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Hi, all, I have the following issue I'm trying to resolve. |
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I have a stable amd64 Gentoo system running on a Core i5-650 with an Nvidia |
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GT710 in my home theater PC. It's connected to my home theater receiver via |
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HDMI and thence to my 4K TV. |
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The problem I'm seeing is that after the boot starts, the boot messages |
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scroll up until "Setting system clock using the hardware clock [UTC]" shows |
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and then the screen goes black. However, the boot continues until Kodi |
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starts up and the screen shows the Kodi UI. But the screen is blank for |
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20-30 seconds during the second half of the boot process. |
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If I look at rc.log I see the following around the time the video goes |
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black: |
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* Loading module coretemp ... |
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[ ok ] |
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* Loading module w83627ehf ... |
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[ ok ] |
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* Loading kernel modules ... |
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insmod |
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/lib/modules/4.19.97-gentoo-x86_64/kernel/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.ko |
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[ ok ] |
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* Setting system clock using the hardware clock [UTC] ... |
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[ ok ] |
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* The binfmt-misc module needs to be loaded by the modules service or |
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built in. |
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* Mounting misc binary format filesystem ... |
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[ ok ] |
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* Loading custom binary format handlers ... |
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[ ok ] |
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which matches the messages I see before the black screen. |
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So this isn't a huge issue _unless_ there's a boot issue. It came to the |
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fore this weekend when a bad MySQL upgrade caused the boot to hang and I |
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had a lot of trouble figuring out what the problem was due to the lack of |
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video. Nothing I did on the keyboard allowed me to see what was going on, |
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and because MySQL was being started before sshd I couldn't even log in |
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remotely. It took booting into a LiveCD and looking at the boot logs to |
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figure out what was going on. |
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Any ideas? I'm using the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers 440.59 but this has |
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been happening for a long time with earlier versions as well. |
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-- |
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Manuel A. McLure WW1FA <manuel@××××××.org> <http://www.mclure.org> |
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...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, |
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