apt-get dist-upgrade, and X issues

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Sat, 12/5/09, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:

> From: stan <stanb at panix.com>
> Subject: apt-get dist-upgrade, and X issues
> To: "Ubuntu Linux List" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Saturday, December 5, 2009, 12:21 PM
> I just did an apt-get dist-upgrade on
> a 9.10 box, and when I rebooted. I
> get a message about running in low-res mode. It says
> "(EE)XKB: no
> components provided for virtual cire keyboard.
> 
> This machine has a Nvidia graphics card, and the Xorg.0.log
> file seems to
> indicate that the nvidia module was laoded corectly:
> 
> This seems to e the root cause of the problem:
> 
> (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core
> keyboard
> (WW) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB
> keymap
> [config/dbus] couldn't take over org.x.config:
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Disconnected (Connection was
> disconnected before
> a reply was received)
> [config/hal] couldn't add match rule:
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Disconnected (Connection is
> closed)
> [config/hal] cannot detect a HAL startup.
> 
> What can I do to fix this?
> 
Welcome to the club and I don't know know a permanent fix as I've been suffering from a low res issue for a few weeks now on my 64 bit Karmic with kubuntu-desktop.  Do you have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file? If so, copy and pasted it to your reply.
After you close out the startup low res error message, did you try any of the suggestions to fix or read the log file, etc?  What did the X logs say?
If you can't get into X windows from the command tty using startx, you might try:
sudo restart dbus
sudo restart hal
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm(or kdm, whichever you use) restart(all one line)
None of the suggestions are a fix but may get you into X windows(gnome or kde) so you can use your machine.  The more error messages you can give the list, the more help likely to come.
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net