Bug #831

Modifying MythVantage Display settings without Internet access kills X.

Added by turpie over 12 years ago. Updated about 12 years ago.

Status:Closed Start date:05/16/2012
Priority:Normal Due date:
Assignee:jams % Done:

0%
Category:Other Spent time: 6.00 hours
Target version:8.0

Description

I recently moved house and didn't yet have internet access, I also bought a new HDTV. While attempting to change to a higher resolution I changed something in the MythVantage Display options, which caused pacman to uninstall all the X drivers and then attempt to reinstall the nVidia drivers. Unfortunately because there was one internet access it couldn't reinstall the drivers and now X wont start.

photo.JPG - pacman log (1.4 MB) turpie, 05/15/2012 06:37 pm

History

Updated by turpie over 12 years ago

Updated by brfransen over 12 years ago

What does ls /data/var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia* show?

Updated by turpie over 12 years ago

Here is the info you requested, plus the pacman.log from when I believe the problem began. Now that I have internet access again I have also tried rerunning the last command from the pacman.log (pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils). I now have X running again, and the boot process is no longer getting stuck.

  1. ls /data/var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia*
    /data/var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia-173xx-173.14.30-4-i686.pkg.tar.xz
    /data/var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia-173xx-utils-173.14.30-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
    /data/var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia-285.05.09-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
    /data/var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia-290.10-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz
    /data/var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia-96xx-96.43.19-7-i686.pkg.tar.xz
    /data/var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia-96xx-utils-96.43.19-3-i686.pkg.tar.xz
    /data/var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia-utils-285.05.09-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
    /data/var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia-utils-290.10-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
  1. vi pacman.log
    [2012-04-27 21:30] starting full system upgrade
    [2012-05-12 09:10] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rdd libgl'
    [2012-05-12 09:10] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rdd nvidia'
    [2012-05-12 09:10] removed nvidia (290.10-2)
    [2012-05-12 09:10] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rdd nvidia-utils'
    [2012-05-12 09:10] removed nvidia-utils (290.10-1)
    [2012-05-12 09:10] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rdd nvidia-173xx'
    [2012-05-12 09:10] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rdd nvidia-173xx-utils'
    [2012-05-12 09:10] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rdd nvidia-96xx'
    [2012-05-12 09:10] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rdd nvidia-96xx-utils'
    [2012-05-12 09:10] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rc ati-dri'
    [2012-05-12 09:10] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rc xf86-video-ati'
    [2012-05-12 09:10] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rc intel-dri'
    [2012-05-12 09:10] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rc xf86-video-intel'
    [2012-05-12 09:10] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rc mga-dri'
    [2012-05-12 09:10] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rc xf86-video-mga'
    [2012-05-12 09:10] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rc savage-dri'
    [2012-05-12 09:10] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rc xf86-video-savage'
    [2012-05-12 09:10] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rc sis-dri'
    [2012-05-12 09:10] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rc xf86-video-sis'
    [2012-05-12 09:10] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rc unichrome-dri'
    [2012-05-12 09:10] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rc xf86-video-unichrome'
    [2012-05-12 09:10] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -S nvidia nvidia-utils'
    [2012-05-13 22:08] Running 'pacman -Syu nvidia'
    [2012-05-13 22:08] synchronizing package lists
    [2012-05-13 22:10] Running 'pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils'
  1. pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils
    resolving dependencies...
    looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (2): nvidia-utils-280.13-1 nvidia-280.13-1

Total Download Size: 12.00 MB
Total Installed Size: 44.29 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]

Here is the pacman.log AFTER manually running pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils and then playing with the Display Settings again.
[2012-05-18 20:02] Running 'pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils'
[2012-05-18 20:12] installed nvidia-utils (280.13-1)
[2012-05-18 20:12] In order to use nvidia module, reboot the system.
[2012-05-18 20:12] installed nvidia (280.13-1)
[2012-05-18 20:18] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2012-05-18 20:18] synchronizing package lists
[2012-05-18 20:18] starting full system upgrade
[2012-05-18 20:27] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rdd libgl'
[2012-05-18 20:27] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rdd nvidia'
[2012-05-18 20:27] removed nvidia (280.13-1)
[2012-05-18 20:27] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rdd nvidia-utils'
[2012-05-18 20:27] removed nvidia-utils (280.13-1)
[2012-05-18 20:27] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rdd nvidia-173xx'
[2012-05-18 20:27] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rdd nvidia-173xx-utils'
[2012-05-18 20:27] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rdd nvidia-96xx'
[2012-05-18 20:27] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rdd nvidia-96xx-utils'
[2012-05-18 20:27] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rc ati-dri'
[2012-05-18 20:27] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rc xf86-video-ati'
[2012-05-18 20:27] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rc intel-dri'
[2012-05-18 20:27] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rc xf86-video-intel'
[2012-05-18 20:27] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rc mga-dri'
[2012-05-18 20:27] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rc xf86-video-mga'
[2012-05-18 20:27] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rc savage-dri'
[2012-05-18 20:27] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rc xf86-video-savage'
[2012-05-18 20:27] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rc sis-dri'
[2012-05-18 20:27] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rc xf86-video-sis'
[2012-05-18 20:27] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rc unichrome-dri'
[2012-05-18 20:27] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rc xf86-video-unichrome'
[2012-05-18 20:27] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -S nvidia nvidia-utils'
[2012-05-18 20:27] installed nvidia-utils (280.13-1)
[2012-05-18 20:27] In order to use nvidia module, reboot the system.
[2012-05-18 20:27] installed nvidia (280.13-1)

[root@mythtv log]# ls /data/var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia*
/data/var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia-173xx-173.14.30-4-i686.pkg.tar.xz
/data/var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia-173xx-utils-173.14.30-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
/data/var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia-280.13-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
/data/var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia-285.05.09-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
/data/var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia-290.10-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz
/data/var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia-96xx-96.43.19-7-i686.pkg.tar.xz
/data/var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia-96xx-utils-96.43.19-3-i686.pkg.tar.xz
/data/var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia-utils-280.13-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
/data/var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia-utils-285.05.09-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
/data/var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia-utils-290.10-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
[root@mythtv log]#

Updated by jams about 12 years ago

  • Assignee set to jams
  • Status changed from New to Closed
  • Target version set to 8.0

This has been resolved in R8.
The system will now try to d/l the packages or check cache. If the needed packages are not found it will abort the change and leave the existing config in place

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