No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

[mluffman]

Was running 8.04 with KDE 4.1 and just completed the upgrade to Jaunty using the Alternate install CD. On boot, the graphical Kubuntu screens appears, but then instead of taking me to the graphical login screen, I get popped directly to a terminal login screen.

Any ideas on how I should proceed?

Thanks!

[robertgp]

Re: No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

Sounds like you're in the same position I was yesterday. I was able to resolve my problem last night by reinstalling the entire kde package. Its a bit like using a sledge-hammer to crack a nut, but hey ... it worked!

Have a look at the kinit issue on startup thread in this group for more details.

cheers,

Robert

[flarson]

Re: No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

Interestingly, what you did is not to reinstall, but to install. Somehow in the upgrade it did not install all the packages that kde depends on.

[mluffman]

Re: No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

Thanks, I assumed that was the problem. I'll try to install the packages and post the results here.

[mluffman]

Re: No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

No joy on the KDE reinstall. Still won't come up to the GUI login screen. I think at this point I'm just going to do regular install of the whole thing. I simply can't understand why upgrades have to be such a painful process. . .

[flarson]

Re: No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

If you have not reinstalled yet you might take the time to try
sudo aptitude install kdm kde kubuntu-desktop

[mluffman]

Re: No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

Did the reinstall. Comes up correctly, but now I have to deal with reinstalling packages, getting wireless to work, etc. This will definitely be my last upgrade. This is really too much work!

[petersk]

Re: No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

same problem here, and I did the apt-get install kdm kde kubuntu-desktop. and still nothing.

I got a couldn't find glx when I tried startx, so I ran envyng -t to install the nvidia driver, that didn't help either.

I just removed the envyng driver and now I'm trying
apt-get install nvidia-glx-71.


still get error on startx:

xinit:Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to x server.
xinit:No such process (errno 3): Server error.

any suggestions?
I have an old TNT card.
Kurt

[flarson]

Re: No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

The error yougot probably means that KDM is running, even though you can't see it. Try
sudo invoke-rc.d kdm restart
That should stop and then start KDM and put you at a GUI login. If you really want to run startx for some reason then
sudo invoke-rc.d kdm stop
followed by startx will probably work.

[petersk]

Re: No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

You were right in that KDM is running, since when I did that it said "stopping K Display Manager: kdm" and then started it. My screen just flashed to black two times and the returned back to the command prompt.

So... no joy :-( in getting the graphical log in.

Any other suggestions?

When I look in the KDM.log in var/log it shows at the end
xinit: no such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to the x server and
xinit: no such process (errno 3) : server error.

I'd copy more, but I'm literally typing it here on another machine since I have no graphical interface on the first. I should note that above that it has a message:
No Screens Found.
I've since removed the nvidia driver with envyng -t and now in the kdm log I get
" failed to load module" glx.

Kurt

[flarson]

Re: No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

I think I can give you some places to look. The KDM.log is just telling you that the Xserver shutdown. What you want to know it why did the X server shutdown, so look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. It will contain a lot more.

I think removing envy-ng was a good move and if any of the available Nvidia drivers have accelerated support for your card it is the 71. I suspect you may actually need to get an older version from nvidia, but I am not sure. If you see a line like "No devices found" in the X log, that is probably your problem.

Reverting to the xserver-xorg-video-nv driver with no acceleration may be your only stable option.

[petersk]

Re: No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

Ok, I'm looking in Xorg.0.log and see that (since my last try was to go into xorg.conf and make the driver vesa) it is trying to load /usr/lib/org/modules/drivers//vesa_drv.so

The "//" is not MY typo. Is it possible that that's the problem? When I scroll up, I notice a double slash on "extensions//libdri2.so" and "extensions//librecord.so".

Further up, that extra slash is on libdbe.so, libextmod.so, etc. Where would it being seeing a path with a singlae slash that I could "fix" (ie., remove it) and see if that helps?


On a slightly different note, when it's booting the intial "white on black" characters are HUGE, then it does the Kubuntu line in the middle with scrolling text, then back to nice sized "white on black" -- like it's not graphically set up right at initial boot. How would I fix that?
Kurt

[flarson]

Re: No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

The "//" is not a problem.Try it anytime and you will find it makes no difference. The fact of large fonts at the initial screen is not a problem. The use of a framebuffer to display the Kubuntu splash screen is of no real use and in fact it could be detrimental to your effort. I know the earlier Nvidia drivers would fail to load if the kernel had frame buffer support. I think that what changed in that respect is the kernel and that problem may no longer exist even with older drivers but I am not sure.

I have a computer with a TNT2
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15)
It is currently using the nv driver from xorg. That comes in the package xserver-xorg-video-nv and is most likely already on your system. I am attaching the xorg.conf file I am using that gets 1024x768 with 24bit color. You probably can not use it as is (although it might be worth a try) but it undoubtedly contains everything you need to get yours using the nv driver and running at 1024x768. That also gives you a known starting place for getting a proprietary driver to work.

[petersk]

Re: No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

That didn't work for me. Same response. My lspci tells me my video card is a NV4 (RIVA TNT) (rev 04)

This is killing me. I don't know why I'm having such a problem. I'm really kicking myself because 8.04 was working just fine, but I HAD to have the latest and greatest.
Kurt

[jlittle]

Re: No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

I'm really kicking myself because 8.04 was working just fine, but I HAD to have the latest and greatest.

Me too (kicking myself that is). 8.10 was working fine (after moving to KDE 4.2), but the Jaunty upgrade gave me X that crashed after logging in, in gnome or KDE. Attempts to reinstall stuff have screwed the installation further, so now I'm in for a install from scratch.

Regards, John