[Mageia-dev] Graphical Boot stalled in current cauldron

Tue Nov 6 14:49:20 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Frank Griffin at 06/11/12 12:28 did gyre and gimble:
+> This actually started with the last systemd drop, but it's still
+> happening with today's systemd drop.
+> 
+> The boot proceeds and then stalls on tty1 with:
+> 
+> [^[[1;32m  OK  ^[[0m] Started LSB: ProFTPD FTP server.
+> [^[[1;32m  OK  ^[[0m] Started LSB: Starts the postfix daemons.
+> [^[[1;32m  OK  ^[[0m] Started LSB: Video Disk Recorder.
+> [^[[1;31mFAILED^[[0m] Failed to start Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to
+> Quit.
+> See 'systemctl status plymouth-quit-wait.service' for details.
+> [^[[1;32m  OK  ^[[0m] Reached target Multi-User.
+> [^[[1;32m  OK  ^[[0m] Reached target Graphical Interface.
+> 
+> The DM (GDM) does not start.  
+
+
+> However, if you ALT-F2 to tty2, getty
+> comes up, and if you do "service dm start", the DM starts, oddly enough,
+> on tty1.
+
+That's not odd. gdm is meant to always come up on tty1.
+
+> So, apparently, GDM can clear tty1 and start normally if it actually
+> gets control, but whatever systemd is doing to start the DM either isn't
+> getting done or is failing prematurely.
+
+Can you check what "systemctl status prefdm.service" says immediately
+after booting?
+
+Cheers
+
+Col
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
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