On Saturday 10 October 2009 12:25:41 am David C. Rankin wrote: > On Friday 09 October 2009 06:24:06 am Jan de Groot wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 12:53 +0200, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > > > > After the latest kernel update, I cannot start X for the Arch box I > > > > have that has an onboard intel graphics card. (Dell 280GX sff) The > > > > errors are: > > > > > > > > 02:31 nirvana:/srv/www/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff> grep "(EE)" > > > > Xorg.0.log > > > > (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. > > > > (EE) Failed to load module "i810" (module does not exist, 0) > > > > (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0) > > > > > > this is not important > > > > > > looking at you log file it seems that X did start just fine > > > > And it exited fine also, so it's not X related. > > Aargh! Must be the flu. What I'm saying is that when I boot, the box tries, > but cannot get to the graphical login (kdm3) and dumps me at the cli. I > then cannot get kde going with startx (it gives the same results). If X is > starting, then it is dying as soon as it starts. Strange?? > > vncserver/vncviewer will not even start kde. I get the error: > > "Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation." > > when I open the vncviewer window. What other logs might help? Thanks. > Here is what is showing up in the errors.log that shows the problem started with the updates on 10/8 [00:29 supersff:/var/log] # grep kdm errors.log Oct 8 21:45:09 supersff kdm: :0[1514]: Abnormal termination of greeter for display :0, code 127, signal 0 Oct 9 10:37:42 supersff kdm: :0[1544]: Abnormal termination of greeter for display :0, code 127, signal 0 Oct 10 00:27:15 supersff kdm[1799]: X server died during startup Oct 10 00:27:15 supersff kdm[1799]: X server for display :0 can't be started, session disabled Oct 10 00:28:28 supersff kdm[1826]: X server died during startup Oct 10 00:28:28 supersff kdm[1826]: X server for display :0 can't be started, session disabled -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
