Antix 19 does not start

[Member byjosemaria]

Antix 19 does not start.
It may seem curious in a Virtual Box virtual machine, antix 19 starts very quickly and correctly. But on a real computer, Antix 19 does not start, it goes very slow and in the boot processor it is completely stopped in the window called ….. “start X”.
The loading process up to that “Start X” window is slower than with Antix 17.4.1

I have installed Antix 17.4.1, Mx Linux 18.3 on that same computer and they work perfectly. I created the live usb with rufus or MX Constructor Usb. I have tried the Isos: Full and Base.

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[Forum Admin BitJam]

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byjosemaria wrote:

completely stopped in the window called ….. “start X”.

This sounds only like a problem with the graphics driver. You should be able to get to a console log-in from that screen with the key combo Alt-F2.

Have you tried the “Safe Video” boot option? It should be in the bootloader menu. This should help you get X started but without accelerated graphics. We would also like to see the output of the “inxi -Fxx” command but it may be hard to get that info to us if X doesn’t start. One way would to switch to a virtual console with Alt-F2, log in, run the command, and then take a picture of the screen.

You can also get that information from your antiX-17 or MX-18 install or live media because we want to know about your hardware.

This situation is not extremely unusual. The “safe video” option should help you get to X. Once we know more about your hardware then we can suggest solutions.

PS: we added that “Start X” window so it would be easier to distinguish between a video driver problem and the system not booting at all. The video driver problem should be easier to solve.

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[Member byjosemaria]

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Hi:
The first video Antix 17.4.1 Ok
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ne4Uq9cr8PFRrcQt7

The second Antix 19 video, “normal boot”
https://photos.app.goo.gl/kFSYZd8YfQLAM5eC9

The third video Antix 19, “Safe video Mode”
https://photos.app.goo.gl/R3iaD3LQ4KjTmbDw7

Neither of the two ways to start Antix19 has finished well

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[Member ex_Koo]

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@byjosemaria

Try failsafe mode..
or
try editing Boot Options line by adding nomodeset to end of the line make sure you add a space before you type nomodeset

What type of video card do you have or is integrated cpu video ?

[Member byjosemaria]

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Hi:

Yes i have a external video card (Pci express) Hdmi: Nvidia Geforce GT170

– Try failsafe mode….> not start

– option “nomodoset” over:
* normal boot -> does not work
* “save video mode” -> does not work
* “Failsafe Boot” -> If it works only with 1024×768 resolution
Thanks

ex_Koo wrote:

@byjosemaria

Try failsafe mode..
or
try editing Boot Options line by adding nomodeset to end of the line make sure you add a space before you type nomodeset

What type of video card do you have or is integrated cpu video ?

• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by byjosemaria.

[Moderator christophe]

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I had the same situation (hanging at “start x” screen). It would hang there for several minutes; so long that I assumed it was frozen.

Although it doesn’t seem like this would be the answer, this forum post fixed it for me:
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/upon-booting-dhcp-looks-for-eth0-network-which-slows-boot-time/

In particular, using this recommendation from anticapitalista:

Another option since you are running frugal (live) 
is to add m to the disable cheat at the boot menu.

eg disable=lxm

• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by christophe.

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[Member andfree]

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Hi. In my case, it’s not exactly that it never starts, but sometimes (not all times) the slim login screen takes too many time to appear.

$ inxi -Fxz
System:
  Host: dragon Kernel: 4.9.193-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
  Desktop: IceWM 1.5.5+git20190610 
  Distro: antiX-19_386-full Marielle Franco 16 October 2019 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: TOSHIBA product: Satellite 2450 v: PS245E-03TE0-GK 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: TOSHIBA model: Portable PC v: Version A0 serial: <filter> BIOS: TOSHIBA 
  v: Version 1.30 date: 03/20/2003 
CPU:
  Topology: Single Core model: Intel Pentium 4 bits: 32 type: MCP 
  arch: Netburst Northwood rev: 7 L2 cache: 512 KiB 
  flags: pae sse sse2 bogomips: 5585 
  Speed: 2793 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 2793 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA NV17M [GeForce4 420 Go] vendor: Toshiba America Info Systems 
  driver: nouveau v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: nouveau unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
  resolution: 1024x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI nv17 x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 1.2 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM AC97 Audio vendor: Toshiba America Info Systems 
  driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.5 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.193-antix.1-486-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter 
  vendor: Toshiba America Info Systems driver: 8139too v: 0.9.28 port: ce00 
  bus ID: 02:09.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-1: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 93.16 GiB used: 19.93 GiB (21.4%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MK1032GAX size: 93.16 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 89.19 GiB used: 19.93 GiB (22.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 65.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 134 Uptime: 14m Memory: 1001.0 MiB used: 294.1 MiB (29.4%) Init: SysVinit 
  runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 inxi: 3.0.36

• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by andfree.

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