I had a perfectly good working Devuan system running testing .(beowulf /ceres) Ran some updates a few days ago and everything was working fine. Rebooted starts normally brings up slim, user name and password as normal then a black screen. Switching to a terminal Alt Ctrl F1 allows me to log in. startx and xinit fail Obviously the video card is good or I couldn't get to the log in screen or use the terminal. The system is using the nouveau video driver. It was I believe running the Nvidia driver before the updates Only error I notice on shutdown is that slim is not running which I presume is due to a failure to startx. Where do I start debugging this one? Beats me right now. Stripes. -- Stripes Theotoky -37 .713869 145.050562
On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 06:58:28PM +0000, stripes theotoky wrote:
Where do I start debugging this one? Beats me right now.
/var/log/Xorg.0.log if there are errors while X is starting up, they'll be in here. Look especially for lines with "(EE)" (errors) and maybe also "(WW)" (warnings). ~/.xsession-errors stderr from window managers, desktop environments, GUI apps, etc is logged here. there will probably be a lot of "noise" drowning out the signal, making it difficult to interpret what is going on, or to identify what the root cause is. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>
Hi Craig, Thanks.
Where do I start debugging this one? Beats me right now.
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep \(EE\) ( WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [22.634] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist. cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep \(WW\) ( WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [200.317] (EE) NOUVEAU(0): failed to set gamma: Permission denied [200.317] (EE) NOUVEAU(0): failed to set gamma: Permission denied [200.317] (EE) NOUVEAU(0): failed to set gamma: Permission denied Google is not very helpful here. But at least I have something to look at.
if there are errors while X is starting up, they'll be in here. Look especially for lines with "(EE)" (errors) and maybe also "(WW)" (warnings).
~/.xsession-errors
As you said far too much noise and not enough signal there been scrolling for 10 minutes and still running mostly seems to be font config and firefox errors. Stripes
craig
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It was a cock up with the updates, specifically polkit. All the updates where up to date last night when I wrote looking for help. I checked xsession-errors and found that Xfce couldn't find polkit-gobject-1. Update this morning brought in polkit along with other files. Reboot and it is fine. Must be that I ran the updates just when files were moving from experimental to testing. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Stripes On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 at 11:14, stripes theotoky < stripes.theotoky@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hi Craig,
Thanks.
Where do I start debugging this one? Beats me right now.
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep \(EE\) ( WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [22.634] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep \(WW\) ( WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [200.317] (EE) NOUVEAU(0): failed to set gamma: Permission denied [200.317] (EE) NOUVEAU(0): failed to set gamma: Permission denied [200.317] (EE) NOUVEAU(0): failed to set gamma: Permission denied
Google is not very helpful here. But at least I have something to look at.
if there are errors while X is starting up, they'll be in here. Look especially for lines with "(EE)" (errors) and maybe also "(WW)" (warnings).
~/.xsession-errors
As you said far too much noise and not enough signal there been scrolling for 10 minutes and still running mostly seems to be font config and firefox errors.
Stripes
craig
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