[opensuse] No GNOME after upgrade
Hi, Used zypper dup to move from 11.1 to 11.3, and now my desktop will no longer display. Well, the background displays OK, but there is no panel and right click on the desktop does not work either. When I remotely log into the machine and set $DISPLAY to :0.0 and then try to start xlock for example I get the following: -> xclock No protocol specified Error: Can't open display: :0.0 Starting a GNOME app such as just results in the following: -> gnome-terminal No protocol specified Failed to parse arguments: Cannot open display: -> echo $DISPLAY :0.0 Any ideas what's going on here and how to fix it? Thanks, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU Software Engineer Consultant LINUX rschweikert@novell.com 781-464-8147 Novell Making IT Work As One -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 17 September 2010, Robert Schweikert wrote:
Hi,
Used zypper dup to move from 11.1 to 11.3, and now my desktop will no longer display. Well, the background displays OK, but there is no panel and right click on the desktop does not work either.
When I remotely log into the machine and set $DISPLAY to :0.0 and then try to start xlock for example I get the following:
-> xclock No protocol specified Error: Can't open display: :0.0
Starting a GNOME app such as just results in the following:
-> gnome-terminal No protocol specified Failed to parse arguments: Cannot open display:
-> echo $DISPLAY
:0.0
Any ideas what's going on here and how to fix it?
Looks to me as the X settings have been screwed up and has to be fixed. Thierry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 09/17/2010 12:44 PM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
On Friday 17 September 2010, Robert Schweikert wrote:
Hi,
Used zypper dup to move from 11.1 to 11.3, and now my desktop will no longer display. Well, the background displays OK, but there is no panel and right click on the desktop does not work either.
When I remotely log into the machine and set $DISPLAY to :0.0 and then try to start xlock for example I get the following:
-> xclock No protocol specified Error: Can't open display: :0.0
Starting a GNOME app such as just results in the following:
-> gnome-terminal No protocol specified Failed to parse arguments: Cannot open display:
-> echo $DISPLAY
:0.0
Any ideas what's going on here and how to fix it?
Looks to me as the X settings have been screwed up and has to be fixed.
OK, any pointers about what files I need to fiddle with would be much appreciated. Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU Software Engineer Consultant LINUX rschweikert@novell.com 781-464-8147 Novell Making IT Work As One -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 09/17/2010 12:10 PM, Robert Schweikert wrote:
OK, any pointers about what files I need to fiddle with would be much appreciated.
Robert
Robert, Start with the basics: (1) do you have the proper kernel module (driver) installed to support your graphics card? What is it? Intel, ATI, Nvidia? (2) go move /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.sav and restart X. (rcxdm/rcgdm restart) X has been able to choose reasonable defaults without an xorg.conf since ~7.2. Also, since you are using gnome, there is a big change between gdm 1X and the new gdm 2X. I don't know if you had a custom theme for gdm installed with 11.1, but it will not be supported in gdm 2X (there are presently very limited mods available for the new gdm) (further, I don't know if that would impact your X start or not, but it's worth looking into) (3) make sure there is nothing funky in your ~/.Xdefaults (4) make sure you have the right 11.3 gnome repositories available to zypper. I have: baseurl=http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/GNOME:/Apps/openSUSE_11.3 baseurl=http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/GNOME:/Contrib/openSUSE_11.3 baseurl=http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/GNOME:/STABLE:/2.30/openSUSE_1... Those are the immediate ideas that come to mind. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 17 September 2010, Robert Schweikert wrote:
Looks to me as the X settings have been screwed up and has to be fixed.
OK, any pointers about what files I need to fiddle with would be much appreciated.
Robert
Well, I'm very new at 11.3 myself and lots of things have changed since 11.2, there seem to be a new graphic "system" that "guesses" everything by itself and, as usual with these _stupid_ wizardry, when it works its so easy but when it fails it's C***. Sax has been removed it seems :( Nevertheless, this is what I would do if I was in your case: a) It may depend on what graphic card you use. I have an Nvidia. b) basically the place to look at is /etc/X11. In old time there should have been an xorg.conf file there that contains the information necessary to run X. The new system seems to put whatever it guesses somewhere else (don't know where), but the system will honnor and use an xorg.conf file (at least the Nvidia configuration creates one and it works). c) Once you are root at the command line (I use init 3 to get there, but you should not need that as you don't have X running), xou can try "X -configure". It should create an xorg.new (or xorg.conf.new) file and tell you where it put it. Copy the file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and try startx If this does not work, please give more informations about your hardware and someone may be able to help. Other solutions I can think of are: - copy xorg.conf back from some backup of your 11.1 install - you could even try some live CD (Mepis for example) that automagically sets up X and get the xorg.conf from there. It may or may not work but all distro should be running roughly the same version of X at the moment. Once you get X running it should be possible to tweak the settings if you screen is not good. Hope that can help Thierry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 09/17/2010 02:35 PM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
c) Once you are root at the command line (I use init 3 to get there, but you should not need that as you don't have X running), xou can try "X -configure". It should create an xorg.new (or xorg.conf.new) file and tell you where it put it. Copy the file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and try startx
Also, Don't forget the old tools if you need to create modelines (gtf) or tweak X settings (xvidtune). xvidtune can also give you additional information about your system, timings, etc... Also as Theirry said look at the tools available for your chipset to set an initial config. For ATI 'aticonfig --initial' (google for nvidia and intel tips -- I can't remember right off hand) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday, September 18, 2010 02:33:02 David C. Rankin wrote:
Also as Theirry said look at the tools available for your chipset to set an initial config. For ATI 'aticonfig --initial' (google for nvidia and intel tips -- I can't remember right off hand)
nvidia driver, at least for the newer chips, comes with "nvidia-settings." don't know if the older ones have the same... -- phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 09/17/2010 12:10 PM, Robert Schweikert wrote:
OK, any pointers about what files I need to fiddle with would be much appreciated.
Robert
Robert, One more issue - I had problem with the default 2.6.34 kernel that ships with opensuse 11.3, I updated to 2.6.35 from the Kernel:/HEAD repo and that helped. Unfortunately, 2.5.35 isn't available in HEAD anymore ( I sure don't know why we don't archive the kernels built in subdirectories some where so people can grab the ones that work with their system instead of having them disappear - maybe we do and I don't know where they are...) The current 2.6.36rc4 has also given me issues, but try it anyway as others have had good luck... Also - make sure you have updated all your repository URL's and then do another 'zypper up' and 'zypper up -t patch' to make sure you really have everything updated. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. I tried a few things, including getting rid of the Nvidia driver that was installed during upgrade. Also removed the old xorg.conf file and fixed a reference in sysconfig to the nvidia driver. All without success. Ran a fresh install from DVD and now have the system back in working order, including the Nvidia drivers. Robert On 09/17/2010 12:22 PM, Robert Schweikert wrote:
Hi,
Used zypper dup to move from 11.1 to 11.3, and now my desktop will no longer display. Well, the background displays OK, but there is no panel and right click on the desktop does not work either.
When I remotely log into the machine and set $DISPLAY to :0.0 and then try to start xlock for example I get the following:
-> xclock No protocol specified Error: Can't open display: :0.0
Starting a GNOME app such as just results in the following:
-> gnome-terminal No protocol specified Failed to parse arguments: Cannot open display:
-> echo $DISPLAY :0.0
Any ideas what's going on here and how to fix it?
Thanks, Robert
-- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU Software Engineer Consultant LINUX rschweikert@novell.com 781-464-8147 Novell Making IT Work As One -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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