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DStein

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From: Buffalo, NY USA

Registered: 2009-11-27

Posts: 60

[SOLVED] udev 162-1 kills KDE 4.5.1 (Nvidia)

Laptop 1: Core i7 / Nvidia GTS 360M (driver 256.53)
Laptop 2: Core i3 / Intel 4500MHD

Updating udev seems to have gone smooth for laptop 2, but for laptop 1 I am no longer able to start X.  Downgrading to udev 161-2 resolves the issue.  While I am improving, I'm still not really up to par when it comes to troubleshooting.  I am wondering if there is anything in particular that I could do or report which would help with the diagnosis.  All I have done so far is downgrade udev and reboot.  So the machine is still pretty fresh since everything went awry.

Last edited by DStein (2010-09-13 21:57:51)

lashni

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Registered: 2010-07-16

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED] udev 162-1 kills KDE 4.5.1 (Nvidia)

Yeah, udev 162-1 update nailed my network, sound and nvidia driver as well. Downgraded until I've got time to work on it.

As to diagnosing your problem starting X, I'd start with looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and seeing what relevant errors are thrown. Checking whether the nvidia module is loaded with lsmod and trying to manually load it with modprobe would probably be the next step. All depends on what the log says though.

Last edited by lashni (2010-09-08 14:15:06)

DStein

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From: Buffalo, NY USA

Registered: 2009-11-27

Posts: 60

Re: [SOLVED] udev 162-1 kills KDE 4.5.1 (Nvidia)

There does not seem to be anything useful in Xorg.0.log at all.  I did see one line that simply stated X could not be started on display 0 in syslog.log (I think).  I went through all of the log files looking for anything relevant to Xorg, udev, and nvidia but didn't find anything that seemed related to the failure.

lashni

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Registered: 2010-07-16

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Re: [SOLVED] udev 162-1 kills KDE 4.5.1 (Nvidia)

Just tried to duplicate the problem quickly before I crashed for the night. Udev update went smoothly this time, sound/video/network are all fine. Only difference was that I updated udev from the console without X running and updated udev alone (pacman -S udev) as opposed to the previous system update. I rebooted after update and everything was working fine.

DStein

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From: Buffalo, NY USA

Registered: 2009-11-27

Posts: 60

Re: [SOLVED] udev 162-1 kills KDE 4.5.1 (Nvidia)

I really want to give that a shot...  but I'm leaving first thing in the morning for Ohio LinuxFest and really can't be without this unit.  Unless a new package is pushed to stable, I'll have to wait until Sunday evening to go further with this.

DStein

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From: Buffalo, NY USA

Registered: 2009-11-27

Posts: 60

Re: [SOLVED] udev 162-1 kills KDE 4.5.1 (Nvidia)

Only difference was that I updated udev from the console without X running and updated udev alone (pacman -S udev) as opposed to the previous system update. I rebooted after update and everything was working fine.

Yep, this worked for me as well.  Not exactly the most elegant way to update udev, but it did work.  Thank you for the suggestion.