595674 – LiveCD: Black screen after install

Bug 595674 - LiveCD: Black screen after install

Summary: LiveCD: Black screen after install

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 585432
Duplicates (1):	595660 (view as bug list)

Alias:	None

Product:	openSUSE 11.3
Classification:	openSUSE
Component:	Live Medium (show other bugs)
Version:	Factory
Hardware:	Other Other

Priority:	P5 - None Severity: Major (vote)
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Assignee:	Stephan Kulow
QA Contact:	E-mail List

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Reported:	2010-04-12 09:46 UTC by Andreas Jaeger
Modified:	2010-04-12 12:32 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description Andreas Jaeger 2010-04-12 09:46:12 UTC

If I install from the LiveCD in KVM (via LiveImage), the installation is successfull and then I get asked to reboot.

After the reboot I have a completely blank screen - the X server is running but not doing anything usefull at all.

Switching to the text console and kill X, I see on console 1: "Starting YaST".  Seems that the system didn't get informed that X was running and therefore did not run YaST at all...

Now I can finish the installation using YaST ncurses...

y2start.log only said "Can't start X server"

See also: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2010-04/msg00153.html

Comment 1 Rastislav Krupansky 2010-04-12 10:05:24 UTC

*** Bug 595660 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Rastislav Krupansky 2010-04-12 10:09:08 UTC

I can confirm the issue in VMware. Reproducible with KDE liveCD build 0553.
Installation is finshed with a black screen directly from openSUSE installer also.

Comment 3 Robin Knapp 2010-04-12 11:24:56 UTC

Seems to hang in function wait_for_x11

endless loop with a check inside:
while ...; do
  if test -e /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 && test -x $TESTX; then
    ...
    continue
    ...
  fi
done

$TESTX is /usr/sbin/testX, but it does not exist on my system, so it never leaves this loop

Looking at openSUSE 11.2, I found that /usr/sbin/testX is part of sax2-tools.

So a "zypper in sax2-tools" on a console helps - installation will continue.

Either this is missing in the live cd or the YaST2.call script should be adapted.

Comment 4 Stefan Dirsch 2010-04-12 12:24:18 UTC

Arvin, could you please close as duplicate of your already existing bug?

Comment 5 Arvin Schnell 2010-04-12 12:32:17 UTC

See bug #585432.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 585432 ***