Mint 17 on a CF-18 Mk3 restarts to a black screen

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Re: Mint 17 on a CF-18 Mk3 restarts to a black screen

#11 Post by kode-niner »

Which Mint 17 are you using, Cinnamon, MATE, KDE or XCFE?
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Re: Mint 17 on a CF-18 Mk3 restarts to a black screen

#12 Post by SHEEPMAN! »

Mobus wrote:Jeff,

That is the extent of my file. I'll look at it again tonight to see if there is any difference or anything that looks like what you showed.

Mark
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dmesg show's what is happening but I don't see the restart anyplace..well I see it , it's where the numbers change dramatically....I don't see the trigger...then if you have to kill the unit dmesg start's over. Where did Mint 17 hide the error log?

To restart I hit super key quit restart (cinnamon)

Do a dmesg | tail for me.

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Re: Mint 17 on a CF-18 Mk3 restarts to a black screen

#13 Post by SHEEPMAN! »

O.K. just a thought but all you all take a look at swap file. More later. First entry on this one when dmesg numbers change.

IOW do we need a larger or pre-configured swap file? Sic 'em lads. (lassies)
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Re: Mint 17 on a CF-18 Mk3 restarts to a black screen

#14 Post by kode-niner »

As I pointed out earlier, Mobus can reboot the system by typing reboot in a shell. In my opinion, it would be wise to start from the basics and figure out what command is actually issued when he uses the menu instead.
Mobus wrote:... If instead of using the restart button I go into terminal and type 'sudo reboot' it will restart with no problem going all the way through the whole cycle including bringing up the bios splash screen and then boot the OS again....
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Re: Mint 17 on a CF-18 Mk3 restarts to a black screen

#15 Post by Mobus »

Jeff here's the tail as requested:

[ 28.968508] 8139too 0000:01:02.0 eth0: link down
[ 28.968629] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 28.973015] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 32.035797] lib80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'CCMP'
[ 32.053414] lib80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'TKIP'
[ 32.156855] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[ 32.157227] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[ 32.202696] init: plymouth-upstart-bridge main process (221) killed by TERM signal
[ 34.242368] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
[ 38.424458] init: anacron main process (1049) killed by TERM signal

Kode, I'm using Mint 17 Cinnamon.

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Re: Mint 17 on a CF-18 Mk3 restarts to a black screen

#16 Post by SHEEPMAN! »

We need to look at the kernel. There is a different driver in there for M17. Maybe a change in panasonic support.

I am ready to roll back to 13 Cinnamon until 17 gets the Intel thing sorted out. The only machine I recommend Mint 17 for "today" is the CF-30MK2 or CF-19 MK2. Probably 52MK2. 52 MK3 is quirky still. (screen flicker)

You are correct. :).....but I'm just learning....and may not find it.

Here is another quirk...on a CF-19 digitizer, I disable ext monitor in bios and get one line at 60 fps and then reversion to half that. Using glxgears as a tool. xrandr still reporting two monitors. LVDS1 should be the only one.....if ext is disabled. ???

Another idea...I will dig up my CF-29 Mint 17 caddy and try it in a MK3 (29) see if we are seeing the same thing as the 18 MK3. I've run it slowly in a 29MK1...well not too slow its a ssd.

More later.

Thanks..............................

IDEA.....mobus .....send me

Code: Select all

 $groups
.......maybe the reason the sudo reboot works and button does not is a permission deal. Meanwhile research permissions for hotkeys. And I will check lsmod? Yeah...that's right ....need to compare Mint 17 lsmod with Mint 13 or 16. BTW 13 goes eol in 2017.

Not an answer maybe but we're learning.

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Re: Mint 17 on a CF-18 Mk3 restarts to a black screen

#17 Post by Mobus »

$ groups yields the following:
mark adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin sambashare

Hopefully I did that right. I'm still learning. I figure years ago I learned DOS, with practice and exposure I'll catch on to this too.

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Re: Mint 17 on a CF-18 Mk3 restarts to a black screen

#18 Post by kode-niner »

If I could, I'd examine the menu's shutdown button and see what it's doing. Maybe it's doing an init 6. Or /sbin/reboot with arguments. Maybe even invoking /etc/init.d/reboot or some other custom script.

I've never ran Cinnamon so I don't know how things work in there. I'm almost willing to install it here just out of curiosity.

It's as if ACPI has not properly set the reset register, so after all the software shutdown routines have executed the system hangs because it doesn't have that crucial final instruction to issue to the hardware. It needs the reset register to reboot or to tell the power system to go to G2 or G3 state to shut down. Without either of those it probably does just that, sit there at a black screen indefinitely.
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Re: Mint 17 on a CF-18 Mk3 restarts to a black screen

#19 Post by SHEEPMAN! »

What do you need for the "if I could"?

Would a CF-29 ...have to be MK4 or 5 to install Mint 17 due to PAE...iow would it work? You are speaking above my training level. .....but I can provide a test bed. I fix things with baling wire. I repair with reverse engineering.....

One thing... ACPI was broken in MK2 for a time (according to Linux) Now MK2 works and everything else is broken.

We have two issues:

1. CF-18 Black Screen
2. CF-30 Screen flicker.

Where in Canada?

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Re: Mint 17 on a CF-18 Mk3 restarts to a black screen

#20 Post by kode-niner »

Reverse engineering is fun. If I could, I'd either install Mint 17 on some hard drive I have around here or actually boot from a live CD, if possible. I just need to take a peek under the hood. Either there's a menu editor GUI that would allow me to inspect the Restart menu item or there's a plain text or XML file that stores the menu entries somewhere. Just need to dig around a bit. Then we could finally know what the Restart button is precisely doing.

As far as CF-29 and PAE goes, both my MK3 and MK5 are currently running PAE kernels. I think all the Pentium Mobile 700 series have no issues with the PAE flag.

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