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ur25

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Registered: 2008-10-06

Posts: 13

kernel26-2.6.27.7-1 & xorg-server-1.5.3-2 upgrade problem

Hi everyone!

Ok here is what just happened to me, I did a pacman -Syu as usual to update my system and downloaded kernel26-2.6.27.7-1 and xorg-server-1.5.3-2 as part of the update. Then I installed the 180.08-1 nvidia driver in hope that It would solve my firefox lag issue (see this post -> http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 3#p455213).

After doing all this, I started X and found out that the keyboard and mouse were not responding anymore. Everything was fine in console though. So I rebooted the system using the button and had a Kernel panic : kernel panic not syncing Fatal exception in interrupt.

I then booted with the archlinux livecd, chrooted in my disk and downgraded the kernel using the one in my cache (/var/cache/pacman/pkg/kernel26-2.6.27.6-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz). It booted fine but I still could not use my mouse and keyboard in X. I did nvidia-xconfig but it did not solve the issue. I had to downgrade xserver too by downloading xorg-server-1.4.2-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz from archlinux.umflint.edu/extra/os/i686.

Everything is now back to normal but I am a little bit in shock... Did I do something wrong during the update process? Why was the kernel and xorg-server package not working? How do I prevent this type of situations from reoccurring? Is there anyone else that had this problem or have more information about all this?

Thank you

Edit : here is more information about my system

Linux 2.6.27-ARCH #1 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600M GT (rev a1)

Last edited by ur25 (2008-12-01 21:01:18)

mutlu_inek

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Registered: 2006-11-18

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Re: kernel26-2.6.27.7-1 & xorg-server-1.5.3-2 upgrade problem

There are many threads opened during the last 24 hours that will give you answers.

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