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cfmg15

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Registered: 2017-09-23

Posts: 10

[SOLVED] xorg Not Working After Upgrade

I ran pacman -Syu yesterday and rebooted my machine and since then xorg no longer seems to be working.

I boot my computer and run startx, the screen goes black, and then I'm returned to the terminal with the following message :

X.Org X Server 1.19.5
Release Date: 2017-10-12
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 4.9.54-1-lts x86_64 
Current Operating System: Linux arch-laptop 4.13.12-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Nov 8 11:54:06 CET 2017 x86_64
Kernel command line: \vmlinuz-linux ro root=UUID=01c7ec7c-1990-4792-9fb3-f01b260a4cb9 initrd=\initramfs-linux.img
Build Date: 12 October 2017  09:59:53PM
 
Current version of pixman: 0.34.0
	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/home/kevin/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Nov 18 08:42:03 2017
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not permitted)
xinit: connection to X server lost

waiting for X server to shut down .(II) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.

The error "xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not permitted)" only appears the first time I try startx after rebooting, if I try again that message doesn't appear.

The full log is at https://pastebin.com/4hk6RN43

I guess everything is running find since the server is terminating successfully but I don't understand why it's not running my DE like before the upgrade.  My .xinitrc is:

export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Budgie:GNOME
exec budgie-desktop

Last edited by cfmg15 (2017-11-19 14:35:25)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,945

Re: [SOLVED] xorg Not Working After Upgrade

[    31.375] (II) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.

It's not the X11 server, but your session (check the journal whether and why budgie crashed)
Also that's no sane xinitrc: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit#xinitrc - check the second note.

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cfmg15

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Registered: 2017-09-23

Posts: 10

Re: [SOLVED] xorg Not Working After Upgrade

Looking at the journal it was related to GNOME, after some digging around I realized it was the same issue described in this thread - https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=230642

I'd forgotten I'd installed budgie-desktop-git from AUR so it wasn't upgraded by pacman -Syu.  Replacing with the latest version of budgie-desktop got things working again. 

Thanks for pointing that out about the xinitrc.  I had just used what is on the Budgie Desktop wiki page without any issues but I've now updated the file to reflect the instructions on the xinitrc page.