2013-10-22 14:04:24

Crashing X server

It already happened to me twice. I upgraded Fedora - once it was from F18 -> 19 on one machine and second time on F19 -> 20 on different machine. The symptomp was weird. I booted to GUI, log into KDM and enter in KDE session. Once session has been loaded (application restored, all autoload app loaded, panels restored) - bang - X server crashed.

I hunted and tested zilion of cases. But to make the story short: the cause is upgrade from xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-304xx to xorg-x11-drv-nvidia and in config /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-nvidia.conf was left old path:

Section "Files"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/nvidia-304xx/xorg"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Just edit that path to:

Section "Files"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/nvidia/xorg"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
EndSection

restart X server (or reboot). And problem is solved.


Posted by Miroslav Suchý | Permanent link
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