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Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr.

20 Dec 2010 20 Dec '10

6:30 a.m.

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:

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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?

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Øyvind Heggstad

20 Dec 20 Dec

3:56 p.m.

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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:

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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." wrote: the content of that file into a pastebin. Also check that your partions ins't full.

Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr.

5:18 p.m.

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Ok this is weird. I removed the ~/.Xauthority file and pointed startx to startup.txt and it just started up fine. wierd 2010/12/20 Øyvind Heggstad

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On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:30:59 -0600 "Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr." wrote:

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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 the content of that file into a pastebin. Also check that your partions ins't full.

Lukáš Jirkovský

4:08 p.m.

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On 20 December 2010 07:30, Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr. wrote:

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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.

Ionuț Bîru

4:10 p.m.

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On 12/20/2010 06:08 PM, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote:

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On 20 December 2010 07:30, Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr. wrote:

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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.

what are you talking about? xorg-server from testing is from 1.9 series, therefor supported. I suggest to look at nvnews forum and report it there. I saw that some models have that bug. -- Ionuț

Lukáš Jirkovský

4:18 p.m.

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On 20 December 2010 17:10, Ionuț Bîru wrote:

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On 12/20/2010 06:08 PM, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote:

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Do you use testing? If yes, the nvidia drivers are not yet compatible with xserver from testing.

what are you talking about?

xorg-server from testing is from 1.9 series, therefor supported.

I suggest to look at nvnews forum and report it there. I saw that some models have that bug.

-- Ionuț

Nevermind. I read "plans for Xorg/Mesa- closed drivers may break for some time in testing" in arch-dev-public and thought it's already there. Lukas

Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr.

4:32 p.m.

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2010/12/20 Lukáš Jirkovský

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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

On 20 December 2010 07:30, Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr. wrote: packages

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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.

No I don't use the testing repository.

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