Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-11 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/04/13 21:56, Frank Griffin wrote: Wow. I was assuming all along that the problem stemmed from a massive upgrade from some MGA2 system. If you installed a 3rd April beta, had it working perfectly, and something uploaded to cauldron in the

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-10 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/04/13 20:48, Frank Griffin wrote: On 04/08/2013 02:41 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: No, it doesn't. When I ran XFdrake the test did display colours, though at a resolution I wouldn't want to work with :-) However, on reboot I still have a backlit

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-10 Thread Frank Griffin
On 04/10/2013 05:06 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: I went through the following steps again: 1) Boot the rescue system 2) drvinst 3) mount your root as /mnt 4) do a mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev 5) do a chroot /mnt 6) do a mount -t proc none /proc 7) do a mount -t sysfs none /sys 8) do XFdrake 9) choose

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-10 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Frank Griffin at 10/04/13 12:00 did gyre and gimble: Starting afresh, I followed the steps up to running XFdrake (but not running XFdrake yet). I tried 'ifup eth0' but 'Running in chroot. Ignoring request'. After exit this changed to Running in chroot. ignoring request.

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-10 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/04/13 12:00, Frank Griffin wrote: Starting afresh, I followed the steps up to running XFdrake (but not running XFdrake yet). I tried 'ifup eth0' but 'Running in chroot. Ignoring request'. After exit this changed to Running in chroot.

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-10 Thread Frank Griffin
On 04/10/2013 07:31 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: ifup: configuration for eth0 not found - I had already tried that. Interesting. I guess you didn't configure eth0 from the Install Summary. You can do it from the chroot (using Colin's suggestion) by running drakconnect. That's what I thought,

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-10 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/04/13 13:07, Frank Griffin wrote: On 04/10/2013 07:31 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: I think there may be some misunderstandings, so I'll try to correct them inline. Interesting. I guess you didn't configure eth0 from the Install Summary. I

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-10 Thread Frank Griffin
On 04/10/2013 02:21 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: Out of curiosity I tried the distro upgrade. It appeared to complete, but booted to a blank screen, so I didn't waste any more time on it. I started afresh and did a clean install (though keeping /home). Something occurred to me today that may or may

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-10 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/04/13 19:50, Frank Griffin wrote: On 04/10/2013 02:21 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: Out of curiosity I tried the distro upgrade. It appeared to complete, but booted to a blank screen, so I didn't waste any more time on it. I started afresh and did

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-10 Thread Frank Griffin
On 04/10/2013 03:32 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: I downloaded the latest beta - and checked the sha1sum before installing. It worked perfectly. I configured eth0 as dhcp, knowing that I'd have to get the wifi drivers later. I did the update immediately after the install - that would be the 3rd

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-09 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/04/13 22:49, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 08/04/13 22:43 did gyre and gimble: Colin Guthrie skrev 9.4.2013 00:31: 'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 08/04/13 13:20 did gyre and gimble: It's actually

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-09 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/04/13 00:55, David W. Hodgins wrote: On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:52:06 -0400, Anne Wilson an...@kde.org wrote: Rebooting, nothing has changed. I get grub, lots of disk activity led flickering, but no output to the screen, with or without Esc.

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-09 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/04/13 20:48, Frank Griffin wrote: On 04/08/2013 02:41 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: No, it doesn't. When I ran XFdrake the test did display colours, though at a resolution I wouldn't want to work with :-) However, on reboot I still have a backlit

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-08 Thread Frank Griffin
On 04/07/2013 11:25 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: Sorry to be a pain, Frank, but I've never been able to understand the Rescue mode. Everything I've tried fails. How exactly do you mount your root partition? I went to Console, but every command I tried failed. I then tried the mount under /mnt and

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-08 Thread Thomas Backlund
Frank Griffin skrev 4.4.2013 19:12: On 04/04/2013 10:59 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: Not much progress. My usual method of editing the kernel line to get a level 3 boot doesn't work - same blank (but lit) screen. Failsafe appears to be doing better - at least I can see messages. It reaches

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-08 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/04/13 13:12, Frank Griffin wrote: Or, you can boot the classic install ISO, and one of the GUI choices should be Rescue. Once you get the Rescue panel, select Go to Console. Then type drvinst, since rescue tends to lag modern hardware,

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-08 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/04/13 13:20, Thomas Backlund wrote: Frank Griffin skrev 4.4.2013 19:12: On 04/04/2013 10:59 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: Not much progress. My usual method of editing the kernel line to get a level 3 boot doesn't work - same blank (but lit)

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-08 Thread Frank Griffin
On 04/08/2013 11:03 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: modprobe: FATAL: Module shpchp not found modprobe: FATAL: Module snd_hda_intel not found How do I get these? I'm not sure why a rescue system would need either of them. I guesss you get these messages from drvinst; I get some sililar ones myself

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-08 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/04/13 16:37, Frank Griffin wrote: On 04/08/2013 11:03 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: modprobe: FATAL: Module shpchp not found modprobe: FATAL: Module snd_hda_intel not found How do I get these? I'm not sure why a rescue system would need either

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-08 Thread Frank Griffin
On 04/08/2013 12:13 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: OK, moving on. Listing /mnt/etc/systemd/system/ I have no default.target link, so I assume I have to make one. Is that ln -s /lib/systemd/system/runlevel3.target /mnt/etc/systemd/system/default.target ? Actually, you probably want to first chroot

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-08 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/04/13 17:22, Frank Griffin wrote: On 04/08/2013 12:13 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: OK, moving on. Listing /mnt/etc/systemd/system/ I have no default.target link, so I assume I have to make one. Is that ln -s

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-08 Thread Frank Griffin
On 04/08/2013 12:52 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: Something very odd is happening, indeed. Remember this was a functioning system before I did the updates. Rebooting, nothing has changed. I get grub, lots of disk activity led flickering, but no output to the screen, with or without Esc. I can boot

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-08 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/04/13 18:28, Frank Griffin wrote: On 04/08/2013 12:52 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: Something very odd is happening, indeed. Remember this was a functioning system before I did the updates. Rebooting, nothing has changed. I get grub, lots of

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-08 Thread Frank Griffin
On 04/08/2013 02:41 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: No, it doesn't. When I ran XFdrake the test did display colours, though at a resolution I wouldn't want to work with :-) However, on reboot I still have a backlit black screen. I'm sure you are on the right track. It's not radeon, though, it's Intel

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-08 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 08/04/13 13:20 did gyre and gimble: Frank Griffin skrev 4.4.2013 19:12: On 04/04/2013 10:59 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: Not much progress. My usual method of editing the kernel line to get a level 3 boot doesn't work - same blank (but lit) screen. Failsafe

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-08 Thread Thomas Backlund
Colin Guthrie skrev 9.4.2013 00:31: 'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 08/04/13 13:20 did gyre and gimble: It's actually easier than that. Add systemd.unit=multi-user.target on kernel / grub command line and ith will boot to runlevel 3 Or simply add a 3 onto the command line as has

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-08 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 08/04/13 22:43 did gyre and gimble: Colin Guthrie skrev 9.4.2013 00:31: 'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 08/04/13 13:20 did gyre and gimble: It's actually easier than that. Add systemd.unit=multi-user.target on kernel / grub command line and ith

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-08 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:52:06 -0400, Anne Wilson an...@kde.org wrote: Rebooting, nothing has changed. I get grub, lots of disk activity led flickering, but no output to the screen, with or without Esc. I can boot into Safe moade, which lands me in Rescue Mode - but I haven't a clue what to do

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-08 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:43:38 -0400, Thomas Backlund t...@mageia.org wrote: Colin Guthrie skrev 9.4.2013 00:31: 'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 08/04/13 13:20 did gyre and gimble: It's actually easier than that. Add systemd.unit=multi-user.target on kernel / grub command line and ith

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-07 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/13 17:12, Frank Griffin wrote: On 04/04/2013 10:59 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: Not much progress. My usual method of editing the kernel line to get a level 3 boot doesn't work - same blank (but lit) screen. Failsafe appears to be doing better

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-07 Thread Frank Griffin
On 04/07/2013 09:25 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: On rebooting there was a good deal of disk activity light flickering, but a completely black screen. Follow the instructions to boot into level 3, and then try XFdrake from a root console to see how your video is configured. If everything else seems

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-07 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/04/13 14:48, Frank Griffin wrote: On 04/07/2013 09:25 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: On rebooting there was a good deal of disk activity light flickering, but a completely black screen. Follow the instructions to boot into level 3, and then try

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-04 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/04/13 17:50, Anne Wilson wrote: This is an Acer Aspire One 533, with Intel N550 chipset, everything on-board. I wasn't doing anything unusual, so there does seem to be a real problem. Tomorrow I'll try to get a console login - is there

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-04 Thread Frank Griffin
On 04/04/2013 10:59 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: Not much progress. My usual method of editing the kernel line to get a level 3 boot doesn't work - same blank (but lit) screen. Failsafe appears to be doing better - at least I can see messages. It reaches Reached target Multi-User Reached target

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-03 Thread Sandro CAZZANIGA
Le 03/04/2013 15:36, Anne Wilson a écrit : I've just come across a bug in the software installer - where should it be reported? Anne ON QA list, which I attached in cc, and on bugs.mageia.org :) -- Sandro Cazzaniga Jabber: kha...@jabber.fr Twitter: @Kharec signature.asc Description:

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-03 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/04/13 14:37, Sandro CAZZANIGA wrote: Le 03/04/2013 15:36, Anne Wilson a écrit : I've just come across a bug in the software installer - where should it be reported? Anne ON QA list, which I attached in cc, and on bugs.mageia.org :)

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-03 Thread Sandro CAZZANIGA
Le 03/04/2013 15:46, Anne Wilson a écrit : On 03/04/13 14:37, Sandro CAZZANIGA wrote: Le 03/04/2013 15:36, Anne Wilson a écrit : I've just come across a bug in the software installer - where should it be reported? Anne ON QA list, which I attached in cc, and on bugs.mageia.org :)

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-03 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/04/13 14:48, Sandro CAZZANIGA wrote: Le 03/04/2013 15:46, Anne Wilson a écrit : On 03/04/13 14:37, Sandro CAZZANIGA wrote: Le 03/04/2013 15:36, Anne Wilson a écrit : I've just come across a bug in the software installer - where should it be