Yes, I know. Thought that the only differences between the two where support and licensing. No difference in iso image. I thought wrong.

That are links to the professional edition of ClearOS.

Can I use one of these to install the Community edition too?

Both ISO's it works fine.
When the old ISO can be replaced with this one in Download Page? So that users are not confused anymore in the installation.

Thx

This will replace the ISO in the download section. If it passes all other tests (which it should since it is essentially the same except for the screen bits) it will be the ISO for 6.6 (6.6.1 vs 6.6.0)

@Dave works ok now. Thank you!

Will this replace the image on the download section right? Or should i keep this for future installations?

Okay, I prepared a USB stick. I tried a other stick (2GB) and the Clearcenter how-to is working fine. Cool we can now install ClearOS this way. Installed ClearOS Professional x64. All went fast and smooth. The Network config screen is working again. Like mihai I installed this on the server which has problems with the previous ISO. Good job and thank you.

I'll give it a try tonight on the same system I have seen/reported the issue.
Thx

After diner i will try the ISO. I have a server doing nothing at the moment. Also when ClearOS 7.1 beta comes available I want to try this on this machine.

I have an ISO for some people to test that has the fix integrated in it. I know many of you use ClearOS for production but if you have a test server that was previously (and adversely) affected by the black screen on console 1 could you try out this ISO install and let me know how it goes?

http://mirror1-orem.clearsdn.com/clearos/professional/6.6.1/iso/x86_64/

or

http://mirror1-orem.clearsdn.com/clearos/professional/6.6.1/iso/i386/

Thanks for everyone's feedback...here is what is going on:

Previous versions of ClearOS would use a minimalist configuration file for Xwindows in order to produce the graphical console. To be clear, the graphical console these days is only useful for configuring network cards. Full functionality of webconfig is 'hidden/restricted' to the console because in order to have all the bits working for Webconfig you would need a full XWindows session with Full-blown Mozilla Firefox and all the bells and whistles.

Well, we don't want a bloated install and the graphical console is really a bit of bloat that is added to create a convenience for network administrators to configure ClearOS just up to the point that you can reach Webconfig with a real web browser. So the minimal install that we have going used a bit of a cheat to make sure that the console would work on most every system out there. Specifically, we'd put the screen in 800x600 and the system would typically just work out the rest of the bits.

Well, the core packages have changed somewhat and this leaves us with a bug that is sometimes there and sometimes not. For example, on my intel-based graphics card the vm.conf file with the basic settings messes me up. To fix the problem, I simply delete the file and it works!

On my silicon-graphics machine, CentOS will experience no problem with a blank config if I install the Desktop version of the OS...but if I install ClearOS and then all of the same CentOS packages, it still has a problem running under blank config. If I run the Xorg -configure...voila! It works just fine.

The current solution that we have so far is to run Xorg -configure at the right point. This will create a config file for the intel graphics machines that DON'T need one at all and will create one that should also work for many, many other chipsets. If it doesn't work then this group of people have interesting graphic card that may just need the same TLC that we would have to give very rarely in support with the old 800x600.

But here is something to try. Our new release of the 6.6 ISO and patch (coming very, very soon) will look to the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory and inquire to see if there is a vm.conf file. If there is not, it will use Xorg -configure to make one and put it in place.

So if your vm.conf is bad remove it (mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/vm.conf /root/vm.conf.old) and then system will automatically generate a new one using Xorg -configure and put it in the right place.

Perchance the vm.conf file that it makes is bad? You can hand modify it for sure but you can also see if the system is just smart enough to work around not having one at all just like my intel-based test boxes. If you want to test a blank config, move the bad one aside (mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/vm.conf /root/vm.conf.old) and then create a blank one(touch /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/vm.conf).

Let us know if you have further issues on this topic and check next week to grab a better copy of the 6.6 iso.

After i run /usr/bin/Xorg -configure &
mv /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/vm.conf

it works.

? - I downloaded a 6.6 iso over the weekend to install on a VM to test something. (It installed without a black screen)

Any chance we can have an unofficial iso to test?

I had noticed the black screen in a fresh install of 6.6 but I discarded it as being a problem of old hardware. I could retest.

Thanks!

Dave Loper wrote:

Our upstream linux distribution changed some fundamental things which renders the Xconsole a bit wonky. In the past we had included a config that was very stripped down and very basic. That doesn't seem to work here now for some and some users (even some users of ClearBOX) will end up with an invalid Screen set. We will have a fix for the mainline code that should work and we need people to test the update that fixes this. Peter will give some info for testers.

If you really, really need a quick fix you can remove the vm.conf file and recreate one that works with your monitor. Perform the following steps to do a manual intervention of your Clearconsole:

1) Exit the console session to another screen by typing Ctrl+Alt+F2.
2) Log into this console as 'root'
3) Kill the Xwindows session with 'killall xinit'
4) move the vm.conf file:
mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/vm.conf /root/vm.conf.bad

5) recreate a new config:
/usr/bin/Xorg -configure

6) Move this new file into place:
mv /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/vm.conf

7) Switch back to the Text console by pressing typing 'exit' and Enter. Then type Ctrl+Alt+F1
8) Log into the TUI console by supplying the root password for the 'Administrator' login.
9) "Launch Graphics-mode Console" by pressing F2 or by pressing <Enter> with that option highlighted.

This work for IBM Xseries and Lennovo. Thanks.
Hopefully the new ISO, was released soon.

Dave Loper wrote:

Would love some feedback on this before pushing an new ISO for 6.6. I've tested this on ClearBOX 700 and am in the process of testing on other hardware but would like more feedback if possible.

David I suggested your fix for the following problem: Install 6.6 on VMware ESXI 5.5 and it seems to have been successful.

Dave Loper wrote:

Would love some feedback on this before pushing an new ISO for 6.6. I've tested this on ClearBOX 700 and am in the process of testing on other hardware but would like more feedback if possible.

Have tested the same on several other J1900 mobo's. None of them worked as expected. Works in console mode, but gui install wizard doesn't start.

Would love some feedback on this before pushing an new ISO for 6.6. I've tested this on ClearBOX 700 and am in the process of testing on other hardware but would like more feedback if possible.

Dave Loper wrote:

Our upstream linux distribution changed some fundamental things which renders the Xconsole a bit wonky. In the past we had included a config that was very stripped down and very basic. That doesn't seem to work here now for some and some users (even some users of ClearBOX) will end up with an invalid Screen set. We will have a fix for the mainline code that should work and we need people to test the update that fixes this. Peter will give some info for testers.

If you really, really need a quick fix you can remove the vm.conf file and recreate one that works with your monitor. Perform the following steps to do a manual intervention of your Clearconsole:

1) Exit the console session to another screen by typing Ctrl+Alt+F2.
2) Log into this console as 'root'
3) Kill the Xwindows session with 'killall xinit'
4) move the vm.conf file:
mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/vm.conf /root/vm.conf.bad

5) recreate a new config:
/usr/bin/Xorg -configure

6) Move this new file into place:
mv /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/vm.conf

7) Switch back to the Text console by pressing typing 'exit' and Enter. Then type Ctrl+Alt+F1
8) Log into the TUI console by supplying the root password for the 'Administrator' login.
9) "Launch Graphics-mode Console" by pressing F2 or by pressing <Enter> with that option highlighted.

Thanks Dave

Our upstream linux distribution changed some fundamental things which renders the Xconsole a bit wonky. In the past we had included a config that was very stripped down and very basic. That doesn't seem to work here now for some and some users (even some users of ClearBOX) will end up with an invalid Screen set. We will have a fix for the mainline code that should work and we need people to test the update that fixes this. Peter will give some info for testers.

If you really, really need a quick fix you can remove the vm.conf file and recreate one that works with your monitor. Perform the following steps to do a manual intervention of your Clearconsole:

1) Exit the console session to another screen by typing Ctrl+Alt+F2.
2) Log into this console as 'root'
3) Kill the Xwindows session with 'killall xinit'
4) move the vm.conf file:
mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/vm.conf /root/vm.conf.bad

5) recreate a new config:
/usr/bin/Xorg -configure

6) Move this new file into place:
mv /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/vm.conf

7) Switch back to the Text console by pressing typing 'exit' and Enter. Then type Ctrl+Alt+F1
8) Log into the TUI console by supplying the root password for the 'Administrator' login.
9) "Launch Graphics-mode Console" by pressing F2 or by pressing <Enter> with that option highlighted.

done.now it works
thx for all replies.

We seem to be having another round of blank screens in ClearOS 6.6. If possible, try changing the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/vm.conf to:

Section "Screen"

    Identifier    "Default Screen"

    Monitor        "Configured Monitor"

    Device        "Configured Video Device"

    DefaultDepth    24

    Subsection "Display"

        Depth       24

        Modes       "800x600" "640x480"

       EndSubsection

EndSection

And then reboot.

Thx Nick, Marcel,

I'll give it a try asap.

Okay the screen is totally unresponsive. Not sure how to help further... One question what gpu has the Supermicro motherboard? I also use a Supermicro motherboard (A1SAM-2750F) but that is working fine.

I had a similar problem a year ago and I had to change the grub line. It is now:

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-504.8.1.v6.x86_64 ro root=UUID=2ea45e58-9dcb-4a0d-b405-7d9d3a30426a rd_NO_LUKS  KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=uk LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_NO_MD SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 crashkernel=auto rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_DM video=vesafb vga=791

The critical bit is the vga=791 but you can't change that in grub.conf on its own or ClearOS changes it back. I cannot remember what the other bits I had to change were. I also have removed the bit giving the splash screen, so you can see all the boot messages, but, again, I don't remember which parameter that was.

If you can get to a command line with alt+F2 or ctl+alt+f2, then can you perhaps try this solution?

i belive it works but i can't see anything.
it's defo a driver issue.i'll reinstalling on a vga display @ work.

So if you try a function key to go for example to the command line it's not working?

Thx for the reply.
It works fine until my first restart.then loads the system for a time then i got black screen.

Hi mihai,

Your screen is not working at all or just blank? You could try this:

F1: main text install screen

F2: command line (not always available)

F3: general log

F4: driver log

F5: hard disk / CD log

F7: main install screen