X, boot problem
Hi all,
New install pure64/sid:
Ran into X and boot problems after dist-upgrade on Friday.
Got this message:
"udev has not been fully enabled yet.
You may bre able to start udev without rebooting by running
/etc/init.d/udev stasrt
but this will break some things. If in doubt, please reboot your system
ASAP to activate udev."
I rebooted and the xserver would not start as detailed in Kristian's
thread. I tried Kristian's fix, cleaning out /etc/udev/rules.d,
symlinking etc. and tried to reboot.
Then I ran into the problem in Rob's "new 2.6.9 kernel" thread and could
not reboot on either SATA or ATA drive (I could do that before the
upgrade.)
I failed to boot Knoppix (2.4 or 2.6) but I had tried that
unsuccessfully before the upgrade in any case.
I reinstalled with sid-amd64 iso.
Once gdm was installed I got the same udev message above. I rebooted and
X won't start, which seems to be the problem Pete is having in his
thread.
This is the message in Dialog:
"GDM: Xserver not found: /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -audit 0 -auth
/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7
Error: command could not be executed!
Please install the Xserver or edit /etc/gdm/gdn.conf to point to the
right place."
There is no Xfree86.0.log in /var/log on the amd64 machine.
I have not tried anything to fix this yet after running
more /boot/initrd.img
and having the screen turn into hieroglyphics... (and successfully
rebooting into console mode again).
I don't have the other driver problems Kristian reported, USB and
network drivers are working fine.
All this happened after I had my new amd64 system working up and running
for about ten minutes. I had SATA disk, network, USB, sound, video all
working well and thought I would clean it up with a dist-upgrade.
My Debian experience is about a year on woody and three months on sarge
so this has been a real initiation into the world of sid!
Cheers,
Norv
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