Havin_it Posted March 20, 2005 Report Share Posted March 20, 2005 Hi all, I was installing KDE 3.4 from thac's RPMs (see here for details) and something went badly titsup. After installing the base, later I rebooted and did urpmi --auto-select. That's when things went wrong - or precisely, after the further 500MB of updates when I then rebooted. During boot, I noticed one obviously worrying line: mknod: '/dev/dri/card0': No such file or directory Everything else seems fine (I think) but when X starts, the login box contains not just my user, but all the other system accounts adm, apache, bin and so on - root as well. Trying to login as me (or root), just bounces me back to the same screen. The 'Reboot' and 'Halt' buttons have no response. I can drop to shell, login as either myself or root, and do everything as normal. So I guess it seems like an X-based problem. Oh, and I checked for the /dev/dri/card0 file, and it is there. Can anyone suggest which files I should be looking at to try and repair this? TIA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted March 20, 2005 Report Share Posted March 20, 2005 After you log into the terminal type: startx or kde. What errors do you get? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havin_it Posted March 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2005 I'll go back and check. Gonna have to be swapping boots to get through this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havin_it Posted March 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2005 Okay, here goes (same for both commands): Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again. Please consult the X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help. Then it pauses for ~10sec and: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key giving up. xinit: unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno:3): server error. I also noticed two other things in the initial startup: 1) Starting mountd: No Mountpoints Defined 2) (This was just before X kicked in so hard to read): something about 'master raw device /dev/rawctl' (I think) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted March 20, 2005 Report Share Posted March 20, 2005 Fatal server error:Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again. Remove the .XO-lock file from /tmp and try again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havin_it Posted March 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2005 Results: _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: SocketCreateListener() failed _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTServerListeners: server already running Fatal server error: Cannot establish any listening sockets - make sure an X server isn't already running Please consult the X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help. Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information. then the same bit as before. I haven't looked at the log yet, but I'll go and do that now. I'm pretty sure X is running, because when I Ctrl+Alt+F1, the shell has the graphical trimmings. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace doesn't have any noticeable effect. The 'Halt' button does actually work now, though. (Great...) What about the login box with all the system users displayed yet? Or the files 'not found'? Any info/ideas about those? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havin_it Posted March 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2005 (edited) Here's the (WW) and (EE) entries from Xorg.0.log: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (WW) Option "XkbOptions" requires an string value (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory) (WW) LoadModule: given non-canonical module name "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a" (EE) Failed to load module "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a" (once-only module, 136034243) (WW) I810(0): Primary Pipe is B, switching off second monitor (0x800) (WW) I810(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xe8000000,0x8000000) (WW) Option "XkbOptions" requires an string value (WW) I810(0): Setting the original video mode instead of restoring (WW) I810(0): Successfully set original devices (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. Means nowt to me. Is X really the problem here? Where is the conf for the login dialog, for instance? Edited March 20, 2005 by Havin_it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe1031 Posted March 20, 2005 Report Share Posted March 20, 2005 Everything else seems fine (I think) but when X starts, the login box contains not just my user, but all the other system accounts adm, apache, bin and so on - root as well. Trying to login as me (or root), just bounces me back to the same screen. The 'Reboot' and 'Halt' buttons have no response. I can drop to shell, login as either myself or root, and do everything as normal. I am having this problem. If anyone could please provide some help I'd totally appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havin_it Posted March 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2005 (edited) Joe, are your symptoms exactly as described above? (Welcome to the board, by the way!) Edited March 20, 2005 by Havin_it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe1031 Posted March 20, 2005 Report Share Posted March 20, 2005 Joe, are your symptoms exactly as described above? (Welcome to the board, by the way!) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The only symptom I have is the one I originally quoted. Thanks for the welcome I'd love to get this problem solved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havin_it Posted March 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2005 Can you tell us a bit about what system you're running, and any changes you made just prior to this catastrophe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe1031 Posted March 20, 2005 Report Share Posted March 20, 2005 (edited) Can you tell us a bit about what system you're running, and any changes you made just prior to this catastrophe? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, I freshly installed Mandrake 10.1 (free DVD iso). Then, I added thac's URPMI database (along with his dependencies). Then, I ran urpmi kdebase (which successfully installed KDE 3.4 base). So, I CTRL-ALT-BSPC out of KDE to restart it (only, it didn't restart, it exited straight to the shell). Thereafter, any time I try and enter KDE from boot, the graphical login screen shows all users (including root and @root). Also, when attempting to login, the screen resets back to itself (the graphical login screen) 4 times, and then I fall back into SHELL. From there, I can login and startx successfuly. EDIT I meant I fall back into SHELL, not X Edited March 20, 2005 by joe1031 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havin_it Posted March 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2005 Hang on - you repeat 4 times and then all is normal? <runs off to try it out> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted March 21, 2005 Report Share Posted March 21, 2005 Type ctr-alt-f7 to see if a x session is running. Else login as root and type: killall X. If that doesn't work try: startx -- :1 That will start x on the second screen (ctr-alt-f8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted March 21, 2005 Report Share Posted March 21, 2005 Did you both upgrade to KDE3.4 from within an already running instance of KDE? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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