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

[Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr.]

2010/12/20 Lukáš Jirkovský <l.jirkovsky at gmail.com>

> 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.
>

No I don't use the testing repository.