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    From Grimble@2:250/1 to All on Mon Nov 18 17:37:05 2019
    Set off an upgrade on my laptop Mageia 6 -> 7. Rebooting gives me:
    VGACON disables amdgpu kernel modesetting.
    Googling showed one or two possible solutions but suggestions didn't
    work. Any suggestions?
    TIA
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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/1 to All on Mon Nov 18 22:34:10 2019
    On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 12:37:05 -0500, Grimble <grimble@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

    Set off an upgrade on my laptop Mageia 6 -> 7. Rebooting gives me:
    VGACON disables amdgpu kernel modesetting.
    Googling showed one or two possible solutions but suggestions didn't
    work. Any suggestions?

    How did you do the upgrade? Are you sure it finished?
    Please confirm "urpmq --list-url" shows distrib/7, and urpmi-auto-update shows packages are up-to-date.

    What's the contents of /proc/cmdline, and which video card/driver is being used?

    Btw, we haven't enabled the upgrade option via mgaapplet due to bug https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25072
    which we are still discussing whether or not we can get it fixed, or if we should advise users to use a clean install of Mageia 7. Advanced users can still upgrade, provided they ensure dnf is not enabled. As always for upgrades,
    third party packages, and combinations of packages installed that no one testing
    the upgrades has, can cause problems qa has not encounterd.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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  • From Grimble@2:250/1 to All on Tue Nov 19 16:27:11 2019
    On 18/11/2019 22:34, David W. Hodgins wrote:
    On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 12:37:05 -0500, Grimble <grimble@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

    Set off an upgrade on my laptop Mageia 6 -> 7. Rebooting gives me:
    VGACON disables amdgpu kernel modesetting.
    Googling showed one or two possible solutions but suggestions didn't
    work. Any suggestions?

    How did you do the upgrade? Are you sure it finished?
    Please confirm "urpmq --list-url" shows distrib/7, and urpmi-auto-update shows
    packages are up-to-date.

    What's the contents of /proc/cmdline, and which video card/driver is
    being used?
    Hi Dave. Upgrade procedure was as defined as manual upgrade in the
    Release Notes. dnf was switched of as described.
    urpmq --list url shows only distrib/7 lines. urpmi --auto-update shows "packages are up to date"
    /proc/cmdline contains
    BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.3.7-desktop-4.mga7 root= <some long UID>
    nokmsboot splash quiet noiswmd resume=<some long UID> audit=0 3
    Graphics card is AMD Radeon R5
    The upgrade process was interrupted because the electricity company
    turned off the power for two hours, which killed the router. When power returned, I merely continued with urpmi --auto-update --auto --force and
    the download continued. I did have script active for the first part -
    just scanned through it. Several warnings eg "perl:setting locale
    failed", but no errors.

    Regards, Graeme

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    Machine 'Handel' running Plasma 5.15.4 on 5.3.7-desktop-4.mga7 kernel.
    Mageia release 7 (Official) for x86_64

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  • From Bit Twister@2:250/1 to All on Tue Nov 19 17:51:26 2019
    On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:27:11 +0000, Grimble wrote:

    Hi Dave. Upgrade procedure was as defined as manual upgrade in the
    Release Notes. dnf was switched of as described.
    urpmq --list url shows only distrib/7 lines. urpmi --auto-update shows "packages are up to date"
    /proc/cmdline contains
    BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.3.7-desktop-4.mga7 root= <some long UID>
    nokmsboot splash quiet noiswmd resume=<some long UID> audit=0 3
    Graphics card is AMD Radeon R5

    I have seen problems when using nokmsboot on my systems. Sometimes I had
    to remove it, sometimes I had to add it. I was funny that I had to add
    it to get gui login, I change grub to use it, reboot, and had to remove
    it. No pattern.


    The upgrade process was interrupted because the electricity company
    turned off the power for two hours, which killed the router. When power returned, I merely continued with urpmi --auto-update --auto --force and
    the download continued. I did have script active for the first part -
    just scanned through it. Several warnings eg "perl:setting locale
    failed", but no errors.

    I have setup my pull/install_updates script to use --download-all --test
    to pull down all rpms and test if install should work.
    I then do the install by removing the --test option.

    I would not be comfortable with your perl failures especially if I were
    doing updates and had a power fail.

    My script uses "script" to have a log of activity which I scan for
    error, warning, fail, fail,.... and I do not normally see problems.

    If you have a spare ~30 gig amount of space for a partition, and fast
    internet connection, I would suggest a clean network install.

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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/1 to All on Tue Nov 19 22:33:24 2019
    On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 11:27:11 -0500, Grimble <grimble@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

    /proc/cmdline contains
    BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.3.7-desktop-4.mga7 root= <some long UID>
    nokmsboot splash quiet noiswmd resume=<some long UID> audit=0 3

    Make sure you have a dm (gdm, lxdm, etc.) is installed, and try booting to
    run level 5.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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  • From grimble@2:250/1 to All on Wed Nov 20 12:11:21 2019
    On 19/11/2019 17:51, Bit Twister wrote:
    On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:27:11 +0000, Grimble wrote:

    Hi Dave. Upgrade procedure was as defined as manual upgrade in the
    Release Notes. dnf was switched of as described.
    urpmq --list url shows only distrib/7 lines. urpmi --auto-update shows
    "packages are up to date"
    /proc/cmdline contains
    BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.3.7-desktop-4.mga7 root= <some long UID>
    nokmsboot splash quiet noiswmd resume=<some long UID> audit=0 3
    Graphics card is AMD Radeon R5

    I have seen problems when using nokmsboot on my systems. Sometimes I had
    to remove it, sometimes I had to add it. I was funny that I had to add
    it to get gui login, I change grub to use it, reboot, and had to remove
    it. No pattern.

    Well, here we are back again. Removed nokmsboot from the boot command
    and we're back in business.
    Thanks for all help/comments.
    Graeme


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    Machine 'mozart' running Plasma 5.15.4 on 5.3.7-desktop-4.mga7 kernel.
    Mageia release 7 (Official) for x86_64

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