This has happened to me before, and from Bug 1964 (now closed) it was happening to quite a few people around that time. It was said not to be
a bug affecting performance, only a cosmetic one.
In my case, I see a gray screen having in the center, 3 small squares,
more a dirty white color, each containing a "?". Mageia 8 keeps loading
in text mode for a few lines, then the graphical login screen appears.
My video card is nvidia, and I configure it to use Mageia's nvidia
driver. Twice in a row, X says that it doesn't like that arrangement, changes the driver to nouveau, and tells me to reboot to give effect to
the change. There may be a recent upgrade of the driver: it was O.K.
about a week ago.
The screen with 3 question marks is grub failing to load properly. Check
the
journal. It may be a filesystem failing to mount or some other problem preventing
grub from loading the graphics it uses, such as a typo in the grub configuration.
Regards, Dave Hodgins
On 13/9/21 2:35 am, David W. Hodgins wrote:
The screen with 3 question marks is grub failing to load properly.
Check the
journal. It may be a filesystem failing to mount or some other problem
preventing
grub from loading the graphics it uses, such as a typo in the grub
configuration.
Regards, Dave Hodgins
Thanks, Dave. You are spot on. The journal is full of lines where each command from grub is read in turn. I didn't look back far enough
before. There was a reference to a config error in my 40_custom file,
so I will mark that file not executable and try again. Your comments
seem to imply that the strange colours between screens come from the
same cause. Also this:
"40grub2: appears to be an automatic reference taken from another grub.cfg"
I was always told that copying and pasting is the wrong way to do anything.
Doug.
Doug, that depends on what you are doing.
But is seems to be over-used at times in coding.
On 21/9/21 2:23 am, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
Doug, that depends on what you are doing.
But is seems to be over-used at times in coding.
I wouldn't know about coding, but it is over-used in genealogy. It is
too easy to copy somebody else's work without any checking. Then when somebody who does check, comes along, he has a bigger mess to wade through.
But here, I am basically having problems with "original" code that works
for others, and that used to work for me. Disabling 40_custom did what
it is supposed to, but didn't change anything. I thought that I had my
box recovered from a BIG crash, but there are still issues.
On 9/20/21 10:36, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
On 21/9/21 2:23 am, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
Doug, that depends on what you are doing.
But is seems to be over-used at times in coding.
I wouldn't know about coding, but it is over-used in genealogy. It is
too easy to copy somebody else's work without any checking. Then when
somebody who does check, comes along, he has a bigger mess to wade
through.
But here, I am basically having problems with "original" code that
works for others, and that used to work for me. Disabling 40_custom
did what it is supposed to, but didn't change anything. I thought
that I had my box recovered from a BIG crash, but there are still issues.
I feel your disquiet.
One of mine has been sidelined since last month
after an ill-considered attempt to get / more space.
I have find time to think about what partitions to create.
Timeshift could not find its backups so I moved to another
not quite as powerful but adequate to my needs.
bliss
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