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? The acpi error is most likely not fatale. First rm /home/user/.Xauthority, then run startx &> foobar.txt, and then put
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:30:59 -0600 "Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr." <jeffrey.parke@gmail.com> wrote: the content of that file into a pastebin. Also check that your partions ins't full.