[opensuse] X11 failure after reboot!
Oh boy, I just hit a new problem on one of my systems after rebooting it. Wonder if perhaps an update broke things? Running Leap42.1 on an x64 system. System boots up fine, with all services running, just not the entire display and this is odd. I do get a rather large X cursor that is responding to the mouse. One of the services I am running on this system is Teamviewer and it's graphical dialog boxes, which normally show up when the desktop comes up, do show up in the display. But nothing else is showing up, no background, no shell windows, no kicker bar, nada - nothing else. I did try to use Teamviewer ;-) to see if the desktop would display remotely, nope. I have never been able to get VNC services working under Leap42.1 so can't go that route. I can SSH into the system from another computer and everything else seems fine. So this leads me to believe something has gone haywire with X11. Grepping through the Xorg log files doesn't show me anything obvious or what I can understand - bigbang:/var/log # cat Xorg.0.log | grep "(WW)" (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [ 42.644] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi" does not exist. [ 45.030] (WW) Unresolved symbol: fbGetGCPrivateKey [ 45.053] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting [ 45.053] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev [ 45.075] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa [ 48.847] (WW) evdev: Logitech K800: ignoring absolute axes. bigbang:/var/log # cat Xorg.0.log | grep "(EE)" (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [ 45.075] (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory Finally, I also tried rebooting to an older version of SuSE, openSuSE12.3 which did come up just fine. Any suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks in advance... Marc... -- "The Truth is out there" - Spooky -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 10/5/2016 12:38 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-10-05 21:15, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Any suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks in advance... Marc... What video do you use? Perhaps nvidia?
Yep NVidia Quadro FX 380 -- "The Truth is out there" - Spooky -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2016-10-05 22:00, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
On 10/5/2016 12:38 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-10-05 21:15, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Any suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks in advance... Marc... What video do you use? Perhaps nvidia?
Yep NVidia Quadro FX 380
Proprietary driver, perhaps? You may have to reinstall it. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
On 10/5/2016 1:16 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-10-05 22:00, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
On 10/5/2016 12:38 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-10-05 21:15, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Any suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks in advance... Marc... What video do you use? Perhaps nvidia?
Yep NVidia Quadro FX 380 Proprietary driver, perhaps? You may have to reinstall it.
Thanks again Carlos, well that was a good thought, I went into Yast Software Manager, told it to search for anything with "nvidia" in its packages, and to update them. (I do have it set up to use the nVidia repo.) It downloaded and reinstalled them, but again no joy after rebooting... Sometimes ya just gotta love computers! Frustrating beasts! IMHO of course... Marc... -- "The Truth is out there" - Spooky -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 10/5/2016 3:12 PM, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
On 10/5/2016 1:16 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-10-05 22:00, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
On 10/5/2016 12:38 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-10-05 21:15, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Any suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks in advance... Marc... What video do you use? Perhaps nvidia?
Yep NVidia Quadro FX 380 Proprietary driver, perhaps? You may have to reinstall it.
Thanks again Carlos, well that was a good thought, I went into Yast Software Manager, told it to search for anything with "nvidia" in its packages, and to update them. (I do have it set up to use the nVidia repo.) It downloaded and reinstalled them, but again no joy after rebooting... Sometimes ya just gotta love computers! Frustrating beasts! IMHO of course...
Marc...
Well this was nasty!!! I have been working on getting vsftpd to work properly using TLS/SSL and towards that goal I had been told that I should make sure only ROOT has permissions to access certificates and keyfiles within /etc/ssl. So I had done a global chmod 600 * on everything within /etc/ssl. And guess who needs access to the EXAMPLE openssl.cnf file provided for generating certificate requests? X11 !!!!!!! Why X11 needs to generate certificate requests and WHY X11 doesn't provide its OWN .cnf file, and is using one that is provided as an example on how to create a certificate request, is way beyond my ability to comprehend! Anywise, chmod'ing openssl.cnf to make it world readable made X11 a happy camper and my desktop is once again visible. (I wonder how Teamviewer managed to get around X11 and make their tool's gui visible despite X11's failure, is yet another mystery, but not one I am going to spend any time on figuring out. Seems somewhat inconsistent IMHO!) Now back to my regularly scheduled programming, solving system slowdowns, and recalcitrant vsftpd servers..... Thanks all.. Marc... -- "The Truth is out there" - Spooky -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2016-10-06 01:02, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Well this was nasty!!! I have been working on getting vsftpd to work properly using TLS/SSL and towards that goal I had been told that I should make sure only ROOT has permissions to access certificates and keyfiles within /etc/ssl. So I had done a global chmod 600 * on everything within /etc/ssl. And guess who needs access to the EXAMPLE openssl.cnf file provided for generating certificate requests? X11 !!!!!!! Why X11 needs to generate certificate requests and WHY X11 doesn't provide its OWN .cnf file, and is using one that is provided as an example on how to create a certificate request, is way beyond my ability to comprehend!
Wow! :-o What a surprise. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
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