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

Wed Apr 10 20:50:31 CEST 2013

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 not be relevant.  This
+> problem with the Intel drivers being removed may not be a very new
+> problem.  I was running Cauldron successfully on this netbook for a
+> long time, up to early January.  Then I went away for three weeks.
+> When I returned near the end of January I switched on and did a big
+> update.  After that I had a black screen, much like the current one.
+>
+> I thought it might be because something important had happened while I
+> was away so that I had not made a necessary change at the right time,
+> so I waited for the opportunity to do this install.  It may be, then,
+> that this was my first experience of this same bug.
+...
+> As I said earlier, it was a clean install, not an upgrade, and it
+> completed perfectly.  I then rebooted as usual, and immediately used
+> MCC to add all other media sources, and did the big update.  This is
+> when it went pear-shaped.
+>
+OK, so what did you do the clean install from ?  From this last bit, it 
+sounds like it was working after the install if you could boot and use 
+MCC to add other media.  I'm curious as to the timeframe window of what 
+you installed and what you updated to.
+