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kiss-o-matic
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 Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 6:16 am Post subject: Xorg busted after upgrading |
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My mchine has some old packages in it, so a whole deep world update isn't happening (blockers). I did some packages, and apparently one of them really cocked up the works. I indeed did re-emerge the nivida drivers after doing a new kernel. I get this error
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XF86OpenConsole: Cannot open /dev/tty0
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/dev/tty0 indeed, does not exist. I've googled arond and found some really old posts... none o them leading me to a solution though. |
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BitJam
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kiss-o-matic
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| Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:08 am Post subject: |
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Sure did. /dev/tty0 still doesn't exist.  |
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kiss-o-matic
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I seem to have really fisted myself on this one. It was bitching about fsck.reiserfs not being available. reiserfsprogs were indeed unemerged. Remerged them and rebooted, and not it says the block is corrupted and only reboots. Blech. I'll go in w/ a System Repair CD, but somethin tells me grabbing the handful of files that I store locally, sticking them elsewhere, and starting from scratch is a far better plan that surgically messing with the current build.
Still not sure what the problem is though. /dev was basically empty, so of course, nothing worked. I think the tty0 thing was pure coincidence. If it wasn't that, it would've been one o a myriad of other things. |
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Akkara
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| Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:02 am Post subject: |
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| kiss-o-matic wrote: | | /dev was basically empty, so of course, nothing worked. |
That one sounds like a problem with udev. Maybe it isn't being started up? Unfortunately I don't know enough about it to know what to suggest to try. |
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Rexilion
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| Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:10 am Post subject: |
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| kiss-o-matic wrote: | I seem to have really fisted myself on this one. It was bitching about fsck.reiserfs not being available. reiserfsprogs were indeed unemerged. Remerged them and rebooted, and not it says the block is corrupted and only reboots. Blech. I'll go in w/ a System Repair CD, but somethin tells me grabbing the handful of files that I store locally, sticking them elsewhere, and starting from scratch is a far better plan that surgically messing with the current build.
Still not sure what the problem is though. /dev was basically empty, so of course, nothing worked. I think the tty0 thing was pure coincidence. If it wasn't that, it would've been one o a myriad of other things. |
Perhaps you could try and post the output of dmesg? |
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kiss-o-matic
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| Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 12:22 pm Post subject: |
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| dmesg gave nothing really good. In fact, it had only one very vague error. I suspected dbus, and tried re-emerging it w/ the kitchen sink. The reiserfs thing really screwed me though. I wound up cocking up the super block when I ran fsck.reiserfs --rebuild-sf. Thank GOD I made a tarball of my homedir. I think there's one MySQL database I would've rather saved, but I won't die without it. Other than that, all my data is properly stored elsewhere, so I'm not too bothered by rebuilding (which I'm going to start in about 30 minutes as it were). |
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Rexilion
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| Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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| kiss-o-matic wrote: | | dmesg gave nothing really good. In fact, it had only one very vague error. I suspected dbus, and tried re-emerging it w/ the kitchen sink. The reiserfs thing really screwed me though. I wound up cocking up the super block when I ran fsck.reiserfs --rebuild-sf. Thank GOD I made a tarball of my homedir. I think there's one MySQL database I would've rather saved, but I won't die without it. Other than that, all my data is properly stored elsewhere, so I'm not too bothered by rebuilding (which I'm going to start in about 30 minutes as it were). |
Okay  . Good luck, pity we could not help you . One question, seeing you use ReiserFS, I was wondering the following: Are you going to use it again after these experiences? Do you think it could be related to the FS? |
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kiss-o-matic
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| Definitely not using it. This was an old build -- I've since moved on to ext3. The added speed I might get isn't really worth it. Already ran fdisk -- ext3 it is. |
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