[solved] "waiting for X server to begin accepting connections"

vileperson · 2017-02-01 21:20:48

[This has been resolved (for me) by switching from Nouveau, to Nvidia, as mentioned in my second post.]

As of last night, When I boot up my laptop by itself (no dock) and try "startx", I get "waiting for X server to begin accepting connections". I waits for a few minutes and then I get...

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xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused

waiting for X server to shut down ..........
xinit: X server slow to shut down, sending KILL signal

waiting for X server to die ...
xinit: X server refuses to die

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This ONLY happens when it is NOT DOCKED. If I boot it up while it is on the Dell dock that it came with, I can run "startx" and it reacts as I would expect it to, starting i3, etc.

Hardware:

Dell Latitude E6530

lspci (when docked and running X)

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev c4)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev c4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev c4)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation QM77 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108GLM [NVS 5200M] (rev a1)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (rev 35)
0c:00.0 SD Host controller: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ600FJ0/OZ900FJ0/OZ600FJS SD/MMC Card Reader Controller (rev 05)

software:

This is an Optimus laptop, with xf86-Intel and xf86-nouveau installed and I am not doing any "early modesetting".
I have no login manager. I manually log in as my user at the console, and then manually run "startx" when I want to.

The last time I can remember running startx "un-docked" is Friday morning of last week, which was before the kernel update to 4.9.6-1 and the recent Xorg updates. There were other updates, as well though, so I don't really have a smoking gun at this point.

I will be happy to post any logs/configs/etc. that may be helpful to point me in the right direction.

Last edited by vileperson (2017-02-02 20:55:02)

vileperson · 2017-02-02 20:49:56

Update...

After poking around quite a bit looking for Optimus related issues, I came across threads about the "lspci hangs" lockup that is mentioned at the bottom of the Archlinux Optimus page.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus

I found that when DOCKED, I CAN run lspci in the console before starting x.
However, with my laptop by itself (not docked) lspci hangs, just like described in the posts I found.

I also found that if I DO use early KMS with the nouveau module in mkinicpio.conf, I cant run lspci or startx even when I AM docked. This further pointed me to my problem being between nouveau, the new kernel, combined, not playing nicely with my hardware.

I installed Nvidia and removed xf86-video-nouveau, and my problem has disappeared.

Should I mark this as [solved], since it's no longer "my problem", or leave it open in case somebody else has the same issue and is hellbent on using the Nouveau driver?

jasonwryan · 2017-02-02 20:52:50

Mark it [Solved] and if anyone else is having issues, they can reference this if they need to.

Also, please use code tags when pasting to the boards:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … s_and_code

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#1 2017-02-01 21:20:48

[solved] "waiting for X server to begin accepting connections"

#2 2017-02-02 20:49:56

Re: [solved] "waiting for X server to begin accepting connections"

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Re: [solved] "waiting for X server to begin accepting connections"

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