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Eurkz

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[SOLVED] Xorg won't start anymore

So last night I turned off my pc with the 'poweroff' command like I normally do, and it got stuck at the "cleaning blocks" screen so after a few minutes I realized it was frozen so I held the power button until it turned off. this morning I go to start Arch and I'm stuck at the same screen on boot.
I see:
`Starting version 294.5-3 arch
/dev/nvme0n1p2: clean 2138167/62480384 files, 61457546/249919825 blocks`

I already tried switching to another tty and manually starting x. I get an error saying:

`(EE) Server terminated with error (1).
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
xinit: server error`

I tried reinstalling xorg and lightdm, but nothing I've seen on the forums have helped me solve this problem yet.
* i tried using a ix.io to show my journalctl but it just wasn't working , my apologies *

Last edited by Eurkz (2021-11-01 18:32:02)

Maniaxx

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg won't start anymore

Do you have an nvidia card? The 'nvidia' driver dropped support for Kepler and below recently.

Edit: Maybe try https://bpa.st for upload.

Last edited by Maniaxx (2021-11-01 17:01:36)

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Eurkz

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg won't start anymore

Yes i have a MSI RTX 3080

here is the journalctl -b :
http://ix.io/3DCx

here is the result i get from `startx`:
http://ix.io/3DCx

Last edited by Eurkz (2021-11-01 17:22:22)

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg won't start anymore

Does the Nvidia GPU use the nvidia or nouveau driver?  Please post the contents of Xorg.0.log and any Xorg conf files you have generated.
If using nvidia driver,  what nvidia packages are installed? `pacman -Qs nvidia`

Last edited by loqs (2021-11-01 17:18:31)

Eurkz

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg won't start anymore

pacman -Qs nvidia:
http://ix.io/3DCJ

Xorg.0.log:
http://ix.io/3DCE

Last edited by Eurkz (2021-11-01 17:38:35)

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg won't start anymore

http://ix.io/3DCB

pacman: option requires an argument -- 'b'

Did you mistype the command or have an alias or function defined for pacman?
Edit:
Also please do not forget the other requested outputs.

Last edited by loqs (2021-11-01 17:28:33)

Eurkz

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg won't start anymore

sorry that must have been a typo.
pacman -Qs nvidia:
http://ix.io/3DCJ

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg won't start anymore

Nov 01 12:35:33 chaos kernel: Linux version 5.14.14-arch1-1 (linux@archlinux) (gcc (GCC) 11.1.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.36.1) #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed, 20 Oct 2021 21:35:18 +0000

local/nvidia 495.44-2

nvidia 495.44-2 is for linux 5.14.15.arch1-1

Maniaxx

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg won't start anymore

And 'lib32-nvidia-utils' is outdated either. The system is partially updated (inconsistent). This has to be fixed.

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Eurkz

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg won't start anymore

So what, should I do? downgrade the nvidia driver or upgrade the kernal?

Last edited by Eurkz (2021-11-01 17:43:14)

Eurkz

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg won't start anymore

@Maniaxx Sorry I'm a little confused. I normally only run sudo pacman -Syu when I update things (and occasionally sudo pacman -Syyu), I thought that updated all the packages.

Maniaxx

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg won't start anymore

That's correct and should also fix your problem. Maybe your pacman mirror is outdated/buggy not providing all files. Activate another one (/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist) and try system update again.

Last edited by Maniaxx (2021-11-01 17:51:16)

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Eurkz

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg won't start anymore

I found this post from yesterday:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/72593

which seems to be the issue I'm running into, but it says the issue was fixed..

hopefully switching the mirror is the fix im looking for

Maniaxx

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg won't start anymore

5.14.15 is not in testing anymore. A proper mirror should provide it.

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Eurkz

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg won't start anymore

You were right it was a bad mirror,
I ran:
sudo reflector --verbose --sort rate --country "United States" --latest 5 --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

and I got the 5 best servers, but when I ran sudo pacman -Syyu it said there was no updates available.
So I commented out the first server on the list and tried again, now I got the kernel update and everything is working as it was yesterday.

Thank you so much !

Last edited by Eurkz (2021-11-01 18:30:43)