Fedora 25 black screen after installation of Parallels Tools

Can confirm. Installing the OS goes fine. OS runs fine after the install, but fails after installing Parallels Tools. I tried an upgrade and two clean installs. Each failed in the same way: Blinking underscore cursor in the upper left screen corner while installing Parallels Tools. Was able to use the OS fine -- add Terminal to the Dash, customizing Terminal look and feel, etc. -- before installing Parallels Tools.
 
This might have something to do with the fact that Fedora 25 replaced the traditional X display server with Wayland (probably makes the current Parallels Tools incompatible?)
 
HeikkiL said:
This might have something to do with the fact that Fedora 25 replaced the traditional X display server with Wayland (probably makes the current Parallels Tools incompatible?)
Click to expand...

Wayland is an X-Server but the problem still exists in Rescue Mode. X-Server doesn't start in Rescue Mode. I also didn't have an X-Server installed (to my knowledge) on one of my installs. I'm not sure but I think so. I'm also finding that normal network services like SSH aren't listening so that makes me think that it's actually stopped the boot process. Otherwise I would expect to be able to SSH into the machine still. So I think that rules out Wayland.

More likely is that there's an incompatibility with the frame buffer device. That's what allows Linux to write to the screen. That's present with the VTTs and is likely being accessed by systemd during startup.

When I get a chance I'm going to try booting with a different video mode and see if that helps. I'm a bit fuzzy on my systemd rescue stuff so it will take me a little time.
 
I tried 4 times and all 4 times failed, including one Fedora 24 upgrading to 25.

I contacted Parallels Support and they confirmed this problem - the issue also happened on their support center test machines. However, they didn't give me any estimated time to fix the problem.
 
Same problem encountered here. The installation process exit with error at about 60%... and advise me to go to the parallels tool installation log at /var/log.. error indicate cannot locate some components, such as python, etc.
 
Does anybody know if there's any opened bug that can be checked to find the current state for this issue by Paralles Support?
I'm suffering same (or similar) issue. I've applied as workaround uninstalling Parallels Tools. Currently I can log into gnome and work normally, but I cannot use the right monitor resolution in a 21:9 display. I've not tested reinstalling again for at least 3 weeks of Fedora updates but no Parallels changes.
 
I'll try to put together a guide here for getting Fedora 25 to work more or less. This is for advanced linux users and I may have missed a few things here and there.

Follow these steps after you have finished installing. If you have a black screen, press ctrl+alt+f2 or alt+f2 to get a console.

1) enable sshd:

sudo systemctl enable sshd
sudo systemctl start sshd

now you should be able to ssh in to edit files etc.

2) enable Fedora 24 repos

Edit /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo
add an entry called [fedora-24] that is the same as the [fedora] entry but with $releasever replaced with 24, it should look like this:

[fedora-24]
name=Fedora 24 - $basearch
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/24/Everything/$basearch/os/
metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-24&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-24-$basearch
skip_if_unavailable=False

Do the same thing in fedora-updates.repo for the [updates] entry, the new entry should look like this:

[updates-24]
name=Fedora 24 - $basearch - Updates
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/24/$basearch/
metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f24&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
metadata_expire=6h
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-24-$basearch
skip_if_unavailable=False

run:

sudo dnf makecache

and make sure there are no errors.

3) downgrade Xorg to 1.18

sudo dnf --allowerasing repository-packages updates-24 install xorg-x11-server-Xorg

4) lock the Xorg version

sudo dnf install 'dnf-command(versionlock)'
sudo dnf versionlock xorg-x11-server-Xorg

5) add iomem=relaxed to kernel command line

Edit /etc/default/grub and edit the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX entry to add "iomem=relaxed", it should look like this:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rhgb iomem=relaxed quiet"

Now regenerate the grub command line.

If you are **NOT** using EFI, the command is:

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

If you **ARE** using EFI, the command is:

grub2-mkconfig -o /etc/grub2-efi.cfg

6) install KDE

sudo dnf install @kde-desktop

7) set gdm settings to disable Wayland and start KDE

Edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf, the [daemon] section should look something like this:

[daemon]
# Uncoment the line below to force the login screen to use Xorg
WaylandEnable=false
AutomaticLoginEnable=True
AutomaticLogin=<<M*** YOUR USER HERE ***>>>
DefaultSession=plasma.desktop

AutomaticLogin should be your actual user name.

8) Reboot, select KDE

Reboot the VM, if you are logged into Gnome automatically, log out, and in the login screen select the KDE Plasma desktop from the little gear icon next to the password box.

This should log you into KDE.

9) Turn off Compositing in KDE

Got to System Settings > Display and Monitor > Compositor in KDE and turn off the "Enable Compositor on Startup" checkbox, this is necessary if you want to use Coherence mode.

10) Reinstall Parallels Tools

Reinstall the Tools and reboot again, after this everything should work, including Coherence mode.

If you have problems with this guide, let me know and I will update it.
 
Thx, this ^^ worked for me. This was to rescue an upgrade from F24 to F25.

Single user, switched to non graphical systemctl set-default multi-user.target; systemctl default.

Followed the above to step 5 and of course step 10 + set graphical.target.
 
Today I've just applied last Parallels Update (Version 12.1.2 (41525)) and this solved problem for me (Fedora 25 with Gnome). I was able to install parallels tools and display is working fine now. Thanks to Parallel's development team. It seems this solves another long term problem, pdf printing from parallels, hope this will be true too.
 
AlbertoP2 said:
Today I've just applied last Parallels Update (Version 12.1.2 (41525)) and this solved problem for me (Fedora 25 with Gnome). I was able to install parallels tools and display is working fine now. Thanks to Parallel's development team. It seems this solves another long term problem, pdf printing from parallels, hope this will be true too.
Click to expand...
Rats, my Fedora 25 VM is still showing a black screen.
 
My box is still broken; differently, but still broken. After re-installing the Parallels Tools I now see the login screen, but after logging in, the screen flashes and I'm immediately logged off :)

Ideas anyone?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top