[arch-general] updating xorg packages and nvidia packages, now x doesn't start

[Lukáš Jirkovský]

On 20 December 2010 07:30, Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr.
<jeffrey.parke at gmail.com> 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.