No Xserver after update 12.1

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LS,

Can’t get an xserver to work on my system upon reboot after an update. No gui login. Trying to start with startx gives following messages :

xauth: file /root/.serverauth.2185 does not exist

X.Org X Server 1.10.4
Release Date: 2011-08-19
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: openSUSE SUSE LINUX
Current Operating System: Linux sidney 3.6.0-1-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 4 13:44:56 UTC 2012 (338be2c) x86_64
Kernel command line: root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/6470915b-b0ab-469b-8811-8b9987396660 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2000JS-00MHB0_WD-WCANK2826770-part6 splash=silent quiet vga=0x31a
Build Date: 10 November 2011 03:34:36PM

Current version of pixman: 0.26.2
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Markers: (–) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: “/var/log/Xorg.0.log”, Time: Sun Oct 28 19:24:30 2012
(==) Using config directory: “/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d”
(==) Using system config directory “/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d”
(EE) Failed to load module “fglrx” (module does not exist, 0)
(II) [KMS] Kernel modesetting enabled.
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning: Type “ONE_LEVEL” has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
> Ignoring extra symbols
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
/etc/X11/xim: Checking whether an input method should be started.
sourcing /etc/sysconfig/language to get the value of INPUT_METHOD
INPUT_METHOD is not set or empty (no user selected input method).
Trying to start a default input method for the locale nl_NL.UTF-8 …
There is no default input method for the current locale.
Dummy input method “none” (do not use any fancy input method by default)
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning: Compat map for group 2 redefined
> Using new definition
> Warning: Compat map for group 3 redefined
> Using new definition
> Warning: Compat map for group 4 redefined
> Using new definition
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
xsetroot: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libXrender.so.1: undefined symbol: _XGetRequest
startkde: Starting up…
/usr/bin/kdeinit4: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libXext.so.6: undefined symbol: _XGetRequest
startkde: Could not start kdeinit4. Check your installation.
xmessage: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libXrender.so.1: undefined symbol: _XGetRequest
xinit: connection to X server lost

waiting for X server to shut down

Any ideas about what can be wrong?

Thank you in advance.

D.

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On 2012-10-30 09:26, ReneArtois wrote:
> Can’t get an xserver to work on my system upon reboot after an update.

What did you update?

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))

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startx no longer works if evoked as a normal user (see the release notes of release 11.4, you can find them in the wiki)

Can’t get an xserver to work on my system upon reboot after an update. No gui login.
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Any ideas about what can be wrong?
As already asked, what was it that you updated that caused this to occur … (it is common to see users report such behaviour (which would actually be expected to occur, but certainly not from the perspective of the unaware individual) in the case where they have previously installed the prop. video drivers (which are built against the specific kernel installed at the time) and then go install a kernel update without first uninstalling the proprietary video driver )

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IIRC I already replied in another thread, reinstall the ATI driver. In the log we see that the fglrx module is not being found.