Re: X server will not start up after driver "upgrade"
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Mark Kahnt wrote:
On Fri, 2005-08-07 at 10:56 -0400, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
Thanks for your response and your insight. I performed a few more tests
(sad that "starting my computer" is now tantamount to running tests) and
found:
- for my user, from gdm, the result is effectively the same for Gnome,
KDE, and Xfce -- I get a blank screen (or the debian splash) with a mouse
cursor which still responds to mouse movement, and then about 15 seconds
later I get kicked back to the gdm greeter.
- the computer has two other normal local users, who can both login from
gdm normally.
- root cannot login from gdm (default security settings) but can start
its own X session from console.
So I agree with you that there is something wrong with my user, but it's
somehow lower-level than Gnome, but higher-level than X. What's there?
I could, I suppose, try creating a new user, deleting the old user, and
then changing the UID of the new user (I need the UID to be the same in
order to interact with other computers properly). But if the problem is
deeper than user config files, this approach might not find it, especially
if the new user ends up with the same username and uid as the old user.
If you have any suggestions, I'd be happy to take this discussion to a
more appropriate list, but I wouldn't know where just yet.
Thanks again for your help. It would mean a lot for me to get this fixed.
-Brandon
Do you have a tail of .xsession-errors for your account? What
does .gnome2/session say?
I've had that sort of a problem - had to effectively recreate the user
because I couldn't pinpoint the bad setting, but I've also had problems
such as GTK 1 being incompatible with my graphics card driver (an old
ATI Rage III Pro) from X11 4.3 - it sounds like one program, probably
early in the session loading, is set in an incompatible way. Does even
Failsafe Gnome fail? How about Failsafe Terminal?
No (EE) lines in XFree86.*.log .. in XFree86.1.log.old, there was one:
(EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (NVIDIA X driver not found)
That file was datestamped around midnight last night, right about when I
gave up on the closed driver.
Here is .gnome2/session:
[Default]
0,id=117f000001000112071161100000059080014
0,Program=500
0,CloneCommand=xmms
0,RestartCommand=xmms --sm-client-id 117f000001000112071161100000059080014
1,id=117f000001000111940748400000211590003
1,RestartStyleHint=1
1,Priority=40
1,Program=gnome-volume-manager
1,CurrentDirectory=/home/b
1,CloneCommand=gnome-volume-manager --sm-config-prefix /gnome-volume-manager-fzskAr/
1,RestartCommand=gnome-volume-manager --sm-config-prefix /gnome-volume-manager-fzskAr/ --sm-client-id 117f000001000111940748400000211590003 --screen 0
2,id=117f000001000111940748300000211590002
2,RestartStyleHint=2
2,Priority=40
2,Program=gnome-panel
2,CurrentDirectory=/home/b
2,CloneCommand=gnome-panel --sm-config-prefix /gnome-panel-iIgGCR/ --profile default
2,RestartCommand=gnome-panel --sm-config-prefix /gnome-panel-iIgGCR/ --sm-client-id 117f000001000111940748300000211590002 --screen 0 --profile default
3,id=117f000001000111940748400000211590004
3,RestartStyleHint=2
3,Priority=40
3,Program=nautilus
3,CurrentDirectory=/home/b
3,CloneCommand=nautilus --sm-config-prefix /nautilus-7O0ctW/
3,RestartCommand=nautilus --sm-config-prefix /nautilus-7O0ctW/ --sm-client-id 117f000001000111940748400000211590004 --screen 0 --no-default-window
4,id=117f000001000111991801700000060280000
4,Program=gnome-terminal
4,CurrentDirectory=/home/b
4,CloneCommand=gnome-terminal --sm-config-prefix /gnome-terminal-SWYzN9/
4,RestartCommand=gnome-terminal --sm-config-prefix /gnome-terminal-SWYzN9/ --sm-client-id 117f000001000111991801700000060280000 --screen 0 --window-with-profile-internal-id=Default --show-menubar --role=gnome-terminal-6187--1761934360-1119918018 --active --geometry 109x22 --title b@plaza:\\ /home/b --working-directory /home/b --zoom 1 --tab-with-profile-internal-id=Default --title b@plaza:\\ /home/b/bin/LimeWire --working-directory /home/b/bin/LimeWire --zoom 1 --tab-with-profile-internal-id=Default --title b@plaza:\\ /etc/X11 --working-directory /etc/X11 --zoom 1 --tab-with-profile-internal-id=Default --title b@plaza:\\ /home/b/music/downloads --working-directory /home/b/music/downloads --zoom 1
5,id=117f000001000111942552400000211590025
5,RestartStyleHint=0
5,Program=evolution-alarm-notify
5,CurrentDirectory=/
5,CloneCommand=evolution-alarm-notify --sm-config-prefix /evolution-alarm-notify-ZOdke6/
5,RestartCommand=/usr/lib/evolution/2.0/evolution-alarm-notify --sm-config-prefix /evolution-alarm-notify-ZOdke6/ --sm-client-id 117f000001000111942552400000211590025 --screen 0
6,id=117f000001000111940748200000211590000
6,RestartStyleHint=2
6,Priority=0
6,Program=gnome-smproxy
6,DiscardCommand=rm /home/b/.gnome2//.gnome-smproxy-1fXKq8
6,CloneCommand=gnome-smproxy --sm-config-prefix /.gnome-smproxy-1fXKq8/
6,RestartCommand=gnome-smproxy --sm-config-prefix /.gnome-smproxy-1fXKq8/ --sm-client-id 117f000001000111940748200000211590000
7,id=117f000001000111940748300000211590001
7,RestartStyleHint=2
7,Priority=20
7,Program=metacity
7,CurrentDirectory=/home/b
7,DiscardCommand=rm -f /home/b/.metacity/sessions/1120789222-5995-2035169855.ms
7,CloneCommand=metacity
7,RestartCommand=metacity --sm-save-file 1120789222-5995-2035169855.ms
num_clients=8
Nothing particularly noteworthy.
This is all I get when starting into Gnome in .xsession-errors:
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "b"
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
SESSION_MANAGER=local/plaza:/tmp/.ICE-unix/6994
KDE comes back with segfaults:
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "b"
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
startkde: Starting up...
startkde: Running kpersonalizer...
/usr/bin/startkde: line 196: 7122 Segmentation fault kwin --lock
/usr/bin/startkde: line 196: 7123 Segmentation fault kpersonalizer --before-session
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
DCOP aborting call from 'anonymous-7138' to 'kded'
kded: ERROR: Communication problem with kded, it probably crashed.
Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy
Warning: connect() failed: : Connection refused
/usr/bin/startkde: line 220: 7140 Segmentation fault kwrapper ksmserver $KDEWM
startkde: Shutting down...
Warning: connect() failed: : Connection refused
Error: Can't contact kdeinit!
startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
startkde: Done.
And, for completeness, Xfce:
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "b"
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
/usr/bin/startxfce4: X server already running on display :0
** (xfce4-session:7170): WARNING **: Failed to get splash theme setting
** (xfce4-session:7170): WARNING **: Unable to open session file /home/b/.xfce4/sessions/xfsm-plaza for reading: No such file or directory
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Failsafe-gnome fails same as Gnome. Failsafe-terminal works, but seems to
be useless. I got in and then didn't know what to do, so I tried starting
Mozilla from the command line and got a segfault. Then I logged out.
Thanks,
Brandon
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