David C. Rankin said the following on 09/08/2011 11:48 PM:
guys
Updates tonight from the xorg repo broke x on my toshiba laptop. The system would boot and be dumped to console with some message about not being able to move Xorg.0.log to Xorg.0.log.old (ho hum...)
That _may_ be a permissions problem. It depends on how you start X If you are using runlevel 5 then kdm should be running as root and kdm will start X and there should'nt be a problem. If you are having problems with kdm (or xdm or gdm) [like me] and are starting from the command line as a user with 'startx' then X is started with your user (i.e. not root) ID and so can't move the log file since /var/log is owned by root and not writable by mere users. So you need a /etc/permissions.local # setuid bit on Xorg is only needed if no display manager, ie startx # is used. Beware of CVE-2010-2240. # /usr/bin/Xorg root:root 4711 and then run as root: chkstat -set /etc/permissions.local
The rpms updated were:
/var/cache/zypp/packages/xorg/noarch: xkeyboard-config-2.2.1-25.18.noarch.rpm xorg-x11-libX11-ccache-7.6-16.56.noarch.rpm
/var/cache/zypp/packages/xorg/x86_64: xorg-x11-server-7.6_1.10.4-163.1.x86_64.rpm xorg-x11-server-extra-7.6_1.10.4-163.1.x86_64.rpm xorg-x11-Xvnc-7.6_1.10.4-163.1.x86_64.rpm
Downgrading those files alone would allow X to start, but there was no keyboard or mouse input accepted by the display manager.
I still get that sometimes but I wonder if my hardware is acting up
Further downgrading of the following got the box running again:
rpm -Uvh --oldpackage xkeyboard-config-2.2.1-25.9.noarch.rpm \ xorg-x11-libX11-ccache-7.6-16.44.noarch.rpm \ xorg-x11-Xvnc-7.6_1.9.3-157.5.x86_64.rpm \ xorg-x11-xauth-7.6-175.7.x86_64.rpm \ xorg-x11-server-extra-7.6_1.9.3-157.5.x86_64.rpm \ xorg-x11-server-7.6_1.9.3-157.5.x86_64.rpm \ xorg-x11-driver-video-nouveau-0.0.16_20110115_b795ca6-25.3.x86_64.rpm \ xorg-x11-driver-input-7.6-117.2.x86_64.rpm
Is anybody else experiencing problems with these new xorg packages? If so let me know. Thanks.
I've been having a LOT of problems with xorg packages or over a month now. -- At least when humans go to casualty, they generally haven't gone into the Control Panel and messed with the settings... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org