using panel menu to restart computer hides BIOS splash and grub

wolf · 2017-03-31 08:31:00

This is an odd bug—hope someone might have some insight.

Problem: Use XFCE panel to restart computer => no BIOS splash or grub displays (instead: black screen, though the software is running as normal, it does not display)
However: Manually power cycle computer (from PC tower, not from XFCE panel) after booting into OS lock screen => BIOS splash and grub show as normal

Took many hours of troubleshooting to put this concisely. I used to restart/shut down my computer through the panel menu, but I started having the stated issue within the last month or two (Manjaro XFCE rolling release). There's something about shutting down with the panel that changes how the BIOS splash & grub display. (I tried different monitor ports, both on integrated and NVIDIA graphics card. BIOS hasn't changed. Have no issues restarting from other OSes/partitions, which helped me realize that XFCE might be setting some graphical flag when I use the panel session menu.) Didn't see anything recently reported in the xfce4-session tracker, but I suspect it to be the culprit. Or might this be a Manjaro implementation issue? Any ideas on how to proceed?

Last edited by wolf (2017-03-31 19:44:06)

ToZ · 2017-03-31 12:03:49

Hello and welcome.

This is really odd. When you say that you use the panel to restart the computer, what exactly are you using? A specific plugin, the panel logout option, the whisker menu?

wolf · 2017-03-31 19:28:56

Primarily the Action Buttons plugin but same results from using Whisker Menu's options, which is why I think it has to do with the xfce session.

I'm only seeing one recent edit to `session`, though...

Last edited by wolf (2017-03-31 19:46:53)

ToZ · 2017-04-01 14:59:23

This is very odd. They all use dbus for those actions (shutdown, restart, suspend, etc) but I don't see how a session-based activity would affect a boot action.

There were some dbus changes made to xfce4-session back in June of last year. Can you grab from your pacman logs (/var/log/pacman.log) the update changes, dates and versions made to xfce4-session? Maybe those changes were just recently added to the manjaro repositories.

BTW, I run Xfce from the git tree so I have the latest version of xfce4-session and I don't experience the problem that you are describing. This is on Arch.

wolf · 2017-04-08 22:07:09

I tested `reboot` in Xfce Terminal and had the same issue—does xfce4-session handle that too? Perhaps it's something with Manjaro's installation, as I have the same issue on a clean install. (Manjaro thread here.) Would you know how to capture relevant logs for this? I didn't have any changes to xfce4-session in pacman.log, which only goes back to November.

Last edited by wolf (2017-04-08 22:08:15)

ToZ · 2017-04-09 00:00:47

wolf wrote:

I tested `reboot` in Xfce Terminal and had the same issue—does xfce4-session handle that too?

No it doesn't. That's a system action .

Would you know how to capture relevant logs for this? I didn't have any changes to xfce4-session in pacman.log, which only goes back to November.

If you're having the same issue running "reboot", I would look at the systemd journal.

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using panel menu to restart computer hides BIOS splash and grub

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