On 20 December 2010 07:30, Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr. <jeffrey.parke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I did a big update on my main arch machine and rebooted, I can't start X > anymore. I saw that xorg-xinit and xorg-xauth as well as the nvidia packages > were upgraded. Startx gives me a blank screen and switching to the first > login (ctrl-alt-F1) shows a never ending "No Protocol Specified" message > which finally fails with "xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection > refused" and "Xauth: error in locking authority file /home/user/.Xauthority" > > I checked my Xorg.0.log file and I see this message listed: > > (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "nvidia-auto-select" (II) NVIDIA(0): ACPI: >> failed to connect to the ACPI event daemon; the daemon (II) NVIDIA(0): may >> not be running or the "AcpidSocketPath" X (II) NVIDIA(0): configuration >> option may not be set correctly. When the (II) NVIDIA(0): ACPI event daemon >> is available, the NVIDIA X driver will (II) NVIDIA(0): try to use it to >> receive ACPI event notifications. For (II) NVIDIA(0): details, please see >> the "ConnectToAcpid" and (II) NVIDIA(0): "AcpidSocketPath" X configuration >> options in Appendix B: X (II) NVIDIA(0): Config Options in the README > > > what could be the problem here? > Do you use testing? If yes, the nvidia drivers are not yet compatible with xserver from testing.
