Still unable to get anywhere after rawhide update (evdev problem)

[Linus Walleij]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Paul F. Johnson wrote:

> After the update to xorg-x11-drv-evdev and the associated xorg-x11-server
> packages, I've found that I can't log in via gdm (it accepts the username,
> but then fails to start the desktop session).

If it's rawhide, I have the same problem on this Duo non-x86_64 system.

> I'm unable to drop down to a
> console using ctrl-alt-f1 to see what the problem is.

Same.

> I reboot, but this time to runlevel3. I can't fire up X from the command
> line and get 2 errors. One saying that it found inet at line 915 (no idea
> what that is talking about!) and the other that the lights at 0x0 are off
> (I'm not at the machine causing the problems, so these reports are more or
> less correct, but probably not exactly what is said).

I boot with "S" (single user) then run "init 4" from the prompt, log in as 
a regular user and run "startx". It works like a charm. So in my case 
atleast it's a gdm or console-kit issue of some kind. Haven't had time to 
downgrade evdev though.

Linus