[gentoo-amd64] Lost ability to log in graphically

[gentoo-amd64] Lost ability to log in graphically

[Jim Seymour]

Hi,

About three weeks ago my kde desktop started to get distorted and slow reacting. I decided to go ahead and reboot the computer. That was the last time I have been logged in graphically. I have since removed KDE and the nvidia-drivers and am now just trying to get it working with the nv drivers and xdm/twm. I do get a log in screen, however upon trying to log in the screen goes blank and eventually comes back to the login screen. Since I seem to be the only one having this issue, I assume I missed an important entry in the elog. I have the modeline (no X at all without a xorg.conf) set to the parameters parsed by the video driver. I am using evdev for the keyboard and mouse (they work fine). I have googled and searched the mail archives to see if anyone else has had the same issue recently and how it was resolved. For the past three weeks I have come up empty. There are no EE entries in the Xorg.0.log at this point. I am running the stable version amd64
 that is completely up to date package wise. The hardware does not seem to be the issue as a gentoo live dvd works perfectly. Any ideas on how I can get this working again? The only worthwhile errors I can find is in the xdm.log are below. This is with a clean xdm.log, reboot, login attempt and then killing X with ctrl_alt_bkspc.

XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"
      after 167 requests (167 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
(EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard
xdm error (pid 5477): fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable)
XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"
      after 167 requests (167 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
error setting MTRR (base = 0xb0000000, size = 0x10000000, type = 1) Invalid argument (22)
XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"
      after 167 requests (167 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
xdm error (pid 5496): fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable)
xdm error (pid 4814): Server crash rate too high: removing display :0
error setting MTRR (base = 0xb0000000, size = 0x10000000, type = 1) Invalid argument (22)

Thanks for any help,
Jim

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Lost ability to log in graphically

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Jim Seymour <in2birds@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> About three weeks ago my kde desktop started to get distorted and slow reacting. I decided to go ahead and reboot the computer. That was the last time I have been logged in graphically. I have since removed KDE and the nvidia-drivers and am now just trying to get it working with the nv drivers and xdm/twm. I do get a log in screen, however upon trying to log in the screen goes blank and eventually comes back to the login screen. Since I seem to be the only one having this issue, I assume I missed an important entry in the elog. I have the modeline (no X at all without a xorg.conf) set to the parameters parsed by the video driver. I am using evdev for the keyboard and mouse (they work fine). I have googled and searched the mail archives to see if anyone else has had the same issue recently and how it was resolved. For the past three weeks I have come up empty. There are no EE entries in the Xorg.0.log at this point. I am running the stable version amd64
>  that is completely up to date package wise. The hardware does not seem to be the issue as a gentoo live dvd works perfectly. Any ideas on how I can get this working again? The only worthwhile errors I can find is in the xdm.log are below. This is with a clean xdm.log, reboot, login attempt and then killing X with ctrl_alt_bkspc.
>
> XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"
>       after 167 requests (167 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard
> xdm error (pid 5477): fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable)
> XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"
>       after 167 requests (167 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> error setting MTRR (base = 0xb0000000, size = 0x10000000, type = 1) Invalid argument (22)
> XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"
>       after 167 requests (167 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> xdm error (pid 5496): fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable)
> xdm error (pid 4814): Server crash rate too high: removing display :0
> error setting MTRR (base = 0xb0000000, size = 0x10000000, type = 1) Invalid argument (22)
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Jim

Weird report.

You might try booting with DRM debugging turned on and looking at
dmesg to see what's going on. I presume that you have a second machine
that you can shell in on.

To turn on debug in grub.conf do something like this, of course
dropping the modeset part if you don't need it:



title 2.6.32-gentoo-r2 MS=1, DRM=0x06
root (hd0,6)
kernel (hd0,6)/boot/bzImage-2.6.32-gentoo-r2 root=/dev/sda2
i915.modeset=1 drm.debug=0x06



This will create a lot of output in dmesg so you may not want to run
with it long term, but it's helped me find a few things over the last
couple of weeks.

Hope this helps,
Mark

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Lost ability to log in graphically

[Bob Sanders]

Jim Seymour, mused, then expounded:
> 
>  that is completely up to date package wise. The hardware does not seem to be the issue as a gentoo live dvd works perfectly. Any ideas on how I can get this working again? The only worthwhile errors I can find is in the xdm.log are below. This is with a clean xdm.log, reboot, login attempt and then killing X with ctrl_alt_bkspc.
>

Sometimes it takes just rebuilding the device drivers, which can be
found by the gine in the xorg-server ebuild - 

   emerge portage-utils; qlist -I -C x11-drivers/

Take that output and emerge the drivers.

Bob
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Lost ability to log in graphically

[Andrew Long]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Bob Sanders <rsanders@sgi.com> wrote:
> Jim Seymour, mused, then expounded:
>>
>>  that is completely up to date package wise. The hardware does not seem to be the issue as a gentoo live dvd works perfectly. Any ideas on how I can get this working again? The only worthwhile errors I can find is in the xdm.log are below. This is with a clean xdm.log, reboot, login attempt and then killing X with ctrl_alt_bkspc.
>>
>
> Sometimes it takes just rebuilding the device drivers, which can be
> found by the gine in the xorg-server ebuild -
>
>   emerge portage-utils; qlist -I -C x11-drivers/
>
> Take that output and emerge the drivers.
>
> Bob

I second this suggestion.

There was an update to xorg a few months ago that required a rebuild
of the drivers, but did not force it.  What happened when I did that
upgrade was that I would get the graphical login screen, but the mouse
and keyboard did not work.  Rebuilding the drivers fixed it for me.

Andrew

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Lost ability to log in graphically

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Jim Seymour <in2birds@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> About three weeks ago my kde desktop started to get distorted and slow reacting. I decided to go ahead and reboot the computer. That was the last time I have been logged in graphically. I have since removed KDE and the nvidia-drivers and am now just trying to get it working with the nv drivers and xdm/twm. I do get a log in screen, however upon trying to log in the screen goes blank and eventually comes back to the login screen. Since I seem to be the only one having this issue, I assume I missed an important entry in the elog. I have the modeline (no X at all without a xorg.conf) set to the parameters parsed by the video driver. I am using evdev for the keyboard and mouse (they work fine). I have googled and searched the mail archives to see if anyone else has had the same issue recently and how it was resolved. For the past three weeks I have come up empty. There are no EE entries in the Xorg.0.log at this point. I am running the stable version amd64
>  that is completely up to date package wise. The hardware does not seem to be the issue as a gentoo live dvd works perfectly. Any ideas on how I can get this working again? The only worthwhile errors I can find is in the xdm.log are below. This is with a clean xdm.log, reboot, login attempt and then killing X with ctrl_alt_bkspc.
>
> XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"
>       after 167 requests (167 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard
> xdm error (pid 5477): fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable)
> XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"
>       after 167 requests (167 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> error setting MTRR (base = 0xb0000000, size = 0x10000000, type = 1) Invalid argument (22)
> XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"
>       after 167 requests (167 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> xdm error (pid 5496): fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable)
> xdm error (pid 4814): Server crash rate too high: removing display :0
> error setting MTRR (base = 0xb0000000, size = 0x10000000, type = 1) Invalid argument (22)
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Jim
>

As a very curious and probably unrelated report I did updates on my
wife's machine last night. I did not reboot or restart X when I Was
done. When she turned it on this morning X didn't work for her.
Curiously it's the only nvidia machine here.

In her case gdm was not starting so it's likely not the same thing you
are seeing, but I got some messages that the nvidia driver was not
matching the kernel. The kernel wanted 185 something, the new emerge
had installed 190 something.

I masked everything above what's in portage right now for 185 + a
little and reemerged the drivers and it started working again.

- Mark

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Lost ability to log in graphically

[Jim Seymour]

Hi,

Thanks for the ideas so far. I had already tried startx and that fails and comes back to the command prompt. I have tried the re-emerging of the drivers and even gone as far as running ldd against X and another package I forgot the name of and re-emerged the packages that contained the files that it it linked against as well as re-emerging those packages. I too had run into the nvidia and kernel headers issue when I tried to downgrade the nvidia driver. That was the real reason I dropped back to the nv driver while I was sorting this out, I have all of the right pieces together to run the nvidia driver but want to keep that out if the mix for right now.

I have not tried the debugging setting or the new user. Off to try those now.

Thanks to all,

Jim


      

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Lost ability to log in graphically

[Dieter Ries]

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Jim Seymour schrieb:
> Hi,

Hi,

maybe not helpful, but doesn't hurt either: use df to see if theres
still free space on your partitions. I remember having problems starting
a windowmanager when theres no space available.

> Thanks to all,
> 
> Jim

cu
Dieter

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Lost ability to log in graphically

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

and you checked ALL permissions of ALL files (inclusive root dir) of /tmp and 
/var/tmp
?

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Lost ability to log in graphically

[Jim Seymour]

Hi All,

Problem has been resolved, however I am not positive what worked. As the situation was, I could not log in graphically with any user, root included. I had recompiled all x11 drivers as well as the kernel and every package I found /usr/bin/X linked against, recompiled hal, etc. All this and no fatal errors in the Xorg.0.log :-( On this final try I rechecked the config files for xdm, Xsession, xorg.conf and a few others and made a few tiny changes. I also went ahead and recompiled the x11-drivers again and one I had not recompiled prior to now ..... mesa. The problem was definately with one of the programs that was recompiled, however I can only suspect which one. Many thanks to all the suggestions. I did learn a couple of new tricks out of this. Now to get KDE reinstalled and go back to the nvidia driver.

Thanks again,

Jim


      

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Lost ability to log in graphically

[Duncan]

Jim Seymour posted on Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:46:28 -0800 as excerpted:

> The problem was definately with one of the programs that was
> recompiled, however I can only suspect which one. Many thanks to
> all the suggestions. I did learn a couple of new tricks out of
> this. Now to get KDE reinstalled and go back to the nvidia driver.

Glad you got it working again.  Thanks for the fix report. =:^)

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