Startx broken

naarter · 04-20-2022, 11:58 AM

I installed slackpkg plus and unchecked unchecked nearly every mirror and copied alienbobs suggested config for slackpkgplus. Ran several update,upgrade and gpg commands to get it working and then I saw a new kernel was installed. So I replaced the old file with the new one and now start x is broken again and won't start. I am using /X11/xorg.conf.d as my as xorg path. I receive a "

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nal information. (EE) (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing lof file.tio
Xinit: giving up
Xinit: unable to connect to X server: Bad file discriptor
Xinit: server error
(II) LOADMODULE: 'FBDEV'
...WARNING COULDN'T LOAD 'FBDEV'
...(WW) WARNING, COULDN'T OPEN MODULE FBDEV
....vesa: driver for modsetting
.... (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: no such file or directory
(WW) Falling back to old prove method for modsetting
(EE) OPEN /dev/dri/card0: no file or directory
vesa: Refusing to run on UEFI
(EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config setting

I know it has to do with the kernel and xorg conf files. What should i do?

naarter · 04-20-2022, 12:22 PM

I think it has something to do with the kernel and files in /etc/x11/xinit

jkh2cpu · 04-20-2022, 12:30 PM

Who makes your GPU? At least Nvidia requires a rebuild to run with a new kernel...

Petri Kaukasoina · 04-20-2022, 12:37 PM

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  Be sure to upgrade your initrd after upgrading the kernel packages.
  If you use lilo to boot your machine, be sure lilo.conf points to the correct
  kernel and initrd and run lilo as root to update the bootloader.
  If you use elilo to boot your machine, you should run eliloconfig to copy the
  kernel and initrd to the EFI System Partition.

naarter · 04-20-2022, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Petri Kaukasoina

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  Be sure to upgrade your initrd after upgrading the kernel packages.
  If you use lilo to boot your machine, be sure lilo.conf points to the correct
  kernel and initrd and run lilo as root to update the bootloader.
  If you use elilo to boot your machine, you should run eliloconfig to copy the
  kernel and initrd to the EFI System Partition.

initrd -- command not found
Eliloconfig -- no EFI system partition mounted on /boot/EFI

My /boot/efi is empty and in /boot there is config-generic-5.15.27.x86 and the respective huge keenel

naarter · 04-20-2022, 01:23 PM

I am also thinking of using efibootmgr.

Petri Kaukasoina · 04-20-2022, 01:52 PM

What does

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uname -r

tell you? My guess is it's not 5.15.27. The primary problem is that you upgraded stuff without reading the ChangeLog.txt first. The text in post #4 was from ChangeLog.txt. Because of that you did not run eliloconfig. Now you are probably running an old kernel (5.15.19 ?) but without corresponding modules.

naarter · 04-20-2022, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Petri Kaukasoina

What does

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uname -r

tell you? My guess is it's not 5.15.27. The primary problem is that you upgraded stuff without reading the ChangeLog.txt first. The text in post #4 was from ChangeLog.txt. Because of that you did not run eliloconfig. Now you are probably running an old kernel (5.15.19 ?) but without corresponding modules.

5.15.19

Can I fix this?

Petri Kaukasoina · 04-20-2022, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by naarter

initrd -- command not found

This is the Slackware Security Advisory for the kernel 5.15.27 update: http://www.slackware.com/security/vi...ecurity.691827 You can find the command line to rebuild the initrd there, in the "Installation instructions".

Petri Kaukasoina · 04-20-2022, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by naarter

5.15.19

Can I fix this?

Try to mount /boot/efi and then run eliloconfig (if you are using elilo).

Petri Kaukasoina · 04-20-2022, 02:37 PM

It it does not work out, you could fetch the original modules package and downgrade to that:

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wget https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware64-15.0/slackware64/a/kernel-modules-5.15.19-x86_64-2.txz
upgradepkg kernel-modules-5.15.19-x86_64-2.txz

The reboot and do the upgrade again according to instructions.

naarter · 04-20-2022, 04:05 PM

I changed certain options on my bios and now it's not booting. I have a t460, what are some issues related to this? UEFI?

naarter · 04-20-2022, 04:07 PM

I tried addressing the bios by changing some settings and now I camt boot into the OS. I MADE a few changes to the UEFI and boot settings. What are some issues that could contribute to this?

scuzzy_dog · 04-20-2022, 05:36 PM

Before going any further get your machine to boot.

Try setting, in BIOS, to use Legacy Mode. Or if that's already set then don't use it.

If you have to just reset the BIOS to Defaults - most have that ability.

Once you can boot again try deleting your xorg.conf. Make a backup first. I haven't had to make my own in a long time. It mostly just works.

You didn't answer the question - are you running nvidia?

Also - did you install using lilo, elilo, grub?