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Do you have an initramfs? |
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On Wed, Mar 7, 2018, 6:52 AM Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph@×××××××××××.at> |
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wrote: |
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> I think I broke something once again... |
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> Rebooting after a recent update caused my X Server to completely die. I |
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> faintly remember some x11-related packages being blocked on that |
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> particular update, but because I was short on time I decided just to |
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> ignore those at the time (note to self: bad idea, apparently). |
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> Now when I run startx, it complains about a bunch of permissions being |
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> borked: |
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> $ cat Xorg.0.log |
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> ---- 8< ---- |
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> [ 11.763] (--) using VT number 7 |
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> [ 11.763] (EE) |
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> Fatal server error: |
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> [ 11.766] (EE) xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 7 |
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> (Permission denied) |
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> [ 11.767] (EE) |
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> [ 11.768] (EE) |
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> Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support |
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> at http://wiki.x.org |
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> for help. |
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> [ 11.773] (EE) Please also check the log file at |
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> "/home/christoph/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log" for additional information. |
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> [ 11.774] (EE) |
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> [ 11.775] (WW) xf86CloseConsole: KDSETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor |
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> [ 11.775] (WW) xf86CloseConsole: VT_GETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor |
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> [ 11.775] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file. |
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> (I'll attach the full log) |
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> I don't fully understand what's going on there, but I figured maybe |
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> someone more experienced on here might have an idea as to what I did |
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> wrong this time. |
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> FWIW, I already tried setting the permissions of /dev/tty7 to 664, |
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> causing the X server to work, albeit with inputs not working (the log |
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> reveiled that it couldn't access /dev/input/event7 or something, so |
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> probably the same issue). |
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> My user's groups are: |
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> $ groups christoph |
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> tty wheel audio video usb users input davfs2 plugdev christoph kvm |
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> (Note tty, audio, video, and input. That's all X should really need, |
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> right?) |
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> My VIDEO_CARDS contains "intel i915" (for an Intel HD 4000(?) chip in a |
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> Lenovo X1 Carbon 1st gen). |
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> Has this broken for anyone else? Anyone who could point me in the right |
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> direction? Thanks in advance! |
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> -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Christoph |
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