Hi there,
This is my first forum post anywhere, so be gentle with me! Been using kubuntu for a couple of
years, but never been a command line tinkerer, so I'm effectively pretty much a noob. Anyway, here's my problem, as I see it:
For the past week or so every time I turned on my 7.10 system the boot process went a bit
wonky - it stopped booting at the command line before x had started. I was happy (though was
going to investigate and fix it, I promise!) just to log in from the command line and then startx,
which worked, but I was in single user mode, so couldn't log out from within x to allow my wife
to log in using her account - had to log out of x, change account and startx again. As i say,
awkward, but I lived with it for a week or so.
I (perhaps foolishly) thought that upgrading to 8.04 might fix it. It's made things a lot worse.
At boot, it gets to the same stage (this time flashing instantaneously three or four times as if it is
trying to startx, before returning to command line. Once i've logged startx produces:
[START]
hostname: Unknown host
xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "GasstonDesigned:0" in "list" command
xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name "GasstonDesigned:0" in "add" command
This is a pre-release version of the X server from The X.Org Foundation.
It is not supported in any way.
Bugs may be filed in the bugzilla at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/.
Select the "xorg" product for bugs you find in this release.
Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions please check the
latest version in the X.Org Foundation git repository.
See http://wiki.x.org/wiki/GitPage for git access instructions.
X.Org X Server 1.4.0.90
Release Date: 5 September 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux Ubuntu (xorg-server 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu9)
Current Operating System: Linux GasstonDesigned 2.6.24-16-386 #1 Thu Apr 10 12:50:06 UTC 2008 i686
Build Date: 15 April 2008 05:26:17PM
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri Apr 25 15:54:10 2008
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
FATAL: Error running install command for nvidia
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
waiting for X server to begin accepting connections
giving up.
xinit: Connection reset by peer (errno 104): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "GasstonDesigned:0" in "remove" command
[END]
I've had a look at the freedesktop.org bugzilla site, but can't see anything similar to my problems
for version 1.4.0.90. So then I went to /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
/var/log/Xorg.0.log:
(I'll post this as a reply - my message is above the 20000 char limit!)
and /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
[ditto]
I've no idea what's going on - I've googled around and found some slightly similar situations, but
found nothing that works. In desperation I tried (from a similar but definitely nvidia driver
related problem - not sure this is the issue in my case)
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-new && sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
but that returned something along the lines of "could not resolve host GasstonDesigned" (btw, my wife's father is a Gasston,
and he built the desk I'm sitting at, in case you were wondering...)
Anyone out there able to help someone who really shouldn't have tried to upgrade half way through his wife's proof reading of a friends phd?
help!
pentium 4 1.7 ghz, 512 mb ram, nvidia GeForce3 Ti200 rev A3
(yes it's old, but it works, normally - but using this knoppix dvd is pretty sluggish!)
thanks for your time in advance.
This is my first forum post anywhere, so be gentle with me! Been using kubuntu for a couple of
years, but never been a command line tinkerer, so I'm effectively pretty much a noob. Anyway, here's my problem, as I see it:
For the past week or so every time I turned on my 7.10 system the boot process went a bit
wonky - it stopped booting at the command line before x had started. I was happy (though was
going to investigate and fix it, I promise!) just to log in from the command line and then startx,
which worked, but I was in single user mode, so couldn't log out from within x to allow my wife
to log in using her account - had to log out of x, change account and startx again. As i say,
awkward, but I lived with it for a week or so.
I (perhaps foolishly) thought that upgrading to 8.04 might fix it. It's made things a lot worse.
At boot, it gets to the same stage (this time flashing instantaneously three or four times as if it is
trying to startx, before returning to command line. Once i've logged startx produces:
[START]
hostname: Unknown host
xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "GasstonDesigned:0" in "list" command
xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name "GasstonDesigned:0" in "add" command
This is a pre-release version of the X server from The X.Org Foundation.
It is not supported in any way.
Bugs may be filed in the bugzilla at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/.
Select the "xorg" product for bugs you find in this release.
Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions please check the
latest version in the X.Org Foundation git repository.
See http://wiki.x.org/wiki/GitPage for git access instructions.
X.Org X Server 1.4.0.90
Release Date: 5 September 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux Ubuntu (xorg-server 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu9)
Current Operating System: Linux GasstonDesigned 2.6.24-16-386 #1 Thu Apr 10 12:50:06 UTC 2008 i686
Build Date: 15 April 2008 05:26:17PM
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri Apr 25 15:54:10 2008
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
FATAL: Error running install command for nvidia
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
waiting for X server to begin accepting connections
giving up.
xinit: Connection reset by peer (errno 104): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "GasstonDesigned:0" in "remove" command
[END]
I've had a look at the freedesktop.org bugzilla site, but can't see anything similar to my problems
for version 1.4.0.90. So then I went to /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
/var/log/Xorg.0.log:
(I'll post this as a reply - my message is above the 20000 char limit!)
and /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
[ditto]
I've no idea what's going on - I've googled around and found some slightly similar situations, but
found nothing that works. In desperation I tried (from a similar but definitely nvidia driver
related problem - not sure this is the issue in my case)
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-new && sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
but that returned something along the lines of "could not resolve host GasstonDesigned" (btw, my wife's father is a Gasston,
and he built the desk I'm sitting at, in case you were wondering...)
Anyone out there able to help someone who really shouldn't have tried to upgrade half way through his wife's proof reading of a friends phd?
help!
pentium 4 1.7 ghz, 512 mb ram, nvidia GeForce3 Ti200 rev A3
(yes it's old, but it works, normally - but using this knoppix dvd is pretty sluggish!)
thanks for your time in advance.
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