nv driver and gnome broken

David Mack dmack at juniper.net
Fri Jan 25 04:47:12 UTC 2008


Nuking /root/.Xauthority before running startx fixed this problem.

Dave 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of David Mack
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 9:33 AM
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> Subject: RE: nv driver and gnome broken
> 
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> > [mailto:fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of 
> Adam Jackson
> > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 9:20 AM
> > To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> > Subject: RE: nv driver and gnome broken
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 08:38 -0800, David Mack wrote:
> > > Yes, the nv driver is back up. However, X is still 
> > nonfunctional. I get
> > > the stippled gray background and an "X" cursor and nothing else:
> > > 
> > >  AUDIT: Thu Jan 24 08:35:17 2008: 2846 X: client 1 rejected 
> > from local
> > > host ( uid
> > > =0 gid=0 pid=2845 )
> > >   Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1
> > 
> > What process is 2845 when this happens?
> 
> xinit
> 
> > How are you starting X?
> 
> startx
>  
> > How are you starting X?  What's the command line shown by 'ps auwx |
> > grep X' ?  If an authority file is listed on the command 
> line, does it
> > contain a valid cookie for that server, and is it the same 
> one as your
> > clients are using?
> 
> AUDIT: Thu Jan 24 09:15:42 2008: 3198 X: client 1 rejected from local
> host ( uid=0 gid=0 pid=3197 )
>   Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1
> 
> [root at garnet(Linux)]:~
> 0# ps auwx | grep 3197
> root      3197  0.0  0.0   2980   624 tty1     S+   09:15   0:00 xinit
> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- -auth /root/.serverauth.3181
> 
> [root at garnet(Linux)]:~
> 0# XAUTHORITY=/root/.serverauth.3181 xauth list
> garnet.leviatron.com/unix:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
> f0f2afbe1232f3233a82486f515ce5c2
> garnet.leviatron.com/unix:1  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
> 109fb1ed590f10613b71e8f3ac109dfe
> garnet.leviatron.com/unix:2  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
> 109fb1ed590f10613b71e8f3ac109dfe
> 
> [root at garnet(Linux)]:~
> 0# ps auwx | grep X
> root      3197  0.0  0.0   2980   624 tty1     S+   09:15   0:00 xinit
> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- -auth /root/.serverauth.3181
> root      3198  0.8  0.5  13324  5788 tty7     S<s+ 09:15   0:00 X :0
> -auth /root/.serverauth.3181
> 
> xinit tries to connect every 2 seconds for a couple of minutes, then
> gives up with 
> 
> xinit: Resource temporarily unavailable (errno 11): unable to 
> connect to
> X server
> 
> waiting for X server to shut down
> 
> xinit: server error
> 
> Dave
> 
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