[SOLVED] X won't run without /usr/local/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper

RandomTroll · 05-07-2018, 11:22 PM

I did some spring cleaning, deleted obsolete files (so I thought). That included /usr/local/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper , which was ancient; I had a newer version in /usr/libexec Years ago I had an X problem that I dealt with by building my own X software (pain!). This must be a relic I forgot to clean out. But after I deleted it X wouldn't run. Fortunately I could link the version in /usr/libexec to /usr/local/libexec I don't see how this makes sense. Xorg.3.log records:

Quote:

[146085.309] (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card0)
[146085.309] (EE) /dev/dri/card0: failed to set DRM interface version 1.4: Permission denied

[146087.488] (EE) intel(0): [drm] failed to set drm interface version: Permission denied [13].
[146087.488] (II) intel(0): [drm] Contents of '/sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/clients':
[146087.488] (II) intel(0): [drm] command pid dev master a uid magic
[146087.488] (II) intel(0): [drm] fbi 22152 0 y y 1000 0
[146087.488] (II) intel(0): [drm] Xorg 22517 0 n y 0 0
[146087.488] (EE) intel(0): Failed to claim DRM device.
[146087.488] (II) UnloadModule: "intel"
[146087.488] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
[146087.488] (EE)
Fatal server error:
[146087.488] (EE) no screens found(EE)
[146087.488] (EE)

Running as root made no difference.

A duckduckgo searched turned up a thread on LQ from a fellow who had the same symptoms but never solved them. Sorry.

Does this make sense to anyone?

RandomTroll · 05-08-2018, 06:04 PM

I figured it out. When I built my own X, I kept on using /etc/dbus-1; when I went back to package X, the installation program respected it, installed its files in /etc/dbus-1.new. Although there's no reference to the local version of launch-helper, somehow they referred to it.

_roman_ · 05-08-2018, 06:11 PM

Just asking: Why does not your package manager cleans up old software? lint?

I would not touch dbus

Quote:

ASUS-G75VW /home/roman # equery depends sys-apps/dbus
* These packages depend on sys-apps/dbus:
app-accessibility/at-spi2-atk-2.24.1 (>=sys-apps/dbus-1.5[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?])
app-accessibility/at-spi2-core-2.24.1 (>=sys-apps/dbus-1[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?])
app-admin/cgmanager-0.41 (sys-apps/dbus)
app-admin/openrc-settingsd-1.0.1 (sys-apps/dbus)
app-admin/system-tools-backends-2.10.2 (>=sys-apps/dbus-1.1.2)
app-crypt/gcr-3.20.0 (>=sys-apps/dbus-1)
app-emulation/wine-any-2.21 (sys-apps/dbus[abi_x86_32(-),abi_x86_64(-)])
app-emulation/wine-any-3.7 (udisks ? sys-apps/dbus[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?])
app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.21 (dbus ? sys-apps/dbus)
dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.110 (>=sys-apps/dbus-1.8[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?])
dev-libs/glib-2.52.3 (>=sys-apps/dbus-1.2.14)
dev-libs/libunique-3.0.2-r1 (sys-apps/dbus[X])
dev-perl/Net-DBus-1.1.0 (sys-apps/dbus)
dev-python/dbus-python-1.2.6-r1 (>=sys-apps/dbus-1.8)
dev-python/pyatspi-2.24.0 (>=sys-apps/dbus-1)
dev-qt/qtdbus-5.9.5 (>=sys-apps/dbus-1.4.20)
dev-vcs/subversion-1.10.0 (gnome-keyring ? sys-apps/dbus)
(kwallet ? sys-apps/dbus)
games-util/steam-client-meta-0-r20180201 (trayicon ? sys-apps/dbus)
(!steamruntime ? sys-apps/dbus[abi_x86_32])
gnome-base/dconf-0.26.1 (sys-apps/dbus)
gnome-base/gconf-3.2.6-r4 (>=sys-apps/dbus-1.6.18-r1[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?])
media-libs/libsdl2-2.0.8-r1 (dbus ? >=sys-apps/dbus-1.6.18-r1[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?])
media-sound/fluidsynth-1.1.9 (dbus ? >=sys-apps/dbus-1.6.18-r1[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?])
media-sound/pulseaudio-11.1 (dbus ? >=sys-apps/dbus-1.0.0[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?])
(bluetooth ? >=sys-apps/dbus-1.0.0)
media-video/vlc-3.0.2 (dbus ? sys-apps/dbus:0)
net-im/discord-bin-0.0.5 (sys-apps/dbus)
net-libs/glib-networking-2.50.0 (test ? sys-apps/dbus[X])
net-libs/libpcap-1.8.1-r2 (dbus ? sys-apps/dbus[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?])
net-print/cups-2.2.7 (dbus ? >=sys-apps/dbus-1.6.18-r1[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?])
net-print/cups-filters-1.20.3 (dbus ? sys-apps/dbus)
net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-2.6-r6 (dbus ? sys-apps/dbus)
sys-auth/consolekit-1.2.1 (sys-apps/dbus)
sys-auth/rtkit-0.11-r2 (sys-apps/dbus)
sys-libs/libnih-1.0.3-r3 (dbus ? >=sys-apps/dbus-1.2.16)
sys-power/pm-utils-1.4.1-r7 (sys-apps/dbus)
sys-power/upower-0.99.7 (sys-apps/dbus)
www-client/firefox-bin-59.0.3 (>=sys-apps/dbus-0.60)
www-client/google-chrome-66.0.3359.139 (sys-apps/dbus)
www-client/opera-52.0.2871.99 (sys-apps/dbus)
www-client/seamonkey-bin-2.49.1_rc2 (>=sys-apps/dbus-0.60)
x11-base/xorg-server-1.19.5-r1 (systemd ? sys-apps/dbus)
x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-396.18-r1 (tools ? sys-apps/dbus)
x11-misc/notification-daemon-3.20.0 (sys-apps/dbus)
x11-misc/xdg-utils-1.1.2-r1 (sys-apps/dbus)

A proper distro has a proper package manager.
than it is the developers job to add those dependencies (which gentoo only hardly does)

You see it is a core component when you want a X server with old behaviour, before systemd infestion. not sure what wayland does.

RandomTroll · 05-08-2018, 09:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by _roman_

Why does not your package manager cleans up old software?

Because one may have changed a configuration file. When Slackware upgrades a package with a configuration file, if the old ones have changed it leaves them in place and names the new ones with .new added. This is usually the right thing to do. I neglected to fix up this case.

Searching for an answer to this question, I found an old thread on LQ from a guy who had exactly the symptoms I reported. The thread went unsolved. I hope this helps others.