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graysky

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boot script goes black after udev begins processing

Once I get past the grub2 screen, I begin to see the start messages as daemons get initialized.  Pretty recently, after I see the 'Triggering UDev uevents' the screen goes black.  I only see output again when runmode 5 gets initiated by /etc/inittab's setting.  If set runmode 3 in /etc/inittab nothing every gets displayed - screen is still black.

Here is the /var/log/boot - everything loads fine.  Thoughts?

Sun Oct 16 14:32:40 2011: :: Adjusting system time and setting kernel timezone ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[57G   [DONE] 
Sun Oct 16 14:32:40 2011: :: Starting UDev Daemon ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[57G   [DONE] 
Sun Oct 16 14:32:40 2011: :: Triggering UDev uevents ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[57G   [DONE] 
Sun Oct 16 14:32:40 2011: :: Loading Modules ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[57G   [DONE] 
Sun Oct 16 14:32:40 2011: :: Waiting for UDev uevents to be processed ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[57G   [DONE] <--- here is where it goes black
Sun Oct 16 14:32:40 2011: :: Bringing up loopback interface ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[57G   [DONE] 
Sun Oct 16 14:32:40 2011: :: Checking Filesystems ^[[57G   [BUSY] /dev/sda3: clean, 135804/983040 files, 1531349/3932160 blocks
Sun Oct 16 14:32:40 2011: /dev/sda5: clean, 20733/59932672 files, 161804322/239707817 blocks
Sun Oct 16 14:32:40 2011: /dev/sda2: clean, 255/25688 files, 21950/102400 blocks
Sun Oct 16 14:32:40 2011: ^[[57G   [DONE] 
Sun Oct 16 14:32:40 2011: :: Remounting Root Read/Write ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[57G   [DONE] 
Sun Oct 16 14:32:40 2011: :: Creating mtab ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[57G   [DONE] 
Sun Oct 16 14:32:40 2011: :: Mounting Local Filesystems ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[57G   [DONE] 
Sun Oct 16 14:32:40 2011: :: Activating Swap ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[57G   [DONE] 
Sun Oct 16 14:32:40 2011: :: Configuring Time Zone ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[57G   [DONE] 
Sun Oct 16 14:32:40 2011: :: Initializing Random Seed ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[57G   [DONE] 
Sun Oct 16 14:32:40 2011: :: Removing Leftover Files ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[57G   [DONE] 
Sun Oct 16 14:32:41 2011: :: Setting Hostname: mars ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[57G   [DONE] 
Sun Oct 16 14:32:41 2011: :: Setting Locale: en_US.utf8 ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[57G   [DONE] 
Sun Oct 16 14:32:41 2011: :: Setting Consoles to UTF-8 mode ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[57G   [DONE] 
Sun Oct 16 14:32:41 2011: :: Loading Keyboard Map: us ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[57G   [DONE] 
Sun Oct 16 14:32:41 2011: :: Loading Console Font: sun12x22 ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[57G   [DONE] 
Sun Oct 16 14:32:41 2011: :: Saving dmesg Log ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[57G   [DONE] 
Sun Oct 16 14:32:41 2011: INIT: Entering runlevel: 5
Sun Oct 16 14:32:41 2011: :: Starting Syslog-NG ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[57G   [DONE] 
Sun Oct 16 14:32:41 2011: :: Starting ufw ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[57G   [DONE] 
Sun Oct 16 14:32:42 2011: :: Starting Network ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[57G   [DONE] 
Sun Oct 16 14:32:42 2011: :: Mounting Network Filesystems ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[57G   [DONE] 
Sun Oct 16 14:32:42 2011: :: Starting crond ^[[57G   [BKGD] :: Starting dbus ^[[57G   [BKGD^[[0;10
Sun Oct 16 14:32:45 2011: :: Starting rpcbind ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[57G   [DONE] 
Sun Oct 16 14:32:45 2011: :: Setting cpufreq governing rules ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[u, cpu^[[u 0^[[u 1^[[5
Sun Oct 16 14:32:45 2011: :: Starting Up Sensors ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[57G   [DONE] 
Sun Oct 16 14:32:45 2011: :: Starting ntpd ^[[57G   [BKGD] :: Starting lircd ^[[57G   [BKGD^[[0;10
Sun Oct 16 14:32:45 2011: :: Mounting pipefs filesystem ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[57G   [DONE] 
Sun Oct 16 14:32:45 2011: :: Starting rpc.idmapd daemon ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[57G   [DONE] 
Sun Oct 16 14:32:45 2011: :: Starting alsa ^[[57G   [BKGD] :: Starting microcode ^[[57G   [BKGD^[[
Sun Oct 16 14:32:46 2011: :: Exporting all directories ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[57G   [DONE] 
Sun Oct 16 14:32:46 2011: :: Starting rpc.nfsd daemon ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[57G   [DONE] 
Sun Oct 16 14:32:46 2011: :: Starting rpc.mountd daemon ^[[57G   [BUSY] ^[[57G   [DONE]

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amborle

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Registered: 2011-10-30

Posts: 3

Re: boot script goes black after udev begins processing

I have the same issue. However, my screen remains black. I login and "startx" (screen is still black, so all blindly). X starts, and everything is fine. So strange and annoying...

moetunes

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From: A comfortable couch

Registered: 2010-10-09

Posts: 1,033

Re: boot script goes black after udev begins processing

Sounds like you two have the same graphics card. There's probably a kernel boot parameter needed for it.

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amborle

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Registered: 2011-10-30

Posts: 3

Re: boot script goes black after udev begins processing

Solved.

Added

vga=795 nomodeset

to end of the kernel parameters in

/boot/grub/menu.lst

.