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Re: PARTIALLY SOLVED: no display manager for 3 days



On 07/24/2014 09:00 PM, Alan Simpson-Vlach wrote:
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?

Thanks to the list, I now have X working again.
And it was a video issue rather than anything to do with systemd.

As suggested, I did the following:

+ deleted the proprietary nvidia glx libs
+ deleted /etc/X11/xorg.conf
+ installed xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

But now I can only get 1024x768 resolution;
I have for several years been running 1600x1200 using Debian on this monitor and video card.

You might wait until they get the nvidia packages sorted out.
If you run dpkg -l |grep nvidia you'll get the list of installed nvidia packages, which have to be removed prior to using the run file, should you decide to go that route, ...which I did. I'm usually not one to go outside the repos, but with my setup I really needed my nvidia driver intact. :) Ric



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