Re: no display manager for 3 days
On Thu 24 Jul 2014 at 10:37:34 +0000, Alan Simpson-Vlach wrote:
> Ever since a dist-upgrade that installed systemd and removed
> sysvinit-core, I have been unable to get a display manager.
The dist-upgrade would have more than this. You are using testing?
> I have tried slim, lightdm, and even installed gdm3. Nothing works.
>
> # /etc/init.d/slim/start
>
> gives no error messages, but
>
> # systemctl status slim.service
>
> tells me that slim exited with status=1
>
> The pertinent line appears to be
>
> /usr/bin/X11/X: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so: undefined symbol: LoadExtension
>
> which is similar to what happens if I try xinit directly.
>
> Trying lightdm I get
>
> lightdm.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
>
> I think this is a systemd problem, but maybe it's a video driver problem?
> I'm using the proprietary nvidia driver, which has been recompiled multiple times now.
> Help, please. I'd kinda like to have a working X11 again.
If xinit or startx will not bring up X it seems more like a video
problem to me. How do feel about using the nouveau driver if you cannot
fix the proprietry one?
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