Bug 1629860

Summary: Fedora 29 Live ISO does not work in safe mode due to "Failed to create backend: Could not find a primary drm kms device"
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Lukas Ruzicka <lruzicka>
Component: mesaAssignee: Adam Jackson <ajax>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 29CC: ajax, alexl, bskeggs, caillon+fedoraproject, fschwarz, igor.raits, jglisse, john.j5live, rhughes, rstrode, thatslyude
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Journalctl from the failed attempt to run the Live ISO. none

Description Lukas Ruzicka 2018-09-17 14:15:55 UTC
Created attachment 1484046 [details]
Journalctl from the failed attempt to run the Live ISO.

Description of problem:

Fedora 29 Live ISO does not work in safe mode due to "Failed to create backend: Could not find a primary drm kms device" error.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Fedora 29 Beta RC 1.3 ISO

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start the Live ISO in safe graphical mode.

Actual results:

The Live ISO hangs on a black screen and no graphics can be seen. 

Expected results:

The ISO should boot with no problems.

Additional info:

See the journalctl logs.

Comment 1 Lukas Ruzicka 2018-09-17 14:16:58 UTC
This bug can be another manifestation of bug 1628495. It happens on the same computer.

Comment 2 Lukas Ruzicka 2018-09-17 14:19:19 UTC
Addition: This problem appears both in BIOS and UEFI modes.

Comment 3 Ben Cotton 2019-10-31 19:08:31 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 29 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 29 on 2019-11-26.
It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer
maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a
Fedora 'version' of '29'.

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Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2019-11-27 22:51:14 UTC
Fedora 29 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2019-11-26. Fedora 29 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

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