[Myles]

This happened again overnight. I came into my study this morning only to be greeted with the WTSOD – The White Text Screen Of Death! I had set the screen lock settings back to lock the screen and to turn the monitor off after 10mins.

These are the last entries in journalctl prior to me re-booting this morning.

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Jun 11 02:48:24 Bilbo.Hobbiton sensord[759]: Chip: acpitz-virtual-0
Jun 11 02:48:24 Bilbo.Hobbiton sensord[759]: Adapter: Virtual device
Jun 11 02:48:24 Bilbo.Hobbiton sensord[759]: temp1: 21.8 C
Jun 11 02:48:45 Bilbo.Hobbiton udisksd[3337]: Error performing housekeeping for drive /org/freedesktop/UDisk
-- Reboot --


Any ideas anyone?
This is really annoying.

[Myles]

This happened again overnight (yesterday). I came into my study yesterday morning only to be greeted with the WTSOD – The White Text Screen Of Death! I had left a TV show paused in VLC.

But this time things are more weird! I re-booted, logged on, got the splash screen and the dots were appearing as part of the logo - as soon as the 5th dot appeared my screen went completely black! I could hear the system continue to load and heard the system music but the screen remained black. I re-booted specifying "init 3", logged in as root, started drakconf and changed the video driver from nVidia to nouveau, saved and re-booted. Logged in - same result, black screen! I tried this several times all to no avail. In the end I specified vesa and was able to logon successfully to my system. Went into MCC, changed the video driver from nVidia to nouveau, saved and re-booted. Logged in - same result, black screen! I tried this several times all to no avail. It seems no matter what I do now I cannot get the nouveau driver to stick!

So on top of yet another major system failure I have this.

This is driving me nuts!

[Myles]

I'm not sure if this is relevant or not, but the last 2 nights - with the vesa driver active - my system has stayed alive like it used to under Mageia #2. I still cannot get the nouveau driver to stick as the driver I want loaded.

Isn't there anyone who can help me try and sort this out?