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FS#17250 - [nvidia] X fails to start after latest update (libwfb not found)

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Thomas Bergheim (knighthk) - Sunday, 22 November 2009, 22:45 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 23 November 2009, 13:02 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Architecture x86_64
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

After upgrading to the latest xorg-server, x fails with: NVIDIA(0): Need libwfb but wfbScreenInit not found

* Not working: xorg-server-1.7.1.902-1.
* Working: xorg-server-1.7.1.901-2.
extra/nvidia 190.42-1 and extra/nvidia-utils 190.42-2 installed. (Not using testing; everything else up-to-date).


Steps to reproduce:
As of this writing, for me: upgrade the system to current (not using testing), restart x. It will fail, and a tail of the xorg logfile will show the mentioned error-message.
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Monday, 23 November 2009, 13:02 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  User configuration error.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 23 November 2009, 10:23 GMT
Can you attach Xorg.0.log?
Comment by Thomas Bergheim (knighthk) - Monday, 23 November 2009, 12:15 GMT
Of course! Before attaching it I had another look at it, and now it is much more clear what the error is (I didn't notice this before submitting the bugreport):

dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/bak/libwfb.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
142 (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/bak/libwfb.so

And then a quick look in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/bak shows that libwfb.so -> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so.1.4, however the only libwfb.so file there is /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so.

At first I thought "bak" was a system-directory, but after noticing that it autoloads everything under modules, I think it is fair to say this is a directory I must have made a year ago (thought I don't remember doing it). Removing the directory fixed the problem!
   Xorg.0.log.old (9.4 KiB)

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