Upgrade borked my X

[dpeirce]

Although I'm a newbie, I've been running Sabayon 8 in Virtualbox for 4-5 months now with no problem, upgrading every day or so using sulfur. Upgraded day before yesterday and boogered my installation, X won't work, only a terminal. I reinstalled from scratch yesterday and completed the upgrade using equo as described in the wiki ( http://wiki.sabayonlinux.org/index.php? ... ng_Entropy ), including installing entropy and sulfur first, doing the upgrade, doing equo deptest and doing equo conf update. Puts me back at the same terminal with a message that says:

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This is tower-sabayon.unknown_domain (Linux x86_64 3.2.0-sabayon) 16:27:53.

Today, new install, same procedure, same result.

I logged in and issued 'startx', which said:

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.....
EE Module ABI major version (10) doesn't match server (11)
EE Failed to load Module "vboxvideo" (module requirement mismatch, 0)
EE No drivers available
No screens found
.....
Xinit: Unable to connect to X server: No such file or directory

Then I tried equo deptest again, and it said these dependencies are missing:

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entropy-client-services-1.0_rc85
qt-webkit-4.7.0:4(kde)
qt-qt3support-4.7.0:4(accessibility,kde)

I tried to install entropy-client-services, and it said:

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Did you mean one of these?
   entropy:0?
   entropy-server:0?
   entropy-unittest:1?
no packages found

Is there any way to get X back? Any help will be appreciated!

In faith, Dave
Viva Texas

[mélodie]

Hi,
Try "equo install entropy-client-services-1.0_rc85" and such. Perhaps the name with the numbers is the name ? No, it's not that. This is what I found:

https://packages.sabayon.org/quicksearc ... es&x=0&y=0
The problem you meet with looks like a bug... have you tried reinstalling vboxvideo ?

It is one of the following, depending on which kernel is installed in your system:
https://packages.sabayon.org/quicksearc ... er&x=0&y=0

Else, you might have downloaded a daily iso to avoid having all to update... http://na.mirror.garr.it/pub/1/sabayonlinux/iso/daily/

[dpeirce]

Thanks, Mélodie, for your response. I'm waaay out of my depth here. I gather you want me to re-install vboxvideo. And, I didn't use a daily ISO for the install; it was the amd64 K ISO from ( http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=07095 ).

1) '# equo install vboxvideo --ask' yielded "No packages found".

2) '# equo install virtualbox-bin --ask' will install kernel 3.3-r2, new modules, and virtualbox-bin-4.1.10.

3) No modules are installed. Equo wants me to add these modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt, vboxnetadp) to /etc/conf.d/modules. In trying to figure out how to do that, I ran across this: ( http://wiki.sabayon.org/index.php?title ... Virtualbox ). I went through the process (the command involving #'uname -r' didn't work so I reverted to '# equo install virtualbox-modules --ask). Rebooted, back to the same terminal window, 'startx', X not working.

????

In faith, Dave
Viva Texas

[mélodie]

1) '# equo install vboxvideo --ask' yielded "No packages found".

Hi,

It is one of the following, depending on which kernel is installed in your system:
https://packages.sabayon.org/quicksearch?q=virtualbox+video+driver&x=0&y=0

the command involving #'uname -r' didn't work

You must not add quotes nor type in #.
When I write:

$ uname -a

you must open a console and stay as simple user (the $ sign at the end of the prompt) then type uname -a and no quotes. If I write:

# uname -a

then you become root in console and type uname -a just after the end of the prompt. Here you need just to be user for this one command.

I will be looking forward to read your next results.

[dpeirce]

Mélodie: I don't understand your instruction about uname -r. I copied the command verbatim from the Sabayon wiki page at:
http://wiki.sabayon.org/index.php?title ... Virtualbox

And, shortening the command by eliminating the part about uname -r worked, because equo seemed to be aware of which kernel I had.

But the end result is the same: Startx doesn't work, with an error message of "This is tower-sabayon.unknown_domain (Linux x86_64 3.2.0-sabayon)".

I went to the website you recommended:
https://packages.sabayon.org/quicksearc ... er&x=0&y=0

I didn't find an exact match for my kernel (3.3-r2) for the Guest Additions or the modules, but did them for 3.3.0-sabayon. Is that close enough? And do I just download them and then install locally with equo?

In faith, Dave
Viva Texas

[dpeirce]

I just noticed something: Equo had told me that it was installing kernel 3.3-r2, but uname -r tells me now that I have kernel 3.3.0-sabayon, which is the same as on the website you showed me. So, do I simply download that kernel's Guest Assistants and Modules and install them locally with equo?

Is that all I need to do?

Thanks.

In faith, Dave
Viva Texas

[apaz]

If you can edit xorg.conf, add the string:

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 Option        "IgnoreABI"   "True"

In:

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Section   "ServerFlags"

and restart the system.

[mélodie]

If you can edit xorg.conf, add the string:

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 Option        "IgnoreABI"   "True"

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Section   "ServerFlags"

and restart the system.

Hi,
Could you tell more about the "IgnoreABI" option ? What is it related to ?

Thanks,
Mélodie

[mélodie]

Mélodie: I don't understand your instruction about uname -r. I copied the command verbatim from the Sabayon wiki page at:
http://wiki.sabayon.org/index.php?title ... Virtualbox

And, shortening the command by eliminating the part about uname -r worked, because equo seemed to be aware of which kernel I had.

Hi,
I just had a look, you believed you copied it but you didn't. You copied just a part which out of the full command line makes no sense. I try to explain you:
This line:

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    # equo install virtualbox-modules#`uname -r`

is the only one containing "uname" in this page, right ?

So let's see what it says:
# equo install virtualbox-modules#`uname -r`

# /first # sign says you are root

equo install /says you are going to install a package

virtualbox-modules#`uname -r` /is the argument to the "equo install" command, and the "#`uname -r` which it contains does tell equo to install whatever virtualbox-modules whose version number matches the one of the kernel installed in your system.

In other words, this command avoids you from searching which virtualbox-modules package you have to look for : type the full command : equo install virtualbox-modules#`uname -r` in a root console, and equo will do the rest.

[apaz]

Hi,
Could you tell more about the "IgnoreABI" option ? What is it related to ?

Hi,
It's a old problem between xorg-server 1.11 e nvidia videocards. I don't know what's module ABI, but the solution is make it off (search on google xorg/nvidia problem).
Sorry for my english.

greetings,
Andrea