6.06 - Xwindows wouldn't start

[dasa]

Hi,

I upgraded from Breezy to Drapper following the instructions (using Adept). Now, after reboot, the Xwindows wouldnt start. When I start it manually, KDE doesn't start loading and all I get is the grey screen with a terminal window in upper left corner.

Anyone can help?

Thanks many

karel

[guice]

Re: 6.06 - Xwindows wouldn't start

Yeah, seems what like what happened is this:

Adept got all the packages and then removed everything it should. Upon installing, it killed the KDE session which .. stopped the install!

Now I have a partially installed Kubuntu distro AND I can't seem to get apt to "continue" the install.

I'm in the same boat as you, too. Kubuntu is now farked. I can only get to command line. This isn't good.

[aussiedude]

Re: 6.06 - Xwindows wouldn't start

Seems there quite a few of us with similar problems. Back to Breezy for me.

[Fenyx]

Re: 6.06 - Xwindows wouldn't start

Guys, if you have other OSes that you could use to surf the web (or if you have the Desktop CD), you can try out some simple debugging steps:

1. check to see if KDM is running.

sudo /etc/init.d/kdm start

2. It it is running already, type "startx" to start X (um.. redundant?)

3. If it throws you back to the command line, it will show you some error messages this time. Try to take note of some lines and Google for it.

4. Alternatively, you could also try to reconfigure X. Stop KDM:

sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop

and reconfigure X:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

If you don't understand some of the questions, the default highlighted answers will do fine. Then restart X, and also try to reboot your computer just to make sure

5. If one of the error messages you get (after typing startx) is about FreeFontPath, try to edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and remove anything/everything that has to do with wacom or stylus, unless of course you have one.

I also experienced X troubles after upgrade and had to upgrade on the command-line almost all the way and these were the steps I took to fix it. (I guess it pays to know how to use apt-get after all...)

[aussiedude]

Re: 6.06 - Xwindows wouldn't start

For me kdm is running
I tried reconfiguring X, still no go after that (see my other post for details).
I initially tried installing from CD but I have no luck in creating one that will allow me to boot from it.

[Fenyx]

Re: 6.06 - Xwindows wouldn't start

Damn! I forgot what I did when my systems hung at /etc/rc.local, too. Did you try checking the contents of xorg.conf? If I remember correctly, I just forgot to delete some other lines that are related to wacom tablets in the Section "ServerLayouts" part of the xorg.conf.

As for the Alternate Install CD, have you tried the official release ISO? Other than that, I'm sorry but I'm clueless why they won't boot.

[aussiedude]

Re: 6.06 - Xwindows wouldn't start

I'm back on Breezy now. I think I'll give it another week or 2 and try again.
Jucato - Thanks for your help and suggestions.

[guice]

Re: 6.06 - Xwindows wouldn't start

I found out my problem.

kubuntu-desktop did NOT successfully install itself.

Adept apparently died somewhere in the update (where? no clue). When I restarted, I got a command prompt. I logged in attempted to start kdm with /etc/init.d/kdm start and it didn't do anything. So I ran the script with -x to see what it's doing ( sh -x /etc/init.d/kdm start ) and found out it's failing on an if [ -x /usr/bin/kdm ] (ish).

So, I checked it out, low and behond, NO kdm!

After hitting up the Ubuntu forums, somebody suggested try to see if kubuntu-desktop was installed. Guess what, it wasn't ..........

So, a sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop and everything started installing. 45 minutes later, a reboot and everything's back up and running again.

Finally .. Dapper installed fine, but Kubuntu desktop did NOT. As far as I can tell, everything is working as it was once again. After a pit of playing around last night, I hadn't been able to locate any other missing packages.

[Fenyx]

Re: 6.06 - Xwindows wouldn't start

Glad you made it through!
During my upgrade, apt needed to uninstall almost all KDE apps (205 or so packages), of course including kubuntu-desktop, in order to upgrade everything else. After that, I just reinstalled kubuntu-desktop and the rest of KDE with it. Then I got into some X troubles, which was solved by removing the wacom entries in xorg.conf.

Sorry I didn't ask about kubuntu-desktop, as I presumed that X was the only trouble you had. But shouldn't you have received error messages when you tried to run KDM, since it wasn't installed? Anyway, congratulations on finally becoming a duck!

[guice]

Re: 6.06 - Xwindows wouldn't start

But shouldn't you have received error messages when you tried to run KDM, since it wasn't installed?

You'd think, but if you look at the startup script, it doesn't print out any error message if it doesn't find kdm. It just exists quietly. This was the biggest issue.

Maybe somebody should update the init.d startup script to print out an error message if it fails to find kdm.

I didn't have any other X issues aside from Dapper not uninstalling nvidia-settings and replacing it with nvidia-glx. I figured that issue out pretty quickly though.

[dasa]

Re: 6.06 - Xwindows wouldn't start

Thanks all for advice!

Yes, installing KDE (kubuntu-desktop) helped!

karel

[pbmax]

Re: 6.06 - Xwindows wouldn't start

My X server is causing me problems to.

I upgraded using apt-get upgrade apt-get install (after editing the repositories) and now it boots to a console login prompt.
I got the error that the "Server was already running" and direction to

rm /tmp/.X0-lock

which works if I login as root. Then "startx" Then the monitor will randomly power down or everything freezes if I try to access the usb hard drive (which is unmounted and won't get off my desktop even after the device is unplugged)

I guess I'll search to see how to get back to breezy. suggestions?
pb

edit:

apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

fixed the problem

Edit 2:
It's happening again. The PC will sometimes boot into console. I have to
rm .X0-lock then
startX
then login at the GUI login. Then it works. But it doesn't do it every time.
suggestions?