[SOLVED] kdm is broken after package upgrade

Lyoko · 2012-03-16 14:16:08

I just upgraded my arch linux packages and my kdm stopped working..
i checked kdm log at /var/log/kdm.log

/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdm_greet: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libXi.so.6: undefined symbol: _XGetRequest

and i had this error at the log..
and while upgrading pacman asked me if i want to replace
these packages:

mach64-dri mga-dri r128-dri savage-dri sis-dri tdfx-dri

with extra/libgl for some reason..

Lyoko · 2012-03-16 14:40:58

btw, i'm using intel graphics at Asus laptop..

karol · 2012-03-16 15:00:05

Lyoko wrote:

btw, i'm using intel graphics at Asus laptop..

So why do you have

mach64-dri mga-dri r128-dri savage-dri sis-dri tdfx-dri

installed?

Lyoko · 2012-03-16 16:00:15

karol wrote:

Lyoko wrote:
btw, i'm using intel graphics at Asus laptop..
So why do you have
mach64-dri mga-dri r128-dri savage-dri sis-dri tdfx-dri
installed?

I don't really know, i just had them. i thought the display driver packages start with "xf86-video-*"..

I have been using Arch Linux for several months and I really enjoy this distro..

and i noticed that every few updates, main packages gets replaced by something else..
sometimes it killed the system, sometimes it didn't.

and i got no idea what the hell is going on right now..

karol · 2012-03-16 16:07:18

Remove / replace the packages, update the whole system.
libxi has been recently updated. Which version have you installed?

Lyoko · 2012-03-16 19:42:03

ran pacman -Syu a minute ago..
the upgrade didn't fix the situation...
i got latest libxi 1.6.0-1..

cfr · 2012-03-17 00:15:45

Did you remove/replace the packages Karol suggested?

Lyoko · 2012-03-17 12:06:56

yes those packages were already replaced by libgl as i mentioned..

and the situation got worse, I updated the arch linux at my HTPC.. same happens there!

karol · 2012-03-17 12:24:59

Did you run 'pacman -Syu' or did you use some other command?

Lyoko · 2012-03-17 12:48:24

yeah i run usually 'pacman -Syu'. sometimes 'pacman -Syy' before.

Last edited by Lyoko (2012-03-17 12:48:47)

Lyoko · 2012-03-17 18:47:11

just installed lxdm using 'pacman -S lxdm'.
ran lxdm, and got blank screen(tty7).

edit: I'm wrong, nothing happens when i press ctrl+alt+F7,
like tty7 doesn't exist.

Last edited by Lyoko (2012-03-17 18:59:14)

Lyoko · 2012-03-18 20:16:30

gdm, kdm, lxdm not working at all..

both my laptop and my htpc are not usable.. :S

what can i do?

toad · 2012-03-18 22:26:12

I have no intel experience but does your kernel line in your grub stanza contain nomodeset?

ewaller · 2012-03-18 22:29:43

Can you get to tty1 using ctrl-alt-F1 ? If so, log in and look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log for anything interesting.
How are you starting kdm? from your /etc/rc.conf DAEMONS, or from /etc/inittab as runnlevel 5?

What happens if you kill kdm and run startx as a user?

Lyoko · 2012-03-18 23:57:12

toad, my kernel line doesn't contain nomodeset, how does it affect xorg if i may ask?

ewaller,
i use kdm through /etc/inittab runlevel 5.
all tty's are useable and working :S

my /var/log/Xorg.0.log: (pastebin coz a bit long).
http://pastebin.com/4vPsMkq7

startx does works with no issues :S

ewaller · 2012-03-19 00:21:50

It took you 5 seconds to hit the power button

I thought your issues were with X, not kdm. I appear to be wrong on that.

I know this is not windows, but have you rebooted since the update to libxi 1.6.0-1 ?

Edit: Okay, I just started kdm by hand, and it worked just fine here with libxi 1.6.0-1 on an Intel graphics machine. Sorry.

Last edited by ewaller (2012-03-19 00:33:38)

cfr · 2012-03-19 01:39:57

For the record, I am using kdm on an intel graphics machine and I start kdm through inittab run level 5 and this is not an issue for me. Recent updates are causing some graphics corruption and the latest grub2 is a PITA but kdm is actually doing pretty OK (so far!) despite it all.

Suggestion: uninstall vesa, fbdev. This is a laptop, right? Detach any external monitors. Reboot. (Or shutdown, detach, restart if that will make it happier.)

What is your kernel command line? (From dmesg.)

Lyoko · 2012-03-19 10:06:59

ahh i removed both xf86-video-vesa and xf86-video-fbdev and had no effect. there were no external monitors..
the grub(1) kernal line from /boot/grub/menu.lst is:
"kernel /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda2 ro 5"

kernel command line from dmesg is:
"[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda2 ro 5"

i have rebooted every 'pacman -Syu' since the issue for hope

jobinson99 · 2012-03-19 20:15:25

not only kdm ,slim has the same issue , my laptop video card is ati.

and i found in the error log that the xorg couldn't start at all

"pacman -Syu" and complete system reinstallation didn't work.

libgl ?

Last edited by jobinson99 (2012-03-19 20:27:13)

toad · 2012-03-19 21:17:34

nomodeset in grub's kernel line disables kms which can cause X to fail.

Rather than having unusable boxes have you thought of purging X and take it from here?

cfr · 2012-03-20 02:29:34

If startx works OK, it doesn't seem like an X issue per se?

toad · 2012-03-20 05:40:46

Oh sorry, just found the line saying X works

Haven't found any info yet on how KDM is started, either rc.conf or /etc/inittab

Thinking "aloud": startx apparently works so I reckon KDM is called up as a daemon in rc.conf - I'd give the the inittab method a go.

prurigro · 2012-03-21 04:04:25

[solved the same issue on my box]

I had this error too and spent the entire day working to figure it out-- after updating and rebooting last night, gdm started failing and giving me "symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libXi.so.6: undefined symbol: _XGetRequest" just like kdm was in this thread, and while startx worked with fvwm, apps using qt, gtk2, gtk3, opengl etc were failing with a similar "undefined symbol: _XGetRequest" error or simply segfaulting (glxgears, glxinfo and some others). Someone on IRC pointed out that the situation was at least semi-unique to me (aside from this thread), and I started thinking of what was less common in my setup when I got the idea to try uninstalling freenx/nxserver- lo and behold, a reboot later and everything was working great. So that said, I'm hoping that by posting this, I can help others from their own day(s) of lost productivity, or at least save them from more of em (here's looking at you Lyoko)

pacman -Rs freenx removed the following packages (I'm not sure which one was the culprit, though I'd guess one of the X or NX related packages): expect, gnu-netcat, nx-common, nxserver, xorg-xmessage, xorg-xpr, freenx

Last edited by prurigro (2012-03-21 06:24:06)

ewaller · 2012-03-21 04:52:43

toad wrote:

Haven't found any info yet on how KDM is started, either rc.conf or /etc/inittab

lyoko wrote:

ewaller,
i use kdm through /etc/inittab runlevel 5.
all tty's are useable and working :S

Edit: At that point, I ran out of Airspeed, Altitude and Ideas all at the same time

Last edited by ewaller (2012-03-21 04:54:08)

toad · 2012-03-21 07:33:56

Bet you enjoyed the crash landing, though...

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