Kde 4.2 won't login after xorg-server-1.6.1.901-1 upgrade

I upgraded my system this afternoon, but when the upgrade completed all my window decorations were gone and plasma as down. I restarted kde from virtual console 1 and the login screen was brought up. Now when i go to login i get stuck in an endless loop. I type in my username and password, and then after a few seconds the login window reappears.
I checked /var/log/errors.log and there are a number of lines like this:
kdm_greet[3623]: Cannot open default user face
i then installed gdm which wouldn't log me in either, but gave an error along the lines of xclient doesn't exist
this error occured after installing xorg-server-1.6.1.901-1
any help would be appeciated as i can't use arch at all atm!

sorry, i forgot to mention it. I've tried both of those things and niether helped. Same problem. I also changed the permissions on the /tmp directory which removed another error message to the effect of: cannnot save user authorization,
oh and just fyi, my disk is not full, there is at least 5gb free on that partition, so thats not what was causing that error.

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[Solved] Compiling Xorg-server 1.6.3.901.

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5 pkgname=xorg-server
6 pkgver=1.6.3.901
7 pkgrel=1
8 pkgdesc="X.Org X servers"
9 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
10 license=('custom')
11 url="http://xorg.freedesktop.org"
12 depends=('libxfont>=1.4.0' 'openssl>=0.9.8k' 'libpciaccess>=0.10.8' 'libxv>=1.0.4' 'pixman>=0.16.0' 'xkeyboard-config>=1.6' 'xorg-serve
13 makedepends=('glproto' 'libx11>=1.2.2' 'mesa>=7.5.1' 'xf86driproto>=2.1.0' 'xtrans>=1.2.4' 'libxkbfile>=1.0.5' 'randrproto>=1.3.0' 'ren
14 conflicts=('catalyst-utils<=9.2')
15 options=('!libtool')
16 provides=('x-server')
17 groups=('xorg')
18 install=xorg-server.install
19 source=(${url}/releases/individual/xserver/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2
20 xorg-redhat-die-ugly-pattern-die-die-die.patch
21 dpms-dont-reset-lastdeviceeventtime.patch
22 dri2-dontcrash.patch
23 xinerama.patch
24 dga.patch
25 xvfb-run
26 xvfb-run.1)
27 md5sums=('8d43c4cb43e6a10550e68fbbcad10e9d'
28 '1a336eb22e27cbf443ec5a2ecddfa93c'
29 '9ea2e9f5a7192da23c5c573545fe9836'
30 '03cd32862fbfe5f493e108ee7205ade6'
31 '060aaa85d64d26915783e9f6837a666c'
32 'f426f93dfec972ba6f641a8e7d6a9256'
33 '52fd3effd80d7bc6c1660d4ecf23d31c'
34 '376c70308715cd2643f7bff936d9934b')
35
36 build() {
37 cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
38 # Get rid of the ugly pattern
39 patch -Np3 -i "${srcdir}/xorg-redhat-die-ugly-pattern-die-die-die.patch" || return 1
40
41 # Build fixes for new protos
42 patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/xinerama.patch" || return 1
43 patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/dga.patch" || return 1
44
45 # Fixes from http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Server16Branch
46 patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/dpms-dont-reset-lastdeviceeventtime.patch" || return 1
47 patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/dri2-dontcrash.patch" || return 1
48
49 # Fix dbus config path
50 sed -i -e 's/\$(sysconfdir)/\/etc/' config/Makefile.* || return 1
51
52 ./configure --prefix=/usr \
53 --disable-dri2 \
54 --disable-ipv6 \
55 --disable-dri \
56 --disable-dmx \
57 --disable-xvfb \
58 --disable-xnest \
59 --disable-composite \
60 --disable-xcsecurity \
61 --enable-xorg \
62 --disable-xephyr \
63 --disable-glx-tls \
64 --disable-kdrive \
65 --enable-install-setuid \
66 --disable-config-hal \
67 --enable-config-dbus \
68 --disable-record \
69 --disable-xfbdev \
70 --disable-xfake \
71 --disable-xsdl \
72 --disable-static \
73 --sysconfdir=/etc/X11 \
74 --localstatedir=/var \
75 --with-default-font-path=/usr/share/fonts/misc,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/shar
76 --with-xkb-path=/usr/share/X11/xkb \
77 --with-xkb-output=/var/lib/xkb \
78 --without-dri-driver || return 1
79
80 make || return 1
81 make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install || return 1
82
83 install -m755 "${srcdir}/xvfb-run" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/" || return 1
84 install -m644 "${srcdir}/xvfb-run.1" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/man/man1/" || return 1
85
86 rm -rf "${pkgdir}/var/log" || return 1
87
88 install -m755 -d "${pkgdir}/etc/X11" || return 1
89 install -m755 -d "${pkgdir}/var/lib/xkb" || return 1
90
91 # Needed for non-mesa drivers, libgl will restore it
92 mv "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so" \
93 "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.xorg" || return 1
94
95 install -m755 -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}"
96 install -m644 COPYING "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/" || return 1
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/home/user/abs/xorg-server/PKGBUILD: line 77: --with-xkb-path=/usr/share/X11/xkb: No such file or direcotry
Last edited by SpeedVin (2009-09-06 14:00:23)

Heh I missed some part of like like flamelab said , how I do that?
Some time ago I created my own PKGBUILD for xorg-server and toady I want to update it becouse I see some difreces between my PKGBUILD and PKGBUILD from abs tree and I copy the difrrent line
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Jul 29 17:56:28 lenovo1 kernel: thinkpad_acpi: Lenovo ThinkPad S5-S540, model 20B3CTO1WW
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video.use_native_backlight=0
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 08-15 13:36 acpi_video0 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0/backlight/acpi_video0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 08-15 13:36 acpi_video1 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/backlight/acpi_video1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 08-15 13:36 intel_backlight -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card0/card0-LVDS-1/intel_backlight
and everything works again as before 3.16.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver … 0d681c171e
This is another BUG (also occurs to my laptop). I see that the code is ready, so wait for a fix update.
I wonder also whether and where to file a bug report (about fn keys + backlight control).
Last edited by kelloco2 (2014-08-15 12:38:16)

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Hi there,
I have a problem with one of our RD230.
The Server seems to be ok. No Errors in BIOS. SATA Raid configured and so on...
But the server simply won't boot from CD or USB Drive or HDD.
After the whole BIOS Process the server gives a permanent beep and the Digitron shows code 00. The Screen just shows a blinking cursor top left.
Nothing happens.
Removing the RAID, CD Drive, Network Card doesn't help.
Does anyone have an Idea whats going on with this server?
Also setting the J45 Jumper doesn't help.
Thanks in Advance,
Cheers,
Chris

2 Things that can typically fix this issue. Please reseat the memory and if that does not fix it, please reseat the processor.
Questions
1 - Has this system worked prior to this or is this an out-of-box failure?
2 - If it has worked in the past, what changes were made just prior to this issue? (ie Windows Update, BIOS Update, firmware update, driver(s) update, etc.)

Software licensing service won't start after sql server upgrade

having issues with windows server 2008 sp2 64 bit OS where the software license service do not start. and see the server as not genuine. when i run net start slsvc, I got a system error has occurred. system error 34 has occurred. the wrong diskette
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Hi,
Please try the steps below to resolve the issue:
1.net stop slsvc (select yes) in my case it was already stopped.
2.in command prompt type:
3.cd %windir%\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SoftwareLicensing
4.rename the tokens.dat file: ren tokens.dat tokens.old
5.still in the command prompt type cd %windir%\system32
6.type net start slsvc
7.type cscript slmgr.vbs -rilc (this may take a long time)
8.Then reboot the machine twice !!!
9.slmgr.vbs –ipk XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX (assuming you have a MAK key, not a KMS key)
10.To activate your OS, just type: slmgr.vbs –ato
If there any other error message? You could refer to the article below to troubleshoot the issue:
How to troubleshoot Volume Activation error codes in Windows 7, in Windows Server 2008, and in Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;938450
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Mandy
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So the recent xorg update to 1.7.1.901-1 has caused some problems for me. The kickof menu in kde was extremly slow and dvbt stoped working, kaffeine not being able to tune to any channels anymore.
Searching in the forum I found out that the kickof menu broke due to the xorg update. It turned out, downgrading xorg fixed kickof and dvbt.
I described how to do that here
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=84294
and there is also the wiki source. I hope this saves somebody some time :-)
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But will kde be fixed anytime soon to handle the new xorg? Or maybe kde is waiting for xorg to be fixed so that kde will still work . It's annoying to have software components out of date. Moreover I hate having to waste brain cells to check if some package dependency will force xorg to be updated again. After the recent upgrade I first had no X at all. I then had to reinstall the nvidia drivers, but in the past I had used the nvidia shell script to do it because I wanted to try out their openCL drivers.
For the life of me I couldn't figure out how to uninstall the proprietary drivers and it wouldn't let me install nvidia under pacman. I had to delete every conflicting file by hand (sigh). I finally got arch's nvidia to install, but kde will not start at all for me. On boot kde hangs after the first disk drive icon and then a mouse click will send the screen to black.
So far the only solution offered is to downgrade xorg. I'd prefer to run lxde for now until the wrinkles are worked out. But even lxde has some odd windowing behavior now. I use xmonad as my window manager and any window at the right edge of the screen has a defective scroll bar. You'd think the xorg folks would have done some more testing with at the very least kde and gnome prior to release.

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