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xorg broken vmware upgrade 6.06 to feisty

Bug #90139 reported by Paul Hoch
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Chris Rose

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xorg

I have a VMWare virtual machine that was running 6.06 and I have attempted to upgrade to feisty. Can't get X to start even with default configurations.

Error output is:

(EE) Module ABI Major version (0) doesn't match server's version (1)
(EE) Failed to load module "vmware" (module requirement mismatch, 0)
(EE) No drivers available.

I have attempted to reconfigure x several times, including trying to use vesa but I've had no luck. This appears to be specific to the upgrade as I have a "fresh" install also on VMWare and I don't have the same issue.

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Chris Rose (chris-vault5) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. Have you also upgraded VMWare tools inside the VM?

Changed in xorg:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Paul Hoch (paulbhoch) wrote :

Yes I did. I had to upgrade my version of VMWare in order for the tools to build. Once I upgraded my version of VMWare I reinstalled the VMWare tools and rebuilt them. It built successfully and appears to be running.

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Chris Rose (chris-vault5) wrote :

Thanks.

Can you please upgrade your copy of feisty to the latest, reinstall VMWare tools and see if this goes away? Xorg has been updated a lot recently and this bug might have been zapped along the way.

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assignee: nobody → chris-vault5
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Paul Hoch (paulbhoch) wrote :

Sorry - I upgraded again tonight and reinstalled VMWare tools. Still getting the same error and I'm not able to get an X session running using any combination of drivers/configs.

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

Please attach Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf so we can have a look.

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Paul Hoch (paulbhoch) wrote :

Here is the xorg.conf

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Paul Hoch (paulbhoch) wrote :

Here is the log.

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Paul Hoch (paulbhoch) wrote :

With the latest round of updates, my system will only boot into recovery mode. I did an upgrade yesterday and then again today and I'm still stuck. If I boot "normally", it gets to the point where it attempts to start x, then gives me the "failed to start x would you like to see log..." at which point I hit no, then it says "X is disabled" and I hit ok, then the "X is disabled" message comes back up and the system is stuck. If I hit alt-f8 I see "Running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local) [ OK ] " and then nothing. alt-f1 shows "X Server is now disabled. Restart GDM when it is configured correctly" with "OK" highlighted but it does not respond to input. alt f2 - f7 show a single underscore as though it were a cursor. The system sits like this until I "stop" the VM. I have booted into recovery mode several times and attempted to reconfigure X, reinstall VM Tools, etc. all with no luck.

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Paul Hoch (paulbhoch) wrote :

I did another update today and I'm still experiencing the same symptoms. I did manage to get a screen shot of the XServer output which I'm attaching.

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Paul Hoch (paulbhoch) wrote :

I got it fixed today! From the recovery console, I did apt-get remove xserver-xorg, rebooted and then did apt-get install xserver-xorg. That seemed to correct whatever leftover driver was causing the issue.

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

Good to hear, maybe there was something wrong with the config after all..

Changed in xorg:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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