Hi all, New install pure64/sid: Ran into X and boot problems after dist-upgrade on Friday. Got this message: "udev has not been fully enabled yet. You may bre able to start udev without rebooting by running /etc/init.d/udev stasrt but this will break some things. If in doubt, please reboot your system ASAP to activate udev." I rebooted and the xserver would not start as detailed in Kristian's thread. I tried Kristian's fix, cleaning out /etc/udev/rules.d, symlinking etc. and tried to reboot. Then I ran into the problem in Rob's "new 2.6.9 kernel" thread and could not reboot on either SATA or ATA drive (I could do that before the upgrade.) I failed to boot Knoppix (2.4 or 2.6) but I had tried that unsuccessfully before the upgrade in any case.
I reinstalled with sid-amd64 iso. Once gdm was installed I got the same udev message above. I rebooted and X won't start, which seems to be the problem Pete is having in his thread. This is the message in Dialog: "GDM: Xserver not found: /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -audit 0 -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7 Error: command could not be executed! Please install the Xserver or edit /etc/gdm/gdn.conf to point to the right place." There is no Xfree86.0.log in /var/log on the amd64 machine. I have not tried anything to fix this yet after running more /boot/initrd.img and having the screen turn into hieroglyphics... (and successfully rebooting into console mode again). I don't have the other driver problems Kristian reported, USB and network drivers are working fine. All this happened after I had my new amd64 system working up and running for about ten minutes. I had SATA disk, network, USB, sound, video all working well and thought I would clean it up with a dist-upgrade. My Debian experience is about a year on woody and three months on sarge so this has been a real initiation into the world of sid! Cheers, Norv
