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 proprietary one?