On 10/19/2017 10:12 PM, William Mattison wrote:
The CTRL-ALT3-F3 got me a basic black-and-white login prompt. I logged in as root, and typed in "startx". I got a bunch of messages, ending with "Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.". I shut down. I booted up. I got ***no*** screen with the option to enter and edit bios. I got ***no*** grub menu. But I got a bunch of long thick white lines in seemingly random places, and of seemingly random length. I eventually got winter lake scene with a login gui. I was able to log in as root, launch Thunderbird, and mail the Xorg log to myself. Since I haven't yet done the post-upgrade tasks, I then shut down, and booted back into windows-7, where I am now.
That's a little confusing, but it sounds like you did end up eventually getting the proper login screen. What do you mean by "post-upgrade tasks"?
[ 171.550] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia" [ 171.550] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
You are using the proprietary NVidia driver.
[ 171.561] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. Please see the [ 171.561] (EE) NVIDIA: system's kernel log for additional error messages and [ 171.561] (EE) NVIDIA: consult the NVIDIA README for details.
But it was unable to load the NVidia kernel module. I suspect that somewhere in the reboot cycles you did, the NVidia kernel module ended up getting rebuilt by akmod. So it will probably work now, which is supported by you getting that login screen.
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