startx hangs system after mesa update

Lorec · 2025-05-23 02:57:40

I am on an HP Victus 15.
I usually use startx.

Here is my ~/.xinitrc:

xmodmap .xmodmaprc
xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults
xset -b
ratpoison

I have no /etc/X11/xorg.conf; I have an /etx/X11/xorg.conf.d and it is empty.

A while ago I tried to start Brave [from within an X11/ratpoison session] and it hanged with error messages relating to video drivers [sorry that's not more helpful, I don't remember more detail]. Fearing it might be breaking, I restarted.

Now running startx gives me

Current Operating System: Linux <hostname> 6.14.6-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri, 09 May 2025 17:36:18 +0000 x86_64
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=c90689f0-dd63-469e-9abd-708706dfdcfe rw loglevel-3 quiet
Current version of pixman: 0.46.0
Before reporting problens, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (-) probed,
(*) from config file, (==) default setting, (+) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "home/ <user> /.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu May 22 20:30:13 2025
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"

and an interrupt does nothing, I have to power off using the power button.

Running xinit fails with

Fatal server error:
(EE) parse_vt_settings: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (Permission denied)

lspci | grep VGA

:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA107
06:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Rembrandt [Radeon 680M] (rev 0b)

I tried commenting out lines 2 and 4 in my xinitrc [

xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults

and

ratpoison

] fearing they might be offending, but startx hangs just the same.

I upgraded my system [full upgrade] during the session before startx failed, and upgraded again after and retested.

I am pretty lost here, does anyone have any ideas?

Edit: pajamaman18 tracing a similar issue with Sway to today's mesa update prompted me to downgrade mesa, which fixes the issue. Brave too. Obviously not a permanent solution but a shim. Hopefully mesa fixes whatever the bug is.

Edit 2: xinit still fails with the same error even now that startx works again. Wasn't sure I'd been configured to use xinit in the first place. I hadn't.

Last edited by Lorec (2025-05-23 03:48:24)

seth · 2025-05-23 07:14:52

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=305727
Some posts there revovle around vmware, ignore those - but please post your (failing) Xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General

Galicarnax · 2025-05-25 12:40:58

I'm on Wayland (sway, Lenovo Legion 5), after latest mesa update (1:25.0.5-1 -> 1:25.1.1-1) starting sway also hangs. I can SSH into the host, but the console is frozen. Reverting to previous mesa version, I can start sway.

Last edited by Galicarnax (2025-05-25 12:42:24)

antonioleal · 2025-05-25 12:55:56

I also got same the issue. Had to hold mesa update. Ryzen 7 with RTX 3050.

root@Coral /home/antonio $ lspci | grep 'VGA'
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA106 [Geforce RTX 3050] (rev a1)

Last edited by antonioleal (2025-05-30 22:03:43)

bsdgrep · 2025-05-29 07:22:18

I also got this, froze also text consoles in my box, had to hard reset it to get forward. I only use startx

Downgrading mesa to April version from repo snapshot [1] and using pacman -U ./mesa.... instead of pacman -U file:///mesa... as suggested in downgrade Wiki [1] made the trick this time.

[1] https://archive.archlinux.org/repos/202 … kg.tar.zst
[2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Downgrading_packages

antonioleal · 2025-06-01 15:45:24

I ended up downloading the mesa source files from arch and compiling the PKGBUILD with "makepkg -s --skippgpcheck" then manually installing the resulting zsts

That fixed the problem.

seth · 2025-06-01 19:54:45

Probably not, starting with arch not shipping any mesa sources - and unless you used some older PKGBUILD, building the buggy mesa version locally will not cause different behavior.

pacman -Qs mesa

antonioleal · 2025-06-04 12:59:40

By "downloading" I mean of course through arch's own package build system. This indeed fixed the problem in my box.

seth · 2025-06-04 13:04:04

unless you used some older PKGBUILD, building the buggy mesa version locally will not cause different behavior

but if you effectively re-installed mesa there's no way to figure what was wrong before.

antonioleal · 2025-06-04 16:42:16

I can timeshift to the problematic versions and collect some logs from there, but someone must tell me what they want because I just started on Arch a few months ago (nice intro for me eh?). I can already say that disabling ssdm ( in my case I use kde) the machine boots normally... of course then only startx broke it.

seth · 2025-06-04 19:14:09

pacman -Qikk mesa

And after failing
system journal for the boot:

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

Xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General

The system journal can likely be reached w/o timeshifting, ("…-b -δ…", δ >= 1 allows you to access journals of previous boots) but will at best tell "what" but not "why" things failed.

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startx hangs system after mesa update

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