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optiluca
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 Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 11:30 am Post subject: [solved] xorg 1.9 upgrade disaster |
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Hi all. Today's emerge --sync gave me two main updates: KDE 4.5.1 and Xorg 1.9. The emerge proceeded without issue (apart from an unrelated hard reboot I had to make, so I had to resume the emerge process), and all was good. I rebuild x11-drivers packages, rebooted and got this weird error from xdm:
| Quote: | | ERROR: xdm needs service(s) xdm-setup |
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In effect, there is no xdm-setup anymore, but why is it gone if it is needed?? What puzzles me even more is that if I open /etc/init.d/xdm it says it depends on localmount and xdm, no mention of xdm-setup whatsoever! How is it deciding it needs xdm-setup to work?
So I thought I'd deal with it later, ran startx and...
| Quote: | (EE) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad no synaptics event device found
(EE) Query no Synaptics: 6003C8
(EE) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
waiting for X server to shut down... |
So I thought I'd deal with this later once again, downgraded xorg server to the previous version on ~amd64, rebuilt x11-driver packages, rebooted and... exactly the same errors!!!! :@ This time the /etc/init.d/xdm file does actually depend on xdm-setup, but xdm-setup is still not there??
I also get the same error running startx... I am totally stuck and baffled.
Any ideas anyone??? 
EDIT: OK I forced a fsck on reboot and the issue is gone. That hard reboot must have done something bad :S
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veso.k
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| Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 12:36 pm Post subject: |
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Please use etc-update to update the xdm file in /etc/init.d ...
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optiluca
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| Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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| veso.k wrote: | Please use etc-update to update the xdm file in /etc/init.d ...
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ofc I did that. The issue is solved, see post above.
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painteru
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| Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 2:23 pm Post subject: |
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I have a similar problem :
ERROR: xdm needs service(s) xdm-setup
but # startx works in my case.
I had to downgrade to xorg-server-1.8.2 to enter directly in kdm.
Optiluca, did you have xorg-server-1.9 working without that error ?
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Kollin
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| Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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well i merged xdm 
EDIT: Just updated my system and there is a fix for init.d/xdm script.I got rid of xdm and all of it`'s deps 
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optiluca
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| Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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| painteru wrote: | I have a similar problem :
ERROR: xdm needs service(s) xdm-setup
but # startx works in my case.
I had to downgrade to xorg-server-1.8.2 to enter directly in kdm.
Optiluca, did you have xorg-server-1.9 working without that error ? |
Yes, xorg server 1.9 is functional. The file /etc/init.d/xdm was correct, I just has a filesystem error or something I believe, due to the hard lockup I had during the emerge process. By the sounds of it a new sync should get you up and running 
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jiangtao
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| Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 10:14 am Post subject: |
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Similar problem with xdm ...
run:
sudo rc-update -u
Now, it is working...
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