[SOLVED] X bricks my System completely

r79 · 2017-03-19 18:24:25

//EDIT: Solution was to remove my second GTX980. Apparently, the nvidia driver/xorg/whatever does not support SLI out of the box.

Hardwaresetup: gtx980 in sli

Problem: X freezes, leaves me with a dead console cursor, does not respond to any command (ctrl+c, ctrl+d, ctrl+alt+enter, +backspace, +delete, esc, random faceroll), which leaves me to having to physically reset the system.

I disabled all my screens and removed them physically except one. I installed, reinstalled, removed and installed all possible xorg packages and all nvidia packages (except lib32-nvidia-utils which according to my local pacman does not exist (???)).

With the others screens attached, the only thing that happened sometimes was that one of the othet screens enabled itself and mirrored the cli.

This happens on startx, xinit -- :1 and X.

I'm getting extremely frustrated at this... I just want to have a running system after sitting on this for the whole weekend...

Last edited by r79 (2017-03-19 20:01:07)

jasonwryan · 2017-03-19 18:37:47

Post your log: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

r79 · 2017-03-19 18:43:57

It's quiet impossible, as neither do I have a selectable shell, nor a browser besides elinks. I could only make pictures with my phone, but that would take long and would not really be comfortable to read.

Last edited by r79 (2017-03-19 18:44:23)

loqs · 2017-03-19 18:48:20

List_of_applications#Pastebin_clients

r79 · 2017-03-19 18:49:18

Also, by reading the tuts again, I just realized that neither do I have an .xinitrc nor an .xserverrc in my home, and they're not created on reinstall

r79 · 2017-03-19 18:54:19

thx alot @loqs, here we go:
https://ptpb.pw/c_es

Edit: Found out I had to write the xorg config, did that with the nvidia-xconfig command. Result is that the console still freezes, but atleast I seem to can stop it with ctrl d:

https://ptpb.pw/RDJ1

Edit: the generated config: https://ptpb.pw/lZlv

Update: cp'd .xinitrc an removed everything until the last if. exec startxfce4 bricks the system again, as does the "startxfce4" in the cli and "X" in the cli.

Last edited by r79 (2017-03-19 19:33:39)

jasonwryan · 2017-03-19 19:33:55

r79 wrote:

I just realized that neither do I have an .xinitrc nor an .xserverrc in my home, and they're not created on reinstall

So X isn't bricking your system, you just haven't given it anything to do. An .xinitrc is not "created" on reinstall: you have to create it, and put something in it for X to do. Read the wiki page.

#edit: you posted at the same time. Paste your xinitrc and the log with startx using that file.

r79 · 2017-03-19 19:40:27

.xinitrc: https://ptpb.pw/twi3

As I can't stop whatever is going on here, there are no logs written

//e: tried the default one (/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc) aswell ( https://ptpb.pw/hGiK) same problem, but stoppable with ctrl + d, logs: https://ptpb.pw/2pZP

Last edited by r79 (2017-03-19 19:46:19)

jasonwryan · 2017-03-19 19:44:47

r79 wrote:

As I can't stop whatever is going on here, there are no logs written

What does that mean? Of course there are logs written: if you type 'startx` in a TTY, then X will write a log.

r79 · 2017-03-19 19:50:10

It means due to there not beeing any response to any of my commands, I have to forcefully, physically reset the machine. After the reboot, the Xorg.0.logs are empty, as are the xfce4-session logs in /home.

jasonwryan · 2017-03-19 19:56:30

Forget Xfce for the moment: just get X working. Follow these instructions exactly: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xi … figuration

Post the Xorg log from that session. If your machine locks up and you can't change to another TTY, can you SSH in?

r79 · 2017-03-19 19:59:05

Solved it by removing the second GPU...

I feel like there should be a note in the Newbietutorials that SLI needs some special settings (which I now can finally find out about by using a proper desktop-browser instead of elinks )

Thanks a lot for pointing me to the logs, where this is looking quiet suspiously

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