Gentoo + nVidia driver bizar issue, strange logs

qbic2005

Hello,

Gentoo has been running fine for me until the last update, the kernel and RC scripts boot well, but X starts to a blank screen.

I have a nVidia card (Geforce 7600 GS) and use the proprietary drivers.
My first reaction was to check the Xorg.0.log file, but it is totally screwed up, completely wicked as you can see:

Jimini · l33t Joined: 31 Oct 2006 Posts: 605 Location: Germany

You could try the following: delete Xorg.0.log (the linked one seems to contain stuff from /var/log/emerge-fetch.log?) and restart X. Does this give you some helpful error-messages in your new Xorg.0.log?

Best regards,
Jimini
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qbic2005 · Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 4:59 pm Post subject: Solved

Thanks Jimini :!:

It doesn't only produce a normal Xorg.0.log, it also boots nicely to X :twisted:

A bit strange that a corrupted log file can crash your system, smells like a nice bug report to me

bendeguz · Apprentice Joined: 10 Feb 2010 Posts: 189

A few days ago I found dmesg log in my Xorg.0.log file

Jimini · l33t Joined: 31 Oct 2006 Posts: 605 Location: Germany

Do you two use reiserfs? I've read of problems with reiserfs-partitions, where files contained the content of other files.

Best regards,
Jimini
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bendeguz · Apprentice Joined: 10 Feb 2010 Posts: 189

qbic2005 · Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 3:15 pm Post subject:

I have ext3 for all major partitions except my home which is reiserfs.
I still have the same issue though, this time my Xorg.0.log is totally binary. However I succeeded in starting correctly the next time.

Just remembered, I enabled automount on my ntfs drive lately, indeed that does it, I disabled the ntfs automount and cleared my log folder again, problem solved.

No why does it do that??

my line in fstab is, nothing wrong with that?
/dev/sda1 /mnt/drive_c ntfs users,gid=users,umask=0222,rw 0 0

qbic2005 · Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 11:37 am Post subject:

This topic seems related in some way...
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-832867-highlight-ntfs.html?sid=061806b1e5aa9093f5f746a27df37e28

It is however not clear for me what could cause such an error, if anybody knows some extra tests, I 'm prepared to give it a try.