Good Day

I have an OS: slackware 14.0, suddenly my XFCE Desktop won't start, I even tried using startx, startxfce4 or changing my user and start another session..

Here is the error when I'm trying to start the XFCE

http://i.imgur.com/0fh7Oe8.jpg

Do you have other user than root in your system?

It's better to test X with a regular user first

yep already tried that.. same error..

Did you make any updates that probably went wrong recently? This looks a lot like an only partially upgraded system or a system with a somehow mixed package base.

hmm if I remember, I only use installpkg for wget and slapt-get.. that's all.. but wget didn't get installed, only slapt-get.. If this is the case, is there any way for fixing this or restoring back?

What dmesg says about the i915 module? (look at dmesg output after startx, as suggested)

I've sttach here the dmesg.txt

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Reviewing your dmsg output, it seems that the system not being able to load some modules and appearing as being not consistent are merely symptoms, caused by a failing harddisk.
Backup all important data immediately (if you have not anyways already, as recommended), then post the output of

after I tried smartctl this is the error

If you did any gcc upgrades recently, try reverting them.

sorry I'm kinda newbie on slackware, how do I revert it?

You must first find out which updates you made. Slackware doesn't do any automatic updates, so if one was made, it must be you who initiated it. If you remember which tool you used then you can check its logs.

But as an alternative, I can suggest the following. If you accidentally upgraded something to the -current version this should detect and revert it. It will use the slackpkg tool. It should already be installed in a full install, else you can grab a package from a mirror such as:

http://mirror.oss.maxcdn.com/slackware/

(you can find the package under the slackware[64]/ap/ directory). Of course, look into the directory for you Slackware version.

Now do these as the root user:

Step 1: Install slackpkg if it's not already installed by doing
Step 2: Edit the file /etc/slackpkg/mirrors by uncommenting one of the mirror sites (of course choose one that would be fast for you). Be careful: Uncomment one of those in the Slackware[64]-14.0 section, and not Slackware[64]-current!

Step 3: Do
It should download a bunch of files containing the list of packages and updates.

Step 4: Do
Now it should display a list of available upgrades/revertions. If you apply them, your system should come back to its original form with all the official patches applied.

Yeah, so far it seems read errors. Corrupt files on HDD.

Try that from a Live-CD/DVD/USB, so that you have a known good OS for testing, most likely your OS is corrupted beyond repair due to the harddisk problems.

I tried this one but am having a problem on using update, there's an error pertaining that I don't have wget, i tried installing wget by manually MAKE, but it produce more error.