On 2/7/23 04:35, u34@xxxxxxx wrote:
All,
Lightdm has been working fine up until pacman update today. After the
update, lightdm fails with a garbled screen. The journal shows:
Could be an overwriten /etc/shells.
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/77404.
--
u34
Thank you both,
But it seems the error is deeper than that. startx will not launch fluxbox
either (which has worked since 2013 when the server was built).
Command output say Cannot connect to X server?? Huh?
I use the nvidia-390xx driver, but it is built and quite happy:
$ lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia_drm 57344 0
nvidia_modeset 1318912 1 nvidia_drm
nvidia_uvm 1912832 0
nvidia 19505152 2 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset
video 65536 1 nvidia
ipmi_msghandler 81920 2 ipmi_devintf,nvidia
From the /var/log/Xorg.0.log, nvidia is loaded fine:
[ 500.265] (II) NVIDIA(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
"Default Screen Section" for depth/fbbpp 24/32
[ 500.265] (==) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (==) framebuffer bpp 32
[ 500.265] (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
[ 500.265] (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
[ 500.265] (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
[ 500.265] (II) Applying OutputClass "nvidia" options to /dev/dri/card0
[ 500.265] (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
[ 500.266] (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling 2D acceleration
[ 500.973] (--) NVIDIA(0): Valid display device(s) on GPU-0 at PCI:1:0:0
[ 500.973] (--) NVIDIA(0): CRT-0 (boot)
[ 500.973] (--) NVIDIA(0): CRT-1
[ 500.973] (--) NVIDIA(0): DFP-0
[ 500.973] (--) NVIDIA(0): DFP-1
[ 500.973] (--) NVIDIA(0): DFP-2
[ 500.974] (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce GTX 460 (GF104) at PCI:1:0:0
(GPU-0)
[ 500.974] (--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 1048576 kBytes
[ 500.974] (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 70.04.1b.00.70
[ 500.974] (II) NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X
[ 501.019] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): NEC LCD1765 (CRT-0): connected
[ 501.019] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): NEC LCD1765 (CRT-0): 400.0 MHz maximum pixel
clock
[ 501.019] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0):
[ 501.022] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): CRT-1: disconnected
[ 501.022] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): CRT-1: 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
[ 501.022] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0):
[ 501.052] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): DFP-0: disconnected
[ 501.052] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): DFP-0: Internal TMDS
[ 501.052] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): DFP-0: 330.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
[ 501.052] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0):
[ 501.052] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): DFP-1: disconnected
[ 501.052] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): DFP-1: Internal TMDS
[ 501.052] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): DFP-1: 165.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
[ 501.052] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0):
[ 501.055] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): DFP-2: disconnected
[ 501.055] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): DFP-2: Internal TMDS
[ 501.055] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): DFP-2: 330.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
[ 501.055] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0):
[ 501.058] (==) NVIDIA(0):
[ 501.058] (==) NVIDIA(0): No modes were requested; the default mode
"nvidia-auto-select"
[ 501.058] (==) NVIDIA(0): will be used as the requested mode.
[ 501.058] (==) NVIDIA(0):
[ 501.058] (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated MetaModes:
[ 501.058] (II) NVIDIA(0): "CRT-0:nvidia-auto-select"
[ 501.058] (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1280 x 1024
[ 501.060] (--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (95, 96); computed from "UseEdidDpi" X
config
[ 501.060] (--) NVIDIA(0): option
[ 501.060] (II) UnloadModule: "modesetting"
[ 501.060] (II) Unloading modesetting
[ 501.061] (II) NVIDIA: Using 6144.00 MB of virtual memory for indirect memory
[ 501.061] (II) NVIDIA: access.
[ 501.063] (II) NVIDIA(0): ACPI: failed to connect to the ACPI event daemon;
the daemon
[ 501.063] (II) NVIDIA(0): may not be running or the "AcpidSocketPath" X
[ 501.063] (II) NVIDIA(0): configuration option may not be set
correctly. When the
[ 501.063] (II) NVIDIA(0): ACPI event daemon is available, the NVIDIA X
driver will
[ 501.063] (II) NVIDIA(0): try to use it to receive ACPI event
notifications. For
[ 501.063] (II) NVIDIA(0): details, please see the "ConnectToAcpid" and
[ 501.063] (II) NVIDIA(0): "AcpidSocketPath" X configuration options in
Appendix B: X
[ 501.063] (II) NVIDIA(0): Config Options in the README.
[ 501.094] (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "CRT-0:nvidia-auto-select"
[ 501.158] (==) NVIDIA(0): Disabling shared memory pixmaps
[ 501.158] (==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store enabled
[ 501.158] (==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled
[ 501.158] (==) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled
[ 501.158] (II) Loading sub module "dri2"
[ 501.158] (II) LoadModule: "dri2"
[ 501.158] (II) Module "dri2" already built-in
[ 501.158] (II) NVIDIA(0): [DRI2] Setup complete
[ 501.158] (II) NVIDIA(0): [DRI2] VDPAU driver: nvidia
So what else to check on why lightdm, fluxbox and startx just stopped
working and why startx says in can no longer connect to the X server?
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
