Re: Suddenly no X-window

[Duraid Madina <duraid@octopus.com.au>]

What precisely do you mean by "X starts, but KDE will not run?" I'm 
assuming:

- You see the NVIDIA splash screen (logo on white)
- This screen changes to some other screen (presumably a login screen)
- KDE tries to do something, and this doesn't work (from what you've 
pasted, it looks like it crashes the X server?)

Is this right?

A bit puzzled,

	Duraid

Richard Harke wrote:
> On Friday 26 March 2004 01:57 pm, David Mosberger wrote:
>
> > > > > > > On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 19:36:55 +1100, Duraid Madina
> > > > > > > <duraid@octopus.com.au> said:
> >
> >  Duraid> You'll probably want to use a newer nvidia driver (from
> >  Duraid> nvidia.com) or move libc back down. I don't think you have
> >  Duraid> any other choices.
> >
> > A word of warning with the nvidia driver: it's important to use the
> > driver with a "matching" XFree86 server.  AFAIK, the current nvidia
> > drivers work with all version of XFree86 v4.3.x, but NOT with v4.4.x.
> > Apparently, there is some version-checking support in the X server
> > which could detect such mismatches, but the nvidia driver doesn't seem
> > to do that and as a result, it will load into XFree86 v4.4.xx just
> > fine, except that it will then sooner or later crash with a segfault.
> >
> > 	--david
>
>
> Well, I went to a newer nvidia driver, 1.0-5336
> (NVIDIA-Linux-ia64-1.0-5336-pkg1.run  there was also a "pkg0"
> version in the ftp archive, but I guess that was an oops)
>
> Now X starts but KDE will not run
>
> (II) Initializing extension GLX
> startkde: Starting up...
> /usr/X11R6/bin/kde: line 143: 14986 Segmentation fault    kreadconfig --file
>     kpersonalizerrc --group General --key FirstLogin --default true --type         
> bool
> _X11TransOpen: Unable to find transport for local
> ksplash: cannot connect to X server :0
> Warning: connect() failed:  : No such file or directory
> ksmserver:  cannot connect to X server :0
> startkde: Shutting down...
> Warning: connect() failed:  : No such file or directory
> Error: Can't contact kdeinit!
> startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
> startkde: Done.
>
> I think that the _X11TransOpen failure is the key one but I
> don't understand what it means precisely.  There were
> messages during boot up about "no response from
> localhost" Does that mean that some demon is not running??
> I can ping localhost and a lot of others. Also, ftp to nvidia and
> apt-get to debian have worked fine.
>
> Richard Harke