(solved) No X with 3.16-3.towo-siduction-686

[michaa7]

With tonight's d-u I manually updated to kernel 3.16-3.towo-siduction-686. Booting this kernel does end in a terminal, not in X.
3.16-2.towo-siduction-686 still working fine.

[melmarker]

which graphics?

[musca]

which driver?

(proprietary drivers need linux-headers-3.16-3.towo-siduction-686)

[tuxic]

Please post your result of:

inxi -F

Edit: Removed some of the empty lines

[michaa7]

Note: Obviously here the *working* kernel 3.16-2 is in use:

$ inxi -F
System:    Host: lintower Kernel: 3.16-2.towo-siduction-686 i686 (32 bit) Desktop: Fluxbox 1.3.5
           Distro: siduction 11.0.5 One Step Beyond - xfce - (201112060028)
Machine:   Mobo: N/A model: K8NF4G-SATA2 v: 1.00
           Bios: American Megatrends v: P1.20 date: 09/20/2005
CPU:       Single core AMD Sempron 2600+ (-UP-) cache: 128 KB clocked at 1607 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA G84 [GeForce 8600 GT]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.1 driver: nvidia Resolution: 1680x1050@59.88hz
           GLX Renderer: GeForce 8600 GT/PCIe/SSE2/3DNOW! GLX Version: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 340.32
Audio:     Card NVIDIA MCP51 AC97 Audio Controller driver: snd_intel8x0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k3.16-2.towo-siduction-686
Network:   Card: NVIDIA MCP51 Ethernet Controller driver: forcedeth
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:13:8f:4b:05:02
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 580.1GB (79.4% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD5000AVDS size: 500.1GB
           ID-2: /dev/sdb model: ST380011A size: 80.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 24G used: 19G (82%) fs: ext3 dev: /dev/sda1
           ID-2: /home size: 21G used: 14G (72%) fs: ext3 dev: /dev/sdb9
           ID-3: /var size: 9.6G used: 4.0G (44%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 34.5C mobo: 30.0C gpu: 54C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 1757 fan-1: 0 fan-3: 0 fan-5: 0
Info:      Processes: 147 Uptime: 3 min Memory: 368.4/1009.0MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.1.28

And only to be clear, I booted the 3.16-3 kernel twice tonight and now again, with the same outcome, no X, whereas kernel 3.16-2 everytime boots to X. So this is not a system hickup but a real different reproducible behaviour of the 3.16-3 kernel.

[towo]

dkms status

[michaa7]

I am sorry so say, but this thread unfortunately is a "stupid me" thread. I forgot to install the headers which here obviously are needed for the propriatary nvidia driver.

I since years know I have to install image AND headers, and I allways do it this way. It seems I was too tired tonight.

Sorry for the noise, towo, kernel  3.16-3 works perfectly as all your kernels did over the last years.

Thanks.

[dibl]

@micha, I think you do not have this package installed:

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root@imerabox:/# apt-cache policy linux-headers-siduction-amd64
linux-headers-siduction-amd64:
  Installed: 3.16-7
  Candidate: 3.16-7
  Version table:
     3.17~rc6-3 0
          1 http://packages.siduction.org/extra/ experimental/main amd64 Packages
 *** 3.16-7 0
        500 http://packages.siduction.org/base/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

If you install it, then each kernel upgrade will also pull in the applicable headers package.   

[michaa7]

Dibl, you are right, but I don't have the kernel meta packages installed on purpose because I don't want to pull each kernel. As said, I am totally aware of the packages I have to install and I am managing it since years. It was a stupid oversight this night.

Thanks anyway.

[tuxic]

Chill out! We're humans after all!!!