startx error weird

seriouslycgi · 2010-05-06 11:23:50

i get fatal errors when i log in as new users since updating

i created a user a few days ago and that user is fine but now when i create new users i cant get x to work

so i can startx as root and as 1 user but no others (and they are all in the same groups, paths etc)

orschiro · 2010-05-06 11:49:55

Does the newly created user have a .xinitrc in their home directory?

Please poste the error message. "Isn't working" is not really meaningful.

Regards

Last edited by orschiro (2010-05-06 11:50:31)

seriouslycgi · 2010-05-06 12:06:49

it just stops and goes back to commandline yes they have .xinitrc.

its not really showing any errors, just stops loading.

i was wondering if its something to do with software updates or creating users.

Last edited by seriouslycgi (2010-05-06 12:49:41)

seriouslycgi · 2010-05-06 12:19:19

the .Xauthority file contains nothing on any new users i create, but the one user that does work says

myhost0MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1NHٳQ9^]0;root@myhost:~[root@myhost ~]#

is this the problem?

Runiq · 2010-05-06 12:24:20

(EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found

Do you have the right driver installed?

seriouslycgi · 2010-05-06 12:27:57

yes weird huh i get the nvidia logo with users root and xbmc (username) but not with anything new i create. those two accounts are fine, but anything new will not let X start.

[root@myhost ~]# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder62)  Thu Jan 28 02:31T 2010

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen         "Default Screen" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "keyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Device"
   Identifier   "Card_tv"
   Driver       "nvidia"
   Option       "TVOutFormat" "COMPOSITE" 
   Option       "TVStandard" "PAL-B"
   Option       "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
   Identifier   "tv"
   HorizSync    30-50
   VertRefresh  60
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Default Screen"
    Device         "Device0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Modes      "nvidia-auto-select"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
   Identifier   "Screen_tv"
   Device       "Card_tv"
   Monitor      "tv"
   DefaultDepth 16
   SubSection   "Display"
   Depth        16
   Modes        "800x600" "640x480"
   EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
   Identifier   "tv"
   Screen       0  "Screen_tv" 0 0
   InputDevice  "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
   InputDevice  "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Last edited by seriouslycgi (2010-05-06 12:33:37)

seriouslycgi · 2010-05-06 12:48:47

Runiq wrote:

(EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found
Do you have the right driver installed?

actually that error log was from when i tried to remove xorg and let it autodetect so nvidia wasnt loading the real error log is here that loads nvidia from the xorg.conf i posted above(this is as a new user, fails to startx):

http://pastebin.com/zaeyUNEA

and this is the log from my current session (as root) in x11 using chromium browser

http://pastebin.com/XZQ761Cn

Last edited by seriouslycgi (2010-05-06 12:53:27)

seriouslycgi · 2010-05-08 00:10:25

weird i deleted some files as root to make it work
backup xorg.conf

 cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf* /root/

then

 rm /home/$user/.X* /home/$user/.x* 
 rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf*

then as the user

 startx

then i exit X and replaced my xorg.conf (i backed up)

 cp /root/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf

now all is working :S

Last edited by seriouslycgi (2010-05-08 00:11:20)

cesura · 2010-05-08 02:15:05

[SOLVED] to the beginning of the title please

I'm guessing it was just some incorrect lines of code (probably config lines) in one of those files and it was having issues.

Arch Linux

#1 2010-05-06 11:23:50

startx error weird

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Re: startx error weird

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Re: startx error weird

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