On Wednesday, June 10, 2020 9:00:42 AM CEST Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
> From: Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 08:02
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] clone root from HDD to SSD causes no video with
> NVIDIA driver
> Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
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> nomodeset did not change anything, but adding EFI_FB to the kernel finally
> got me a functional console. But if I startx from there I am back again to
> the same point, no X, no console switching with CTR-ALT-Fn, no crash in
> syslog, I have to SSH to get to a working shell. I'm not getting anywhere,
> I think I'll better install from stage3.
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>
> Just one more info, when issue 'halt' from the SSH OpenRC scripts are
> executed up to the 'mount-ro' (or similar) script, which fails with
> "Remounting / ro failed because we are using /"
>
> And the process hangs there, I need to hit the power switch to power off.
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> Thanks to all who contributed,
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> raffaele
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> Odds are, if you start from stage3, you will get the same problem again
> unless you do something different. When I first stated using Gentoo, I
> didn't realize that one can restart a install pretty much anywhere in the
> install. Starting over doesn't get you anything different if you repeat
> the same steps.
> Since you can ssh into the machine, I'd grab log files and post them here.
> I'd look into sddm.log and Xorg.0.log. If you see other logs such as
> rc.log, I'd post them as well. Surely something in one of those will shed
> some light. It has to be easier than starting over and most likely having
> the same issue again. I used ls -al /var/log/ | grep log to see what all
> types of logs were there. You may have some I don't or use different tools
> that generate other logs.
> Here are some logs from the original config (the first one that was working
> on HDD but not on SSD), so before before I stopped X/added nomodeset/added
> FB_EFI. There is no DM log, it never gets to that point.
> Raffaele
>
I checked the logs and can't find anything obvious.
However:
1) My "xorg.conf" is empty
2) /etc/xorg.conf.d has 2 files:
"20opengl.conf" which contains:
==
Section "Files"
EndSection
==
and
"40-libinput.conf" which contains:
==
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "libinput pointer catchall"
MatchIsPointer "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "libinput"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "libinput keyboard catchall"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "libinput"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "libinput touchpad catchall"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "libinput"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "libinput touchscreen catchall"
MatchIsTouchscreen "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "libinput"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "libinput tablet catchall"
MatchIsTablet "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "libinput"
EndSection
==
(I did not copy the comments from the 40... file.
Can you try starting X with an empty xorg.conf ?
I also miss a lot of output in the "Xorg.0.log" file. It looks like it doesn't
start properly.
--
Joost
