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On Wednesday, June 10, 2020 9:00:42 AM CEST Raffaele BELARDI wrote: |
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> From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> |
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> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 08:02 |
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> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] clone root from HDD to SSD causes no video with |
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> NVIDIA driver |
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> Raffaele BELARDI wrote: |
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> nomodeset did not change anything, but adding EFI_FB to the kernel finally |
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> got me a functional console. But if I startx from there I am back again to |
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> the same point, no X, no console switching with CTR-ALT-Fn, no crash in |
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> syslog, I have to SSH to get to a working shell. I'm not getting anywhere, |
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> 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 |
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> executed up to the 'mount-ro' (or similar) script, which fails with |
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> "Remounting / ro failed because we are using /" |
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> 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 |
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> unless you do something different. When I first stated using Gentoo, I |
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> didn't realize that one can restart a install pretty much anywhere in the |
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> install. Starting over doesn't get you anything different if you repeat |
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> the same steps. |
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> Since you can ssh into the machine, I'd grab log files and post them here. |
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> I'd look into sddm.log and Xorg.0.log. If you see other logs such as |
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> rc.log, I'd post them as well. Surely something in one of those will shed |
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> some light. It has to be easier than starting over and most likely having |
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> the same issue again. I used ls -al /var/log/ | grep log to see what all |
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> types of logs were there. You may have some I don't or use different tools |
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> that generate other logs. |
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> Here are some logs from the original config (the first one that was working |
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> on HDD but not on SSD), so before before I stopped X/added nomodeset/added |
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> FB_EFI. There is no DM log, it never gets to that point. |
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> Raffaele |
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I checked the logs and can't find anything obvious. |
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However: |
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1) My "xorg.conf" is empty |
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2) /etc/xorg.conf.d has 2 files: |
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"20opengl.conf" which contains: |
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Section "Files" |
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EndSection |
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and |
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"40-libinput.conf" which contains: |
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Section "InputClass" |
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Identifier "libinput pointer catchall" |
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MatchIsPointer "on" |
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MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" |
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Driver "libinput" |
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EndSection |
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Section "InputClass" |
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Identifier "libinput keyboard catchall" |
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MatchIsKeyboard "on" |
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MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" |
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Driver "libinput" |
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EndSection |
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Section "InputClass" |
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Identifier "libinput touchpad catchall" |
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MatchIsTouchpad "on" |
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MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" |
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Driver "libinput" |
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EndSection |
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Section "InputClass" |
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Identifier "libinput touchscreen catchall" |
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MatchIsTouchscreen "on" |
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MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" |
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Driver "libinput" |
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EndSection |
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Section "InputClass" |
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Identifier "libinput tablet catchall" |
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MatchIsTablet "on" |
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MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" |
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Driver "libinput" |
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EndSection |
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(I did not copy the comments from the 40... file. |
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Can you try starting X with an empty xorg.conf ? |
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I also miss a lot of output in the "Xorg.0.log" file. It looks like it doesn't |
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start properly. |
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Joost |