X server fails to start after 2026/02/13 update

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Hello,

xlibre fails to start after I updated this morning. Didn’t see the notice in time.

I cannot start X client applications from a VT, either. Trying results in a “no X server or specified display” message.

OpenMandriva Lx version:

OpenMandriva Lx release 26.02 (ROME) Rolling for x64_64

Desktop environment (KDE, LXQT…):
XFCE

Description of the issue (screenshots if relevant):
X server fails to start. fpaste is attached. Let me know if you need more.

Relevant informations (hardware involved, software version, logs or output…):

fpaste.txt (34.8 KB)

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First, welcome and thank you for making a post.

The pertinent part appears to be this:

* Xorg errors (grep '^\[.*(EE)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log | cut -d ':' -f 2- ):
     [2026-02-13 18:14:38] (EE) AMDGPU(0): Failed to initialize color management property DEGAMMA_LUT on CRTC0. Property value may not reflect actual hardware state.
     [2026-02-13 18:14:38] (EE) AMDGPU(0): Failed to initialize color management property DEGAMMA_LUT on CRTC1. Property value may not reflect actual hardware state.
     [2026-02-13 18:14:38] (EE) AMDGPU(0): Failed to initialize color management property DEGAMMA_LUT on CRTC2. Property value may not reflect actual hardware state.
     [2026-02-13 18:14:38] (EE) AMDGPU(0): Failed to initialize color management property DEGAMMA_LUT on CRTC3. Property value may not reflect actual hardware state.
     [2026-02-13 18:14:38] (EE) AMDGPU(G0): Failed to initialize color management property DEGAMMA_LUT on CRTC0. Property value may not reflect actual hardware state.
     [2026-02-13 18:14:38] (EE) AMDGPU(G0): Failed to initialize color management property DEGAMMA_LUT on CRTC1. Property value may not reflect actual hardware state.
     [2026-02-13 18:14:38] (EE) AMDGPU(G0): Failed to initialize color management property DEGAMMA_LUT on CRTC2. Property value may not reflect actual hardware state.
     [2026-02-13 18:14:38] (EE) AMDGPU(G0): Failed to initialize color management property DEGAMMA_LUT on CRTC3. Property value may not reflect actual hardware state.
     [2026-02-13 18:14:38] (EE) modeset(G1): drmSetMaster failed: Device or resource busy
     [2026-02-13 18:14:39] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

Check that the following is installed:

dnf list x11-driver-video-amdgpu

If not, please install it and reboot.

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Installed packages
x11-driver-video-amdgpu.x86_64 25.1.0-1 rolling-x86_64

Package was already installed, so that’s not it.

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@NiveusLuna
welcome1

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Thanks for the clarification. It sounds like the install was aborted via doing the upgrade while xorg was running. We do have some guidance to repair that in some of the pinned topics. You could try:

sudo dnf reinstall xlibre*

Otherwise, @bero knows how to possibly repair it without having to reinstall. It’s up to you how you would like to best spend your time on this.

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The X server remained running during the update. There was rather more output than usual, but I wasn’t able to read it before it ran off the screen. I had no idea there was an issue until I rebooted.

reinstalling xlibre as prescribed has not fixed the issue.

Tomorrow morning, I think, I’ll reinstall from my previous XFCE ISO and update. It’s 8 PM and I don’t need this machine until Monday. I’ll post here whether it breaks or not.

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Keep us posted.

I don’t think you can use rollback, but you might be able to get a list of what it tried to update and see if they succeeded:

dnf history --help