Re: X broke after crash, restore, upgrade
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 08:25:42AM -0700, Ric Otte wrote:
> My hard drive recently died, and after installing a new one, I tried to get
> things working by first using Mondo to restore my system to the way it was a
> year ago. That worked fine. I then took a recent list of packages, and did:
> dpkg --set-selections<new.list.of.packages
> apt-get update
> apt-get dselect-upgrade
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> I received the following error:
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xfree86_4.2.1-12.1
> _i386.deb (--unpack):
> subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1.
> I tried various things, such as apt-get clean, but nothing helped. So I
> installed xserver-xfree86/stable instead of testing, which I normally run.
> This installed fine. But x is unable to start. I tried several different
> config files, including the one right before the crash and one from my
> office machine, but none of them seem to get X working. I will append the
> output of /var/log/XFree86.0.log below, but the last lines are something
> like:
> (EE) No Devices detected
> Fatal Server Error
> No screens found
> I've tried to run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 a couple of times, but
> that also didn't help. In case it is helpful, I will also append my
> most recent XF86Config-4 file at the end.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I am hoping to avoid
> erasing the disk and starting completely over. Thanks,
> Ric
>
> /var/log/XFree86.0.log :
>
(...)
> (II) MGA: driver for Matrox chipsets: mga2064w, mga1064sg, mga2164w,
> mga2164w AGP, mgag100, mgag100 PCI, mgag200, mgag200 PCI, mgag400
> (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
> (EE) No devices detected.
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
>
(...)
> Please report problems to submit@bugs.debian.org.
>
> XF86Config-4 file:
>
(...)
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "matrox g550"
> Driver "mga"
> BusID "PCI:01:00:0"
> Option "UseFBDev" "true"
> EndSection
>
(...)
Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
>
Correct Device?
BusID: check with /proc/pci .
Option "UseFBDev": ??
HTH
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