emerge -uvD world Now system cannot boot into X

[smolloy]

Last night I did "emerge world" for the first time on this recent installation. I also recompiled the kernel, but all I changed was to load the driver for my sound card as a module instead of having it compiled right into the kernel. After this finished I tried to reboot they system, but the computer is having problems booting into X. A ton of error messages flash across the screen before the kernel booting messages appear, but they are scrolled off screen before I get a chance to read any of it. I've searched /var/log for any record of this, but with no luck. The only thing I've tried to fix it so far is to chroot to the gentoo partition and run the following

emerge --sync
emerge --update --deep world

But this has not solved the problem.

My questions are, does anyone know if the boot messages are stored anywhere, and if I can get my hands on them from my suse partition??
Also, has anyone any idea of what I can do to fix this (without recompiling)??

[d38dm8nw81k1ng]

if gtk is mentioned in your problems then i am having almost exactly the same problem. for me bittorrent is refusing to load due to gtk not being found or something similar. i think it's possible to roll back your settings by remerging the old files kept in /usr/portage/distfiles in fact i'll try that myself.

[genesus]

the simplest thing to do, would be to change your inittab back to 3 to boot to cli and not straight to gui...then when you start x just ctl-alt-f1 back to terminal 1 and you will see exactly where the hangup is...no need to reemerge your entire world file!

p.s. not to rub it in, but this is why you should keep your initdefault set to 3

[dylunio]

p.s. not to rub it in, but this is why you should keep your initdefault set to 3

Due to the way gentoo boots and uses it's rc system, if you tell xdm for example to start on boot, it doesn't matter if you have your initdefault set to three, since the bootscript still runs and starts X

So for one to boot straight into cli one would have to use the rc-update command

rc-update del script

and replace script with things that start X such as xdm or gdm.

[jaboua]

[quote="dylunio"]

So for one to boot straight into cli one would have to use the rc-update command

rc-update del script

and replace script with things that start X such as xdm or gdm.

Yeah, it has to be xdm (the xdm initscript can start kdm, entrance, gdm or xdm)

If you have a nvidia card, you will have to remerge nvidia-kernel after every kernel build.

[genesus]

p.s. not to rub it in, but this is why you should keep your initdefault set to 3

Due to the way gentoo boots and uses it's rc system, if you tell xdm for example to start on boot, it doesn't matter if you have your initdefault set to three, since the bootscript still runs and starts X

So for one to boot straight into cli one would have to use the rc-update command

rc-update del script

and replace script with things that start X such as xdm or gdm.

Oh, I never thought about running a dm...

[loft306]

smolloy
by chance do you have an nvidia gfx card? if so check the versions of nvidia-glx & nvidia-kernel match in the major #'s like 1.0.7667 and 1.0.7667-r1 will work together but 1.0.7676-r1 & 1.0.7667 wont work together!( for somereason with my last emerge sync and emerge -uD world the versions emerged messed up)
/me delt with this one earlier today

if this is the cause then you will have to mask the offending pkg in

 /etc/portage/package.mask

[smolloy]

Hi guys,
Thanks for the help.

I set inittab to boot into single-user mode (init=1) so I could get a look at the error messages. There are dozens of them that scroll by very quickly, but they all seem to be roughly the same

rm: Cannot remove 'sys/........' : Operation not permitted

It seems to be attempting to remove every single file in /sys during boot , but it doesn't have the right permissions.

loft306: I don't think I have an nVidia card, but I'm not sure Here's the output of lspci,

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS200/RS200M AGP Bridge [IGP 340M] (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 340M]
0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV]
0000:00:08.0 Modem: ALi Corporation M5457 AC'97 Modem Controller
0000:00:09.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01)
0000:00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6912 Cardbus Controller
0000:00:0b.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50)
0000:00:0b.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50)
0000:00:0b.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51)
0000:00:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
0000:00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4)
0000:00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 330M/340M/350M

As a solution I'm sure I could unmerge everything, but then I wouldn't be able to merge world again, and surely that's one of the benefits of running gentoo??

Thanks for the help guys.

[jaboua]

Seems like you have an ATI:

0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 330M/340M/350M

[smolloy]

Thanks guys.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to repair my gentoo installation, and clear the error messages??

Cheers