Black screen during installation G/K 5.5 Inspiron 8 [Solved]

[Gustav]

Hi,

I'm trying to install from Sabayon_Linux_x86_5.5_G.iso
but in the middle of the process the screen goes black and half a minute later thereafter my CD-drive becomes silent.

Using my camera I see that
the screen goes black at:
....
INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
* Starting NetworkManager ...
modem-manager: ModemManager (version 0.4_pblablabla
modem-manager: Loaded plugin AnyData
Now it goes black

Using instead the KDE-version I come a few lines longer before the same thing happens:
....
INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
* Starting NetworkManager ...
....
modem-manager: Loaded plugin Ericsson MBM
modem-manager: Loaded plugin MotoC
Now it goes black

My computer is a laptop, Dell Inspiron 8200 with NVIDIA GForce4 and I just recently installed XP and thereafter from Sabayon_Linux_CoreCDX_5.5_x86.iso on the remaining 30 GB available.
(But I then understood that I wanted more than the CoreCDX)

Please advise

Gustav

[Fitzcarraldo]

Looking at /var/log/messages on my main laptop, the video driver kicks in somewhere after the messages for NetworkManager, so I reckon you may have a video driver problem. I suggest you boot the LiveDVD, press F5 at the LiveDVD's boot menu, append the kernel boot parameter xdriver=vesa and complete the boot process and try to install. If that works then you can play with varying the video driver.

[Gustav]

Thanks.

And so I came a bit further.
Though I need some more guidance, please.

I installed Sabayon and ran the
# equo update
# equo upgrade
# equo conf update

When I now reboot I come to the screen Welcome to sabayon.
I select Session type: Default and login.
Shortly thereafter, when the tools-icon emerges, I am suddenly thrown out back to the Welcome screen.
This is the same with the session types KDE 4.6 Plasma Workspace and others (which don't even show those icons),
except for Fluxbox and FailSafe which work.
How can I proceed?
Incidentally, the xorg.conf now has Driver "vesa".

Thanks in advance
Gustav

[Fitzcarraldo]

Try Attention KDE 4.6 users. If that does not work, try deleting /home/gustav/.kde4

[Gustav]

No success.
Well, after having done the

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cp -a /etc/skel/.kde* ~/

I saw a new background like 'bubbles in space', but was still thrown out at about the same place.
So I deleted the .kde4 and saved a logfile that might throw some light?:

0;gustav@sabayon2011:~^Ggustav@sabayon2011 ~ $ rm -rf .kde4
0;gustav@sabayon2011:~^Ggustav@sabayon2011 ~ $ startkde
startkde: Starting up...
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
kbuildsycoca4 running...
kbuildsycoca4(9617)/kdecore (services) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/kde_x-sulfur.desktop" has Type= "MimeType" instead of "Application" or "Service"

kbuildsycoca4(9617) KBuildServiceFactory::createEntry: Invalid Service : "/usr/share/applications/kde_x-sulfur.desktop"
"KConfigIni: In file /tmp/kde-gustav/kconf_updateLh9618.tmp, line 1: " Invalid entry (missing '=')
klauncher(9612)/kio (KLauncher): SlavePool: No communication with slave.

kded(9614) Kded::loadModule: Could not load library "kded_powerdevil" . [ "Cannot load library /usr/lib/kde4/kded_powerdevil.so: (libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)" ]
kded(9614)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
Fetched layout groups from X server: layouts: ("us") variants: ("")
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)

Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
kded(9614)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
QDBusConnection: name 'org.kde.kglobalaccel' had owner '' but we thought it was ':1.23'
Could not open library ksmserver: Cannot load library /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_ksmserver.so: (libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
ksmserver: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
startkde: Shutting down...
klauncher: Exiting on signal 1

[wolfden]

make sure to run equo deptest and equo libtest before anything

[Gustav]

Yes
that did it!
Thanks to both of you.

To recapitulate:
Boot Live CD > Graphical Installation > F5
"Boot options: bla bla bla --" This row is editable! Append "xdriver=vesa".
Continue installation and then run
# equo deptest
# equo libtest
# equo update
# equo upgrade
# equo conf update
$ cp -a /etc/skel/.kde* ~/ (maybe?)

Gustav

[Matte88]

To recapitulate:
Boot Live CD > Graphical Installation > F5
"Boot options: bla bla bla --" This row is editable! Append "xdriver=vesa".
Continue installation and then run
# equo deptest
# equo libtest
# equo update
# equo upgrade
# equo conf update
$ cp -a /etc/skel/.kde* ~/ (maybe?)
Gustav

update-># equo install entropy --relaxed->upgrade... I do not think the last command is still necessary