[Mageia-dev] Fwd: Re: M3 won't complete boot after update

Thu Sep 27 15:37:30 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 27/09/12 13:40 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 27/09/12 13:31, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+>> I presume you have the x11-driver-video-intel package installed?
+> 
+> Would you believe it? It wasn't installed.  After the big update I did
+> the automatic removal of orphans - I wonder if it got caught up in
+> that, somehow.
+
+Ahh a nice simple answer in the end!
+
+I probably should have been more persistant in asking this question
+initially (I think I did mention it in an earlier mail, but also asked a
+whole bunch of other stuff in a "get all the debug possible all at once"
+fit of pseudo efficiency! Kinda backfired a bit!
+
+
+> So - I now have M3 working - with the display problem that I already
+> knew about, but that's definitely KDE related, as a second user
+> doesn't see it, so now I can work on that.
+> 
+> The only remaining question is "how did a working system end up
+> without a display driver?"
+
+Well, it's perhaps this scenario:
+
+x11-driver-video was installed initially and it pulled in lots of
+individual display drivers, including intel.
+
+Due to an xorg update, one of the drivers that is required by
+x11-driver-video had to be removed (due to no longer being supported)
+which resulted in x11-driver-video also being removed, thus orphaning
+all the drivers it initially pulled in, including the intel one.
+
+It's quite easy to happen really, this is one of the many reasons I
+never, use the --auto-orphans feature. I use urpmq --not-available to do
+my tidy ups.
+
+Col
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
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+http://colin.guthr.ie/
+
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