[SOLVED] X won't start after update

CrashLog · 2013-03-18 19:46:08

I'm running Arch inside a virtual machine, with Virtualbox.
I ran 'sudo pacman -Syu' and let it install everything. It updated a bunch of xorg-* packages, among a few other things, and then I rebooted. Now it seems like X has stopped working. Normally I use SLiM for starting X, but SLiM itself isn't starting up. I tried 'startx' manually but that didn't work either. I can get into a normal CLI-environment just fine though.
Here are pacman.log: http://ix.io/4MK and Xorg.0.log: http://ix.io/4MJ
I notice the errors in Xorg.0.log but I'm not sure what to make of them.

I'm not sure what else to add here, I hope I'm not missing something obvious.

Last edited by CrashLog (2013-03-18 20:34:33)

Linkas · 2013-03-18 20:11:02

try downgrade xorg-server to 1.13 version because

[     9.363] 	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[     9.363] 	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 13.0
[     9.363] (EE) module ABI major version (13) doesn't match the server's version (14)

Last edited by Linkas (2013-03-18 20:16:35)

CrashLog · 2013-03-18 20:23:30

Okay, I ran 'sudo pacman -R xorg-server' and then tried 'sudo pacman -U xorg-server-1.13.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' inside /var/cache/pacman/pkg and here's what happened:

looking for inter-conflicts...
:: xorg-server and xf86-input evdev are in conflict. Remove xf86-input-evdev? [y/N] y
:: xorg-server and xf86-video-fbdev are in conflict. Remove xf86-video-fbdev? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: xorg-server: requires xf86-input-evdev

If I say no to removing one of those two packages, it just says "unresolvable package conflicts detected" and doesn't work either.

Linkas · 2013-03-18 20:30:02

First, revert old xf86-input-evdev package. Check which exactly version reqires old xorg-server

pacman -Qi -p /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xorg-server-1.13.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

Last edited by Linkas (2013-03-18 20:33:00)

CrashLog · 2013-03-18 20:34:23

Thanks, that's what was wrong. Reverted to xf86-input-evdev 2.7.3-2 and then after that also reverted to xorg-server 1.13.3-1. Now X works again.
Solved.

Last edited by CrashLog (2013-03-18 20:37:36)

Linkas · 2013-03-18 20:38:25

Great. You are lucky because you have old packages on disk.

bozzarch · 2013-03-19 12:21:15

I did this too, but was forced to revert xf86-video-vesa as well... xorg.0.log had also complained about the vbox module...

reverted xf86-input-evdev-2.7.3-3-x86_64 to 2.7.3-2
reverted xf86-video-vesa-2.3.2-3-x86_64 to 2.3.2-2
then reverted xorg-server-1.14.0-2-x86_64 to 1.13.3-1

...then off to tea with Zebedee

sidra · 2013-03-19 14:37:55

Thanks for the info I had the same problem...
However for some reason I didn't have xf86-input-evdev and xf86-video-vesa's old versions...

For anybody not having them as well:
Here is how to get them and solve the issue:

1.Go to https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/ and picked one of the servers with high delay,
2.Then open the mirror in a web browser and go to extra/<your architecture>/
3.search for xf86-input-evdev and xf86-video-vesa in the page.
4.download the packages and put them in my virtualbox's shared folder

From there copy them to /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ and run:

sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xf86-input-evdev-2.7.3-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xf86-video-vesa-2.3.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xorg-server-1.13.2.901-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xorg-server-common-1.13.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

which reverts xorg-server, xorg-server-common, xf86-input-evdev and xf86-video-vesa.

pappy97 · 2013-03-20 05:42:25

This worked for me, thanks! But why is this issue occuring? Going forward, do we need to just always not upgrade these packages? Thanks again!

CrashLog · 2013-03-20 16:52:44

I was able to update today without any trouble. I don't know what changed, but it seems like it was just a temporary problem.

grimpirate · 2013-03-21 04:06:41

I had this problem when I similarly made this update. I'm running Arch on a Dell Inspiron 1100, after the update X wouldn't start. I attempted to roll back to previous versions (as stipulated here and seeing as I had them in my cache) to no avail (gave up in frustration). Finally, I was able to get into X in two different ways:

First, I removed xf86-video-intel and installed xf86-video-vesa, when I rebooted I added the i915.modeset=0 parameter to the boot options at runtime in GRUB. For whatever reason X wouldn't load if I allowed the modeset to happen (bigger console area). This enabled me to boot into a slower X which I was still dissatisfied with, but at the very least it allowed me to isolate the problem as the intel driver as everything else is fully up to date.

Second, I created /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf with the following contents:

Section "Device"
   Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
   Driver      "intel"
   Option      "NoAccel"  "True"
EndSection

This also meant switching back to xf86-video-intel (instead of using xf86-video-vesa) for X. I tried both the "uxa" (supposed to be default) and "sna" options for "AccelMethod" and neither worked, only explicitly using the "NoAccel" "True" option allowed me to get X to function anew. In this manner I don't have to disable the modeset option during boot in GRUB and I'm still utilizing the latest intel driver.

The only inference (albeit perhaps misguided or ignorant) I can make is that something changed in UXA that broke how it worked before (I say this because this laptop is too old to support SNA).

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[SOLVED] X won't start after update

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