FC4 2.6.14 issue with startx failing

[dbacon]

It randomly started doing this. It boots up and I get the NVidia Splash
Then I get the normal login.... if i try to login it sits their loading for a bit.. then the kde splash showes up and then it just returns me back to the login screen.

I tryed using nvidia-xconfig and it set my config to be:
"nvidia" instead of "nv"
and GLX

If I do a "modprobe nvidia" it just sticks me back a the command prompt with nothing echoed.

Any idea of what I have screwed up? Newbie here.... so please be patient. any help is definatly appreciated

[netllama]

Please generate and post an nvidia-bug-report.log.

Thanks,
Lonni

[jdehls]

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[dbacon]

Ok I looked in my /var/logs directory and there is no nvidia-bug-report.log listed. How do I trigger it to be generated?

Thanks for the help

[netllama]

Per the NVIDIA README, a bug report is generated by running nvidia-bug-report.sh as root.

Thanks,
Lonni

[dbacon]

Running into a little snaffooo.. I tried running locate and it said that i need to run Updatedb first. That gave me some kind of

fatal error: updatedb: create_db: fopen: '/var/lib/slocate/slocate.db.tmp': Read-only file system

So I tried changing permisions on my "var" directory. That didnt help any.

So I looked in the Nvidia readme and did a search (ctrl-f) and it didnt find "nvidia-bug". So i dont know where that file is. Would you mind pointing me in the right direction?

Thanks for all your help! You guys really are fast to reply! Great forum!

Danny

[netllama]

If you have a read-only filesystem, then you need to get that resolved before you can generate a bug report. The bug report is generated in the same directory where you run the command to generate it.

Thanks,
Lonni

[dbacon]

The only part of my filesystem that is read only is my CDrom and /mnt/ntfs
the ntfs is a vfat filesystem with my windows data on it (mp3, movies, docs, etc)

would that effect that issue?

Anyone know where the nvidia-bug-errorlog.so file is located? I am also logged in as root if that matters. I would assume that being root is a good thing in this case.

Thanks!

Danny

[netllama]

Did you install the official NVIDIA driver package, or are you using a 3rd party version? The official bug report is always installed in /usr/bin/nvidia-bug-report.sh which is in every user's $PATH by default.

-Lonni

[dbacon]

I just did a search in /urs/bin by going to the /bin directory and typing:
dir nvidia*

and it displayed nothing... so it looks like it is missing.....

I used the installation from yum command. From Livna. How can I install the one from the NVIDIA site using command line?

I have the ability to ssh into my server, but i have no GUI

Thanks!!

Danny

[netllama]

See:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html

You can use wget to download the driver package.

-Lonni

[dbacon]

awesome! I will check that out right now! thanks for the help! I am a total Newbie! but getting better everytime i break something! lol

Danny