Boot hang

Giorgio · May 13, 2020, 5:46am

openMandriva doesn’t boot.
After yesterday system update boot stop and I get an error message.
The last row of error message is something like:

acpi MSFT0101:00 platform device creation failed: -16

OpenMandriva Lx version: 4.1
Desktop environment (KDE, LXQT…): KDE

rugyada · May 13, 2020, 7:18am

There were no updates yesterday afaik.

Giorgio · May 13, 2020, 4:04pm

Yesterday I updated few packages, may be they are several days old. But almost sure that the problem appears just after update then probably the origin is in updated packages.

rugyada · May 13, 2020, 4:10pm

Then you know what to do: the list of latest packages updated.

Giorgio · May 13, 2020, 4:21pm

I know what I’d do. But boot hang then OMLx don’t start, how is possible to make this list?
If useful I remember that for one of these packages was possible to keep old settings (default) or change with new ones. May be the package is “sdd” ?

rugyada · May 13, 2020, 4:54pm

Is you system English or Italian locales ?

Giorgio · May 13, 2020, 5:33pm

Italian

rugyada · May 13, 2020, 5:43pm

Try:
At GRUB screen
Advanced Options for… > OpenMandriva Lx … (console mode)

At terminal prompt, login. Then type command

rpm -qa --last | grep mar\ 5\ mag

If you can get the terminal, you should be able to read there the few packages installed yesterday.

Giorgio · May 13, 2020, 7:37pm

Here’s yesterday updates:

oma-welcome-2.1.25-1.noarch                   mar 12 mag 2020, 23:08:06
microcode-intel-20200508-1.noarch             mar 12 mag 2020, 23:08:06
sddm-0.18.1-6.20200507.4.x86_64               mar 12 mag 2020, 23:08:05
rng-tools-6.10-2.x86_64                       mar 12 mag 2020, 23:08:05

ben79 · May 13, 2020, 8:34pm

Update: I have tested this and downgrading sddm works.

Try this: Log in to console mode again and:

$ sudo dnf downgrade sddm

reboot and see if that affects anything.

Post-edit: This package:

sddm-0.18.1-6.20200507.4.x86_64

is only in main/testing so I would suggest to disable testing repositories. (All of the packages in @Giorgio’s list are in main/testing repo.)

rugyada · May 13, 2020, 8:41pm

Please post output of:

$ sudo dnf clean all;dnf clean all;dnf repolist

Postedit:
oh, if it’s too hard to do (sorry) please at least write which repos it says are enabled.

Giorgio · May 14, 2020, 6:17am

Here’s what I get

id repo                         nome repo
rock-testing-x86_64             OpenMandriva Rock - x86_64 - Testing
rock-testing-x86_64-non-free    OpenMandriva Rock - Non-free - x86_64 - Testing
rock-testing-x86_64-restricted  OpenMandriva Rock - Restricted - x86_64 - Testing
rock-testing-x86_64-unsupported OpenMandriva Rock - Unsupported - x86_64 - Testing
rock-updates-x86_64             OpenMandriva Rock - x86_64 - Updates
rock-updates-x86_64-non-free    OpenMandriva Rock - Non-free - x86_64 - Updates
rock-updates-x86_64-restricted  OpenMandriva Rock - Restricted - x86_64 - Updates
rock-updates-x86_64-unsupported OpenMandriva Rock - Unsupported - x86_64 - Updates
rock-x86_64                     OpenMandriva Rock - x86_64
rock-x86_64-non-free            OpenMandriva Rock - Non-free - x86_64
rock-x86_64-restricted          OpenMandriva Rock - Restricted - x86_64
rock-x86_64-unsupported         OpenMandriva Rock - Unsupported - x86_64

Giorgio · May 14, 2020, 6:20am

This solved partially. Boot worked one time.
Then I set autologin and now it hang again. Not in the same way as before. Now it stops showing a window similar to konsole with white background. No menu.

rugyada · May 14, 2020, 10:25am

ok

Type there:

$ cat /etc/sddm.conf

at line 3, should be:

Session=plasma

at line 11, should be:

[Theme]
Current=breeze

if not, edit it.
$ sudo nano /etc/sddm.conf

.

Yep, it confirms my early suspect, it’s the reason why I asked
Common users should never enable /testing repos in stable release.
If ever/when there is the rare needing, just enable for current transaction and disable it immediately after.

Now, once you can get back to plasma desktop please run om-repo-picker utility and disable whatever except main.

run again the holy command
$ sudo dnf clean all ; dnf clean all ; dnf repolist

Hope this helps. Good luck.

Giorgio · May 14, 2020, 6:13pm

This is my sddm.conf after edit sddm.conf.txt (912 Byte) but unfortunately nothing change.

rugyada · May 14, 2020, 6:45pm

This is mine, from OMLx 4.1 machine
https://pastebin.com/XvqG17Sj

Giorgio · May 14, 2020, 7:26pm

Compared mine and your sddm.conf show few differences. I added few lines with no result.
I solved moving Session=plasma almost at the beginning:

[Autologin]
Relogin=false
Session=plasma

[General]
InputMethod=
Numlock=none

Now it seems that all works. Thanks.

rugyada · May 14, 2020, 7:29pm

Great!
Hope it keeps working.
Time to fix repos in om-repo-picker

Giorgio · May 14, 2020, 7:41pm

Just tried to set autologin but this setting isn’t saved. Anyway OMLx seems working.

id repo                                                         nome repo
rock-updates-x86_64                                             OpenMandriva Rock - x86_64 - Updates
rock-updates-x86_64-non-free                                    OpenMandriva Rock - Non-free - x86_64 - Updates
rock-updates-x86_64-restricted                                  OpenMandriva Rock - Restricted - x86_64 - Updates
rock-updates-x86_64-unsupported                                 OpenMandriva Rock - Unsupported - x86_64 - Updates
rock-x86_64                                                     OpenMandriva Rock - x86_64
rock-x86_64-non-free                                            OpenMandriva Rock - Non-free - x86_64
rock-x86_64-restricted                                          OpenMandriva Rock - Restricted - x86_64
rock-x86_64-unsupported                                         OpenMandriva Rock - Unsupported - x86_64

rugyada · May 14, 2020, 8:03pm

Your system was a bit messed so I’d suggest to let it as is now and use it for a while. Then to deal with one issue at time.