Eeek :shock, Finally managed to install the latest NVIDIA drivers on my Kubuntu 8.10 machine, but now it will only boot to command line :cry2:
How do I get from command line to gui, and how can I make it automatically boot to gui again. Or have I broken it & need to do a complete reinstall :hbang:
EDIT: OK worked out how to start it "startx". But it still doesn't work.
Goes through a series of lines & gets to line 18 which says "usr/bin/x11/x [0x432ad9]"
It then says "Saw signal 11. Server aborting.
giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (erno 111): unable to connect to xserver
xinit: No such process (errno 3): server error."
Looks like I broke it :cry2:
Type: startx
No guarantee it will work - depends how broken it is!
startx has always worked for me when Kubuntu has "lost" its GUI, and it then is usually right again once you reboot.
Can I assume Boinc is still crunching in this state ???. It's the version from the repositories with the boinc, boincmgr, & boinccmd files replaced with 6.6.20 so from what I understand it should at least still be crunching.
Yes, it loads before the GUI so should be running. Did you try startx? Or a reboot? I have had the issue before in Kubuntu 7.04 and that has always worked.
A couple of ways you can check BOINC is running are:
1) use the "w" command and check that load level is approx equal your number of cores. Load average shows three numbers which is CPU load (number of runable processes) averaged over something like 1 minute, 5 mins, and 15 mins.
2) use the boinccmd --get_state command and see what's happening. In the Results section you should see WUs with "active_task_state = 1" when they are running.
Quote1) use the "w" command and check that load level is approx equal your number of cores
That gives a whole heap of 0's beside load average
Quoteuse the boinccmd --get_status command and see what's happening. You should see WUs with something like "active_state = 1" or similar.
can't connect to local host
Looks like I broke it good :pcwhack:
QuoteDid you try startx
Yep, you & Yoda replied while I was editing my first post. Tried rebooting once with no joy. I'll try one more time. If it doesn't work I might as well turn it off until tomorrow afternoon when I'll have to do a reinstall. No use wasting power for nothing :-\
Rebooting again didn't work so I'm going to turn it off now & go to bed. If nobody can come up with a fix it looks like I'll have to reinstall tomorrow when I finish work :hbang:
You might be able to start BOINC manually and at least do some processing... Can you log in?
If you can get a shell and change to the BOINC folder (might be in your home folder), you could use:
% ./run_client --daemon
type top and see if anything is running at 100%, that should be the applications. You may need to cd to the boinc directory to get boinccmd to work.
I can log in but % ./run_client --daemon just gives me an error message (boinc is in /usr/bin).
Nothing is running at more than a couple of percent.
Thought I'd take a chance & reinstall the nvidia driver. Now I get a whole new bunch of error messages when I type startx. But the one that catches my eye is "Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has version 177.82, but this NVIDIA driver component has version 180.29. Please make sure that the kernel module & all NVIDIA driver components have the same version."
So it looks like it didn't overwrite the old kernel. When it was installing it said it couldn't find a kernel for my system so was compiling it's own. Did I do something wrong ???
Buggerit, I don't have the time or patience to keep playing around with this. :hbang: Looks like a system reinstall is in order :cry2:
If I had a quick fix (in Ubuntu) I'd give it to ya to try in Kubuntu, but I don't have one.
The only thing I can think of is to delete your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and reinstall the drivers using envy. But you seem to have done that (or similar) already
Quote from: Rob on April 07, 2009, 04:09:01 PM
Buggerit, I don't have the time or patience to keep playing around with this. :hbang: Looks like a system reinstall is in order :cry2:
I concur! :cry2:
I was going to suggest to do this earlier but I did not as it would have suggested my ignorance, which would have been true. I did have a similar issue with my system and I found that it was quicker to reinstall than trying to find answers how to fix it.. It seems that the already installed drivers needs to be deactivated first before installing newer ones.
I find Linux extremely frustrating. Whenever I try to do anything other than the simplest task something almost always goes wrong, rendering the computer unuseable :hbang: I must have reinstalled Kubuntu on that machine 3 or 4 times in the last 6 months, most times losing several hours of unreported work :cry2:
Anyway. Thanks to all those who tried to help :thumbsup:
Perhaps try another distribution, instead of Kubuntu. There are several flavours of *Buntu (I use Ubuntu) and lots of other distributions.
Yes, some things are difficult to do in Linux - often because there are no ready-made drivers available for hardware. I'll stay out of "why is that", other than to say there are commercial interests at work.
Still, once Linux is all set up, it is safer (more secure) than Windows and a heck of a lot more portable. But I digress.
I've been using Kubuntu for a couple of years now, and yes it can be annoying but if you persevere, read posts on the net on how to get past problems, I find it gets a lot easier, and I love it. Better than having to download spy protection, virus updates and all that rubbish. But one thing I have found is to delete entirely old drivers before trying to install new ones
Dave