Re: Suddenly no X-window

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

Can you tell us which version of glibc and XFree86 you have? Your 
complete /var/log/XFree86.0.log might be useful too.

(David: perhaps some piece of 4.4 has been pulled by the debian X guys 
into their 4.3?)

	Duraid


Richard Harke wrote:
> I see the NVIDIA logo then it tries to change but immediately
> quits, that is it switches back to VGA terminal mode
>
> The lines I gave were from the messages on screen
> They were not in XFree86.0.log because they are from KDE and
> not from X
> Effectively, X only runs long enough for the Nvidia logo
> to display
>
>  
> On Sunday 28 March 2004 11:15 pm, Duraid Madina wrote:
>
> > 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