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thrtx

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Registered: 2014-01-16

Posts: 15

[SOLVED] X wasn't starting with no output after upgrade...

... but I got it working in the end. I'm basically writing this here in case someone else encounters similar, and/or a possible explanation might be out there that I didn't find.

After upgrade yesterday, booting to console and 'startx' produced no output and no error logging.

Among other things, I tried reinstalling and downgrading xf86-video-intel but it didn't change anything.

I tried to reinstall xorg-xinit, but there was an error with pacman saying  that some files provided by the package was already present, so installation could not proceed. Sorry I can't remember the exact wording, but
/var/log/pacman.conf records the error as

[2015-03-27 15:50] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S xorg-xinit'
[2015-03-27 15:50] [ALPM] transaction started
[2015-03-27 15:50] [ALPM] transaction failed

It then gave a list of files, such as '/usr/bin/startx', and when I ran pacman -Qo on them, they turned up with no parent package. So I deleted these files manually.

This didn't help in itself, but when I was troubleshooting I came to xorg-server and had the same issue with the files being 'already present in the system', and this time I just used
pacman -S --force xorg-server

after which startx worked fine.

I'm not sure if I should add SOLVED to the title, because it's still a mystery to me...

Last edited by thrtx (2015-03-27 11:36:55)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] X wasn't starting with no output after upgrade...

There already is a topic ' Common Problems and Issues' https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130138

thrtx

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Registered: 2014-01-16

Posts: 15

Re: [SOLVED] X wasn't starting with no output after upgrade...

Cool, thanks for that.