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colbert

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Registered: 2007-12-16

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[SOLVED] X server not working after update

I have current nvidia driver and just did an update which had a lot of xorg-* packages. I rebooted and X fails to load, kicking back to tty1. I do what I've always done to try to get it to work

sudo rmmod nvidia
sudo init 3
sudo modprobe nvidia
sudo init 5

I can see my monitor going out of shell and "attempting" to get into X server, but it goes back into tty1 after a few seconds. I see no errrors in any log, I've checked errors.log, messages.log, dmesg.log, Xorg.0.log, you name it.

Using:

nvidia 295.33
xorg-server 1.12.0

I just did a scan on the hard drive, rebooted (several reboots now) and still no luck Whatever output would be helpful to show lemme know and I'll try to use pastebinit (doing this post from Win7 laptop).

Appreciate any help!

EDIT: GRRRR!!! For anyone who encounters this in the future, I made the silliest little mistake! I wanted to run some daemons as my user on startup, so I had added them into my ~/.xinitrc, but when I removed them I forgot to remove the "&" from my fluxbox line, so it was like this:

exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch startfluxbox &

I took off the "&" at the end and voila. Jeez, silly me

Last edited by colbert (2012-03-25 08:30:34)