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Darooma

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Registered: 2014-04-29

Posts: 31

Unable to boot arch after re-installing nvidia

My system is x64. I have Ubuntu installed along with Arch on a different partition. After having installed arch with some (probably redundant) nvidia packages, I decided to remove them by installing packam -S nvidia nvidia-uitls.

I had to remove mesa-(something or just mesa, I don't remember) and xf86-video-nouveau. So I installed nvidia nvidia-uitls successfully. Plus after that I installed xfce-settings because as I found out it should have resolved the issue of gnome-terminal. and I added this to xorg.conf:

Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

The bottom line is, I can't boot to arch anymore. Only standard label on the black screen shows up (kvm: disabled by bios) and nothing else happens, meaning it kind of "boots" but it doesn't boot further than showing that label. What can I do?

Here is a log:

[2014-04-30 12:06] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils'
[2014-04-30 12:06] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -R nouveau-dri'
[2014-04-30 12:07] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -R xf86-video-nouveau'
[2014-04-30 12:07] [PACMAN] removed xf86-video-nouveau (1.0.10-2)
[2014-04-30 12:07] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -R nouveau-dri'
[2014-04-30 12:07] [PACMAN] removed nouveau-dri (10.1.1-2)
[2014-04-30 12:07] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils'
[2014-04-30 12:08] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -R intel-dri'
[2014-04-30 12:08] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -R xf86-video-intel'
[2014-04-30 12:08] [PACMAN] removed xf86-video-intel (2.99.911-2)
[2014-04-30 12:08] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -R intel-dri'
[2014-04-30 12:08] [PACMAN] removed intel-dri (10.1.1-2)
[2014-04-30 12:08] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils'
[2014-04-30 12:09] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -R glamor-egl'
[2014-04-30 12:09] [PACMAN] removed glamor-egl (0.6.0-1)
[2014-04-30 12:09] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils'
[2014-04-30 12:23] [PACMAN] removed mesa-libgl (10.1.1-2)
[2014-04-30 12:23] [PACMAN] installed nvidia-utils (337.12-1)
[2014-04-30 12:23] [PACMAN] installed nvidia-libgl (337.12-1)
[2014-04-30 12:23] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] In order to use nvidia module, reboot the system.
[2014-04-30 12:23] [PACMAN] installed nvidia (337.12-1)
[2014-04-30 12:26] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S ttf-ms-fonts ttf-dejavu ttf-bistream-vera'
[2014-04-30 12:27] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S ttf-ms-fonts'
[2014-04-30 12:30] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S gnome-terminal'
[2014-04-30 12:30] [PACMAN] reinstalled gnome-terminal (3.12.1-1)
[2014-04-30 12:32] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S xfce4-settings'
[2014-04-30 12:33] [PACMAN] installed libxfce4util (4.10.1-2)
[2014-04-30 12:33] [PACMAN] installed xfconf (4.10.0-3)
[2014-04-30 12:33] [PACMAN] installed libxfce4ui (4.10.0-1)
[2014-04-30 12:33] [PACMAN] installed exo (0.10.2-2)
[2014-04-30 12:33] [PACMAN] installed garcon (0.2.1-1)
[2014-04-30 12:33] [PACMAN] installed gtk-engines (2.21.0-1)
[2014-04-30 12:33] [PACMAN] installed xfce4-settings (4.10.1-1)

and X (I'm not sure at what moment it appeared, it may be not related to this issue):

[   774.795] _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
[   774.797] _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running
[   774.799] (EE)
Fatal server error:
[   774.803] (EE) Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running(EE)
[   774.805] (EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
     at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
[   774.812] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[   774.814] (EE)
[   774.816] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

Last edited by Darooma (2014-04-29 22:28:27)

Rexilion

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Registered: 2013-12-23

Posts: 784

Re: Unable to boot arch after re-installing nvidia

Could you provide the full Xorg.0.log please?

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Darooma

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Registered: 2014-04-29

Posts: 31

Re: Unable to boot arch after re-installing nvidia

that was the full one.

Rexilion

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Registered: 2013-12-23

Posts: 784

Re: Unable to boot arch after re-installing nvidia

That's odd, the time counter starts at 774.

Maybe /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old please?

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Unable to boot arch after re-installing nvidia

That's odd, the time counter starts at 774.

Maybe OP doesn't start X automatically at boot?

Darooma

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Registered: 2014-04-29

Posts: 31

Re: Unable to boot arch after re-installing nvidia

anyway, I deleted that arch installation and going to reinstall it.