[Mageia-dev] Graphical Boot stalled in current cauldron

[Colin Guthrie]

'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

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