After slackpkg upgrade-all startx fails with libXfont2.so.2 error
RPI3, Slackware ARM current.
After a couple, maybe 3-4 weeks I did the slackpkg update and then slackpkg upgrade-all and there was a fair amount of stuff but no errors or anything. After logging in as regular user and typing startx I get: Code:
/usr/libexec/Xorg: error while loading shared libraries: libXfont2.so.2: Cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I can ssh -Y in and get a firefox or thunar window but startx is dead. I tried a reinstall of all the xfce packages and also tried startx as root with the same (non-) results What have I borked this time? |
I'm not sure how an upgrade-all did this .... maybe Stuart knows why.
This sort of thing happens when you do version upgrade without first doing install-new .... but this is not your case. It looks like you're missing libXfont2-2.0.1-arm-1 If it's a Slackware package that should contain your missing lib/dependency (and in this case there's no doubt that is should be) you can proceed to download MANIFEST.bz2 from http://slackware.uk/slackwarearm/sla...ent/slackware/ (or whatever is the appropriate URL fro your version for any readers doing similar on different versions). Then use /usr/bin/less to search in MANIFEST.bz2 (without decompressing it as long as bzip2 is installed on your system) for the package that might contain what you're missing. |
When using current, packages could always be added and removed. So before doing upgrade all do
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# slackpkg install-new |
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I've never used -current before and I never paid much attention to the install-new switch, my bad for not RTFM. |
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