[Nix-dev] Merging x-updates

[James Cook]

On 9 September 2013 11:19, James Cook <james.cook at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> On 9 September 2013 02:51, Vladimír Čunát <vcunat at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 09/09/2013 03:33 AM, James Cook wrote:
>>>
>>> Just tried x-updates, and X won't start any more.  Is anyone else
>>> using the open source AMD driver?
>>>
>>> There's something in the X log about "dlopen of /lib/dri/swrast_dri.so
>>> failed", since the file doesn't exist.  Hopefully I'll have time later
>>> to look into this.
>>
>>
>> That is strange, as nothing related to path search has changed. The drivers
>> are configured by passing --with-dri-searchpath pointing to
>> /run/opengl-driver{,-32} (depending on your platform). I even verified that
>> the source still uses the the path on dlopen. The link should be setup when
>> starting X server (nixos does that).
>>
>> More info from logs could help.
>
> Oops, looks like the dlopen error also happened when X was working.
> Here's X.0.log on a successful run:
>   https://gist.github.com/falsifian/6499433
> I'm away from my machine right now, but I'll post the log file for an
> unsuccessful run when I get a chance.

Problem solved; it was my fault.  My nixos repo wasn't up to date with
my nixpkgs repo.  X works for me now.

James