<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 07/08/2010, at 2:27 PM, Nick Rout wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 12:01 PM, John Haywood <<a href="mailto:john@jhit.com.au">john@jhit.com.au</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I recently upgraded my mythbuntu box from 9.10 to 10.04, with medibuntu and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">avenard repos.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The nouveau drivers were loaded by default, which I have blacklisted and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">installed the 256 nvidia eries from the avenard repo. This builds and loads<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">perfectly.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On reboot X tries to load, but dumps me back into the login window. I can<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">only perform a console login at this point.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">If I drop down into run level 3, log in as root, then startx, all works<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">with nvidia driver and all.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Suggestions?<br></blockquote><br>yes, read /var/log/Xorg.0.log (before running startx as it will<br>overwrite the log, although I think one or two are kept by default).<br><br>By the way startx is not used by *buntu, gdm starts X.<br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Thanks for that, Nick, but I've checked the logs and there's no errors there - just a couple of warnings regarding te Sony Bravia's misreporting its capabilities, but no fatalities. I wonder if GDM is failing to start the session correctly, but I'm not so familiar with GDM....</div><div><br></div><div>Also the mysql service seems not to reliably start - a bit hit and miss, and, even if it does, mythbackend never starts.</div><div>Upstart (start mythtv-backend) fails, showing a success message with PID, but no process running, and the only current way to start the backend is the use 'mythbackend &'. This lasts for about 10-12 hours, then dies</div><div><br></div><div>should I break this question p into smaller queries to the list, or change Subject, as it really looks as though the upgrade has not taken properly...</div><div><br></div><div>thanks</div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>John Haywood</div><div><br></div><div><font color="#E51A11"></font> Apple Certified System Administrator</div></span>
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