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From: Maxim Wexler <maxim.wexler@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: was Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver now X crash on eee w/intel driver
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:08:27
Message-Id: a0811460911061308t40dd7eacw8e54812dc204daab@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: was Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver now X crash on eee w/intel driver by Maxim Wexler
1 Oh wait, just rebooted, the message is still there but a few lines
2 below there is this:
3
4 *Starting D-BUS system messagebus . . .
5
6 which I remember seeing before but forgot to mention. I ran
7 dbus-daemon again as before with the same outcome.
8
9 On 11/6/09, Maxim Wexler <maxim.wexler@×××××.com> wrote:
10 > I assumed you meant me to run /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system. So I did:
11 >
12 > Failed to start message bus: The pid file "/var/run/dbus.pid" exists,
13 > if the message bus in not running , remove this file.
14 >
15 > file duly removed and re-ran above command which did nothng visible
16 > just returned the cursor to the next line. Is that the expected
17 > behaviour.
18 >
19 > BTW, overnight I upgraded to mozilla-firefox-3.5.1, and was surfing
20 > away this morning when the screen went totally white -- same story.
21 >
22 > Now my default desktop is down with non-functioning nvidia drivers and
23 > the mobile is afflicted with sudden crashes. I dug up this K6-500,
24 > 2.6.19 with firefox-2.0. analog riva video and it's humming along
25 > quite nicely :)
26 >
27 >
28 >
29 > On 11/6/09, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
30 >> On 11/05/2009 09:06 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote:
31 >>>>
32 >>>> Will see how it works.
33 >>>
34 >>> Not very well. About an hour after emerging the 2.9.1 drivers the
35 >>> screen went black and I had to reboot to get back to the desktop. I
36 >>> notice it only seems to happen while scrolling a window in firefox.
37 >>> I've left the unit on overnight with no problem. When I get back to
38 >>> ctrl-alt-f1. there is this msg repeated down the console.
39 >>>
40 >>> Gdk - Warning*** XID collision trouble ahead.
41 >>>
42 >>> FWIW, there is this tidbit in the boot console:
43 >>> [...]
44 >>> * Checking battery state...
45 >>> error: libhal_ctx_set_dbus_connection:
46 >>> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.FileNotFound:
47 >>> Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such
48 >>> file or directory
49 >>
50 >> Hm. You should have that socket. Do you have a system dbus running?:
51 >>
52 >> 3387 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
53 >>
54 >>
55 >>
56 >

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