xorg.conf gets reset on 2nd boot after a kernel update
Christoph Wickert
christoph.wickert at gmx.de
Sat Nov 12 18:15:37 UTC 2005
Am Samstag, den 12.11.2005, 09:57 -0700 schrieb Dan Hensley:
> On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 09:52 -0500, Graham Campbell wrote:
>
> > > > >How do I keep FC4 from doing this incredibly annoying thing?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > My guess is that you installed the proprietary Nvidia driver and did a
> > > > yum update which included a new kernel got installed for which a
> > > > equivalent Nvidia module was not available. The Nvidia package probably
> > > > has some logic in it to check whether a equivalent module is available
> > > > and if not rewrite xorg.conf to fallback on the Xorg open source 'nv'
> > > > driver included in Fedora. There might be some packaging bug that does
> > > > it incorrectly causing your X login to fail. You have to report that to
> > > > the package maintainers if thats the case.
> > >
> > > The order of events was,
> > >
> > > 1. yum update to install the new kernel.
> > > 2. Reboot, runlevel 3.
> > > 3. Run sh NVIDIA*.run to install the nVidia proprietary drivers.
> > > 4. Verify xorg.conf. No changes, everything is fine.
> > > 5. telinit 5. Everything is fine.
> > > 6. Reboot. My xorg.conf has been blasted, and I have to hit the Reset
> > > button to recover.
> > >
> >
> > Have you installed the Livna Nvidia package at any time? It adds
> > to /etc/rc.d/init.d an nvidia-glx file which is one of the very few ways
> > that things would be changed on a reboot. If you have gone back to the
> > nvidia procedure, remove that package.
>
> I've never installed the Livna package. I'm thinking of putting my own
> process init.d just to make sure the xorg.conf file stops getting
> clobbered, but that's just a bandaid.
>
I think it's kudzu, I've seen kudzu doing this twice on my machine.
# chkconfig kudzu off
> Dan
Christoph
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