X server upgrade causes X to fail: ABI mismatch [Solved]

bjdacre · n00b Joined: 25 Nov 2014 Posts: 35 Location: Whangarei, NZ

Gentlepeople,

I upgraded my x86 system to xorg-server 1.16.4 yesterday. X no longer starts with the error:

EE module abi major version (15) doesn't match the servers version (1

This happens when I try to load the savage module version 2.3.7. I noticed some of the driver modules being updated yesterday but didn't notice whether one of them was the savage driver.

Guess not.

How do I get X back on this system? Can I just patch an ABI number in the savage source in the portage tree and recompile the driver? If so, how do I do that?

Brendan

bec · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2015 10:03 pm Post subject:

Have you tried:

emerge -1 @x11-module-rebuild
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abe

bjdacre · n00b Joined: 25 Nov 2014 Posts: 35 Location: Whangarei, NZ

bec,

I have now and X is now working. Thanks

Brendan

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8936

How did you update xorg-server? It should have rebuilt x11-modules automatically.

bjdacre · n00b Joined: 25 Nov 2014 Posts: 35 Location: Whangarei, NZ

genstorm,

I run an update script daily which consists of the following

emerge --sync
emerge --ask --update --deep --tree --newuse --with-bdeps=y @world
sudo emerge --ask --depclean
revdep-rebuild

This worked on both my x86-64 systems a couple of days ago but failed on the x86 system using the savage driver yesterday.

Brendan