Bug#804110: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: fresh install debian-8.2.0-amd64, Xfce yields black screen at login

[David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>]

On 11/13/2015 11:42 AM, David Christensen wrote:
> Let me try again, using a stopwatch:
>
>      0:00 push power button
>      0:07 POST displayed
>      0:12 GRUB menu displayed
>      0:17 GRUB runs
>      0:23 LUKS prompt displayed
>      1:00 LUKS passphrase entered
>      1:08 login screen displayed
>      2:00 login as toor
>      2:02 desktop displayed

Oops -- I pasted from the original dmesg.out file, not the new one. 
Here is dmesg output for the above via SSH (so I can't screw it up):

root@i72720qm:~# dmesg
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[    0.000000] Linux version 3.16.0-4-amd64 
(debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 4.8.4 (Debian 4.8.4-1) ) 
#1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u5 (2015-10-09)
[    0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-amd64 
root=/dev/mapper/sda3_crypt ro quiet
...
[    4.980369] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 117231408 512-byte logical blocks: 
(60.0 GB/55.
8 GiB)
[    4.980465] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[    4.980471] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[    4.980502] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: 
enabled, does
n't support DPO or FUA
[    4.982171]  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
[    4.983005] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[    4.990650] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw 
xa/form2 cdda
tray
[    4.990659] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[    4.991092] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[    4.991593] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[    4.991629] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
[    5.089918] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
[    5.090119] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.27.0-ioctl (2013-10-30) 
initialised: dm-d
evel@redhat.com
[   23.499859] random: nonblocking pool is initialized
[   44.129909] NET: Registered protocol family 38
[   44.360169] raid6: sse2x1    5295 MB/s
[   44.428098] raid6: sse2x2    8011 MB/s
[   44.496017] raid6: sse2x4   10909 MB/s
[   44.496018] raid6: using algorithm sse2x4 (10909 MB/s)
[   44.496019] raid6: using ssse3x2 recovery algorithm
[   44.496292] xor: automatically using best checksumming function:
[   44.535972]    avx       : 22491.000 MB/sec
[   44.538894] Btrfs loaded
...
[   48.495838] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: irq 42 for MSI/MSI-X
[   48.599608] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: irq 42 for MSI/MSI-X
[   48.599726] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[   51.534416] e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow 
Control: Rx/Tx
[   51.534470] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[   56.574118] dell_wmi: Received unknown WMI event (0x0)

So, a couple of delays.


David