Hello guys! [My linux skill 1/5] So yesterday(2016 june 08) i saw that it where a new update waiting to be updated in the updated manager. Checked it out, and my first reaction was "wft" and then i installed it(as u do....) So to day, my mint linux didnt work anymore!
"Problem is": Promts
" The X server is now disabled. Restart MDM when is configured correctly. "
" [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported. "
Bonus{ (EE) Fatal server error: (EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmenation fault). Please consult the The x.org... }
Havent really find anything help full on the internetz. Hard to do when iam not sure what to look for, so then i thought teksyndicate!
So my first question, what to do?/what can i do? How to repair/reconfigurate X server?
Second is, i tried to find a logfile for the update manager, to see/find out what messed up my mint linux. Is there a way to do that?
apt actually wraps around dpkg in a sense. You are using dpkg when using apt. The update manager basically does the same thing, just not manually from the terminal.
Can you give us a few more details? What kind of update was that? what level in the update manager (1-5)? Was it a security or normal update. Also do you have an AMD,Intel or an Nvidia GPU?
I am not sure actually, but yes I do think it's different. I'm also just a 1/5 linux user ;)
My history log shows both apt-get and synaptic, I think the update manager is using synaptic because there is a lot of that in my log and I never use it manually in the CLI, only apt-get.
Here is a section of my log for someone to confirm if it's synaptic. The first and last I did manually, that's why it's apt-get.
3 should be fine. If you have not changed any setting then the update manager should only install 1-2-3 by default. But xserver updates can be tricky on AMD hardware. The drivers are a bit iffy. Are you using the proprietary drivers and if yes which ones??
You might need to purge the AMD proprietary drivers and reinstall them.
Just wanted to share it with ya all! I see now u have add some things to do, should i do that still or do ou guys have any better ideas now, after this info i just posted?
PS its funny that it actually were xserver i had updated, LOL ?!
Mind posting the content of /var/log/Xorg.0.log if it's not there look at ~/.local/share/xorg. If setting modeset to 0 doesn't work we need to purge the drivers.
SSH is possible, or he could redirect the output to a file, mount an USB stick or whatever via CLI so he could transfer the file to a working PC and paste it here.
Hello again @spidernet@turin231@Zumps !! A small update: Ive check the settings in bootloader as u told me to do, everything was fine there.. [it was already set to "quiet splash $vt_handoff"]
Even tryd the other tips in the same thread: "sudo nano /etc/default/grub" and then add nomodeset to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT:
Ive tryd to purge the amd driver and installed it again, that didnt work either sadly. But i think iam doing something wrong so, please wright exactly step by step to purge and install the GPU driver again.