[SOLVED] X doesnt work.

mms1313 · 2025-12-26 22:32:39

Originally, I had an issue with my usb c ports not being detected, so I decided to run sudo pacman -Syu to update. But then the vmlinuz-linux was missing, so I had to flash the arch linux iso to a usb drive and boot into it, then I reinstalled linux and linux-headers.
After rebooting the sddm wouldn't launch, so I tried running sddm manually by running 'sddm', where i got an error that it couldn't access the VT.
Then i tried running X manually and i saw this in the log:

[ 920.447] (EE)
[ 920.447] (EE) Backtrace:
[ 920.447] (EE) unw_get_proc_name failed: no unwind info found [-10]
[ 920.447] (EE) 0: /usr/lib/Xorg (?+0x0) [0x55e3bbdc5654]
[ 920.447] (EE) unw_get_proc_name failed: no unwind info found [-10]
[ 920.447] (EE) 1: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (?+0x0) [0x7fef2e23e4d0]
[ 920.447] (EE) 2: /usr/lib/Xorg (InitOutput+0x569) [0x55e3bbdea4a9]
[ 920.447] (EE) unw_get_proc_name failed: no unwind info found [-10]
[ 920.447] (EE) 3: /usr/lib/Xorg (?+0x0) [0x55e3bbc966d5]
[ 920.448] (EE) unw_get_proc_name failed: no unwind info found [-10]
[ 920.448] (EE) 4: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (?+0x0) [0x7fef2e227635]
[ 920.448] (EE) 5: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0x89) [0x7fef2e2276e9]
[ 920.448] (EE) 6: /usr/lib/Xorg (_start+0x25) [0x55e3bbc97d05]
[ 920.448] (EE)
[ 920.448] (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x10
[ 920.448] (EE)
Fatal server error:
[ 920.448] (EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
[ 920.448] (EE)
[ 920.448] (EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
[ 920.448] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/home/mark/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[ 920.448] (EE)
[ 920.450] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

Anything with X also doesnt work, does anybody have an idea of whats happening?

Last edited by mms1313 (2025-12-27 00:19:23)

seth · 2025-12-26 22:43:01

so I tried running sddm manually by running 'sddm', where i got an error that it couldn't access the VT.

Only boot the multi-user.target (2nd link below), get a cup of coffee (or milk, judging from your avatar) and then "systemctl start graphical.target"

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 7#p2279977

mms1313 · 2025-12-26 23:24:14

When i boot into multi-user.target and run graphical.target it flashes a few times before nothing happens, i think its the sddm that is failing. I dont really know what i should do or look for.

seth · 2025-12-26 23:25:48

Please post your Xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General and your complete system journal for the boot:

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

mms1313 · 2025-12-26 23:37:24

Sorry didnt think to check the journal, here it is:

http://0x0.st/PiAn.txt

seth · 2025-12-26 23:43:49

You've an https://devicehunt.com/view/type/pci/ve … evice/25A2 but you're not loading any nvidia modules nor nouveau.

pacman -Qs 'nvidia|kernel'

mms1313 · 2025-12-27 00:19:05

I think i solved it now, there was a problem with nvidia and nvidia-open, and i was confused because the nvidia package was taken off (i searched with https://archlinux.org/packages/) im not quite sure why its taken down and why i needed the nvidia-open driver, because the issue is only for older gpu's. But now its solved.

seth · 2025-12-27 00:24:28

https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-590-d … l-modules/

mms1313 · 2025-12-27 00:25:58

yes but my gpu is not one of the old ones and i have already read it.

Scimmia · 2025-12-27 00:28:55

See the note at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … management. Do that and you wouldn't have been confused.

seth · 2025-12-27 00:38:14

i have already read it.

but

im not quite sure why its taken down and why i needed the nvidia-open driver

is what you would have read in the link and for

because the issue is only for older gpu's

You needed to switch to nvidia-open /because/ you don't have an old GPU. For an old GPU you would have had to switch to https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&K=580xx
And because of https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … fd6c_15_15 that switch would have been automatically if you hadn't denied it.

mms1313 · 2025-12-27 00:42:09

But it looks like the nvidia package is gone from all the repos from arch linux (extra, core and multilib), and now theres only nvidia-open.

Scimmia · 2025-12-27 00:55:36

Which is EXACTLY what the announcement says.

mms1313 · 2025-12-27 01:09:17

i didnt read it well enaugh then, i thought that they made it so the older gpu's had to switch to nvidia-open and the newer ones could keep nvidia.

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