Did the updates and now boots to Localhost.localdomain screen - Fatal server err

[Cressida]

I waited a few weeks before doing the major update for KDE and did them all this morning.

Now my system boots up and ends with a screen "Welcome to localhost.localdomain   login:________"
1.  When I sign in with my user name it opens two white terminal windows where I have tried the "startx" command with no luck.
2.  Next time I tried running "XFdrake" in the terminal to setup the graphics card again.  It opens a normal looking PCL window for the video card but I still cannot get it to boot into PCL  (guess - maybe something with Xorg?)

I wrote down this error message:    Fatal server error:  Server is already active for display 0.  If this server is no longer running remove /tmp/.xo-lock and start again.   XIO: fatal IO error 11  on X server ":0"

3.  Next time I "su" to root and entered "rm /tmp/.xo-lock" as instructed above.  After rebooting system still boots up to the same screen "Welcome to localhost.localdomain   login:________"

I am not skilled at the terminal commands so if anyone can see what to do please advise - TIA.

I have also "su" to root and opened up the synaptic window again if that will help?

[Bald Brick]

I waited a few weeks before doing the major update and did them all this morning.

Now my system boots up and ends with a screen "Welcome to localhost.localdomain   login:________"
1.  When I sign in with my user name it opens two white terminal windows where I have tried the "startx" command with no luck.
2.  Next time I tried running "XFdrake" in the terminal to setup the graphics card again.  It opens a normal looking PCL window for the video card but I still cannot get it to boot into PCL  (guess - maybe something with Xorg?)

I wrote down this error message:    Fatal server error:  Server is already active for display 0.  If this server is no longer running remove /tmp/.xo-lock and start again.   XIO: fatal IO error 11  on X server ":0"

I am not skilled at the terminal commands so if anyone can see what to do please advise - TIA.

I have also "su" to root and opened up the synaptic window again if that will help?

You seem to have the same problem as the one hughc reported here: http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,112249.0.html. So it appears that you waited a bit too long between updates.

You probably have to reinstall most of your desktop environment. Are you normally running KDE?
 

[Cressida]

Yes I run KDE.   I did an update in first half of February so if anyone has any other options than a new reinstall let me know.  In the past doing a timely update had borked my system so I had been waiting to reduce chance of this happening again. 

I see the latest full version of KDE is 1.3gb so I guess that means no more LiveCD since it will not fit.  For those of us with only a DVD reader (no DVD burner) does that mean start with the MINI KDE - and try to build it up as needed ?

If anyone sees anything else that might be a fix let me know since I might as well try and fix it before starting fresh with a MINI version.   

[Bald Brick]

Yes I run KDE.   I did an update in first half of February so if anyone has any other options than a new reinstall let me know.  In the past doing a timely update had borked my system so I had been waiting to reduce chance of this happening again. 

I see the latest full version of KDE is 1.3gb so I guess that means no more LiveCD since it will not fit.  For those of us with only a DVD reader (no DVD burner) does that mean start with the MINI KDE - and try to build it up as needed ?

If anyone sees anything else that might be a fix let me know since I might as well try and fix it before starting fresh with a MINI version.   

As your last full update was that recent it is quite likely that your problem is not the same as hughc's. You could try installing task-kde4-minimal anyway. It won't hurt even if some of the relevant packages are already installed. You should be able to start Synaptic with the command "synaptic" in one of your two terminals. If you aren't, try the commands:

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apt-get update && apt-get install task-kde4-minimal

[davey]

I posted a similar problem here before seeing yours http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,113840.0.html . Mine happened after upgrading to the latest kernel. Did you do that too? I'll try some of the ideas posted here and report back.

[Old-Polack]

Yes I run KDE.   I did an update in first half of February so if anyone has any other options than a new reinstall let me know.  In the past doing a timely update had borked my system so I had been waiting to reduce chance of this happening again. 

I see the latest full version of KDE is 1.3gb so I guess that means no more LiveCD since it will not fit.  For those of us with only a DVD reader (no DVD burner) does that mean start with the MINI KDE - and try to build it up as needed ?

If anyone sees anything else that might be a fix let me know since I might as well try and fix it before starting fresh with a MINI version.   

You could try to install the task-kde4 package, rather than the task-kde4-minimal. This should give you basically the full KDE4 setup.

As an alternative, you could d/l the full 1.3 GB image, then use the PCLinuxOS Live USB Creator application to produce a bootable USB flash drive, assuming your computer can boot from a USB device. That will work the same as a liveCD/liveDVD with installation being the same from both.

[muungwana]

I waited a few weeks before doing the major update for KDE and did them all this morning.

Now my system boots up and ends with a screen "Welcome to localhost.localdomain   login:________"
1.  When I sign in with my user name it opens two white terminal windows where I have tried the "startx" command with no luck.
2.  Next time I tried running "XFdrake" in the terminal to setup the graphics card again.  It opens a normal looking PCL window for the video card but I still cannot get it to boot into PCL  (guess - maybe something with Xorg?)

I wrote down this error message:    Fatal server error:  Server is already active for display 0.  If this server is no longer running remove /tmp/.xo-lock and start again.   XIO: fatal IO error 11  on X server ":0"

3.  Next time I "su" to root and entered "rm /tmp/.xo-lock" as instructed above.  After rebooting system still boots up to the same screen "Welcome to localhost.localdomain   login:________"

I am not skilled at the terminal commands so if anyone can see what to do please advise - TIA.

I have also "su" to root and opened up the synaptic window again if that will help

For future reference,seeing two terminal windows after you log in usually means X started successfully but the desktop environment failed to start. Your problem is probably caused by library mismatch on the desktop environment caused by a bad update.

running "startx" on one the terminal will complain because that will be attempting to start a second instance of X.

running "startkde" would tell you why it failed to start.

running "XFdrake" is trying to solve a problem you do not have.

Since X is already running. start synaptic and attempt to sort out the desktop environment by trying to reinstall it.

[muungwana]

I posted a similar problem here before seeing yours http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,113840.0.html . Mine happened after upgrading to the latest kernel. Did you do that too? I'll try some of the ideas posted here and report back.

Your problem has nothing to do with the kernel and everything to do with KDE,as a desktop environment.If the problem was the kernel,things would have failed much,much earlier.

Your problem was caused by either recent updates( meaning most users would get the same problem ) or from your installation and uninstallation of those specific kdenetwork packages.

[Cressida]

All of the comments have been helpful.     I think it is something to do with not getting KDE loaded or updated from Synaptic this morning.

I am not certain which repository Synaptic should be using (or directed to for USA user).  I have checked the first two boxes in the list of repositories and did the updates.  I get this warning message (after searching for and marking for installation "task-kde4" (the full package):

"Could not mark packages for installation or upgrade....  

Then a list of about 20 lines of KDE files :

Depends:  KDE-.....

repositories are added or enabled in preferences

I am reading through the forum for repository information but if anyone knows if I should be using ones other than the first two on the list let me know.   (There must be another one, or more, as these two don't seem to be working based on the warning message above)

I did a rpm -qa | grep kdebase comand and results are:  4.6.5-1pclos2011

Also entering command "startkde"    gives   "bash: startkde: command not found"

[muungwana]

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apt-get update && apt-get install task-kde4-minimal

from one of the terminals,log in to root account,run the above commands and post their output.

you should only have one repository selected.

[Hondo]

Yes I run KDE.   I did an update in first half of February so if anyone has any other options than a new reinstall let me know.  In the past doing a timely update had borked my system so I had been waiting to reduce chance of this happening again. 

I see the latest full version of KDE is 1.3gb so I guess that means no more LiveCD since it will not fit.  For those of us with only a DVD reader (no DVD burner) does that mean start with the MINI KDE - and try to build it up as needed ?

If anyone sees anything else that might be a fix let me know since I might as well try and fix it before starting fresh with a MINI version.   

As your last full update was that recent it is quite likely that your problem is not the same as hughc's. You could try installing task-kde4-minimal anyway. It won't hurt even if some of the relevant packages are already installed. You should be able to start Synaptic with the command "synaptic" in one of your two terminals. If you aren't, try the commands:

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apt-get update && apt-get install task-kde4-minimal

I ran into the same problem after an update.

I did the minimal install of KDE and I am now back up & running!

THANK YOU!

[Bald Brick]

Glad if it helped.

[davey]

I had another thread on the same issue. http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,113840.0.html Thanks to ideas there and here, I fixed it by starting Synaptic, removing all things KDE, and installing "task-kde4". What made the difference from all the previous tries was first removing all the kde packages.