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djg1971

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Registered: 2008-09-11

Posts: 212

help! dbus error on boot, probs. w/xorg and nvidia too

Like many of you, I was hit by the recent upgrade to xorg-server-1.6.3-1 and nvidia ....18.31-1

Two days ago, I went through this cycle and managed to downgrade all 3 packages, then my system booted up again and X worked fine.

I made the mistake of reading (into) a posting from earlier today which made me think that redoing those updates and then trying a modprobe -r for nvidia was going to fix things...  So I did today's pacman -Syu...  I still had the same X problem that people have been having.  Only this time, attempting to downgrade has not worked.  Now on bootup there is a dbus error and a " [fail] " message, and now I cannot upgrade or downgrade any of those packages anymore due to file conflicts which I think are associated somehow with xorg-server. 

X will (obviously) not start, but trying causes odd error messages like:

" /usr/bin/X  line 2:  /bin:  is a directory "
" /usr/bin/X  line 3:  Desktop:  command not found  "

and they get worse from there.

Can anyone offer some advice on how to lift myself out of this morass and at least get back to a working system with the downgraded (18.14 & 1.6.2) versions of nvidia and xorg-server?  I assume a pacman -f might help, but usually that is to be avoided if possible, so I'm hoping someone has better suggestions.

thanks much

djszapi

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From: Cambridge, United Kingdom

Registered: 2009-06-14

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Re: help! dbus error on boot, probs. w/xorg and nvidia too

Hello djg1971!

Save the files before force install, and give it a try to it.

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