[arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update

[David C. Rankin]

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


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