ubanksy
October 31st, 2010, 03:59 AM
I have just upgraded a mythtv server from 10.04 to 10.10.
Upgrade is complete, but X won't start - it drops me to the login prompt. Server is serving mythtv fine - other frontends (FEs) can connect, it's just the local FE that isn't working (because X / xfce isn't)
Here's the details:
Machine has been stable on 10.04 (running mythtv 0.23.1) using nVidia drivers. Just upgraded to 10.10 this weekend.
Upgrade threw up an error, refusing to start stating "E:Couldn't configure pre-dependend x11-common for x11-xkb-utils, probably a dependency cycle". I worked around this by running
sudo apt-get remove x11-xkb-utils
This removed a fair bit of X. I was able to complete the upgrade after this (This resolution, based on google was possibly my first mistake!)
After upgrading, I now get the following appearing during boot:
modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/modules.dep: No such file or directory
modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/modules.dep: No such file or directory
[ 13.764014 ] saa7164_downloadfirmware() no first image
[ 21.012088 ] starting firmware download(2)
[ 24.800090 ] firmware download complete
The modprobe messages appear to be related to the kernel and I don't think are the problem. The saa7164 messages are related to the HVR-2200 card and I don't think are a problem either. X starts and says:
"Ubuntu us running in low-graphics mode". I choose "Run Ubuntu in low-graphics mode for just one session" > "Stand by one minute while the display restarts" > "OK". X then drops to the console at <server> login:
I have since made quite a few changes with X / nvidia drivers including
-blacklisting nouveau
-upgrading nvidia drivers to latest nvidia.com ones
-editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf to use Driver "vesa" (was Driver "nvidia")
-removing /etc/X11/xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log
At last boot, it updated xorg.failsafe.log - read it here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/523044/
Any ideas on how to get X running in any graphics mode?
Upgrade is complete, but X won't start - it drops me to the login prompt. Server is serving mythtv fine - other frontends (FEs) can connect, it's just the local FE that isn't working (because X / xfce isn't)
Here's the details:
Machine has been stable on 10.04 (running mythtv 0.23.1) using nVidia drivers. Just upgraded to 10.10 this weekend.
Upgrade threw up an error, refusing to start stating "E:Couldn't configure pre-dependend x11-common for x11-xkb-utils, probably a dependency cycle". I worked around this by running
sudo apt-get remove x11-xkb-utils
This removed a fair bit of X. I was able to complete the upgrade after this (This resolution, based on google was possibly my first mistake!)
After upgrading, I now get the following appearing during boot:
modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/modules.dep: No such file or directory
modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/modules.dep: No such file or directory
[ 13.764014 ] saa7164_downloadfirmware() no first image
[ 21.012088 ] starting firmware download(2)
[ 24.800090 ] firmware download complete
The modprobe messages appear to be related to the kernel and I don't think are the problem. The saa7164 messages are related to the HVR-2200 card and I don't think are a problem either. X starts and says:
"Ubuntu us running in low-graphics mode". I choose "Run Ubuntu in low-graphics mode for just one session" > "Stand by one minute while the display restarts" > "OK". X then drops to the console at <server> login:
I have since made quite a few changes with X / nvidia drivers including
-blacklisting nouveau
-upgrading nvidia drivers to latest nvidia.com ones
-editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf to use Driver "vesa" (was Driver "nvidia")
-removing /etc/X11/xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log
At last boot, it updated xorg.failsafe.log - read it here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/523044/
Any ideas on how to get X running in any graphics mode?