Slackware 14 - Problems Starting X
 

I think I posted this in the wrong forum the first time... Here goes again.

I downloaded Slackware 14 64-bit to a DVD and installed it yesterday. After the installation was completed and the computer rebooted I attempted to startx at the root prompt and received the following error:

error while loading shared libraries libgcrypt.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I attempted to run xorgsetup an at the x server screen I chose "yes" to probe hardware and received the same error:

error while loading shared libraries libgcrypt.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I then attempted to run xorgconfig and received: command not found

I thought maybe there was an error during installation so I re-installed the OS twice again and had the exact same experience. I searched google but was not able to find anything meaningful.

If I left out any vital information please let me know what is needed.

Thanks in advance,

First edit /etc/slackpkg/mirrors and remove that # from one mirror
the run that command

slackpkg install libgcrypt

I'll be up front... you are dealing with a newbie.

I'm not sure if this is normal or not but I can't even use ping or ifconfig. I get the error: command not found

I was just trying to verify network connection before looking or the package. I'll try the DVD.

Thanks for all your help!

You missed a couple of steps. If this is his first time using slackpkg, he will need to do the following first:

Then after these, he can issue:

To the OP. Any particular reason you did do a full install?

slackpgk: command not found

I think I have bigger problems... :-)

Did you do a full install? Because it kinda sounds like you didn't. If you are new to Slackware, you really should start with a full install.

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Thanks for the quick response Ruario. I did choose Full Install (recommended). When I began having problems I assumed that I didn't choose full so I completely re-installed from scratch and had the same problems. In fact I did that twice doubting myself.

How about fixing a typo. It should be slackpkg.

Try to use more TAB key on the command line. It will autocomplete the commands for you so you will decrease the probability of such typos. Next time type slackp<TAB> and it will expand to slackpkg

To ensure you have everything installed, mount your slackware DVD, switch to root, cd into the mount point and issue the following:

Note: I am presuming you have Slackware 14 and use bash as your shell.

What sort of partition schema did you setup to install onto?

Can you ls /bin /usr/bin etc to see if the binary for ping for example is actually there?

Also, are you logged in as root? ifconfig for example will return command not found if you aren't root I believe, ping should work as a normal user though

I am logged in as root. When looking at the /bin and /usr/bin I see a lot of stuff but no ping. As for "slackpkg" I made a typo in the forum but I double checked the command history and it was correct. Also also tried slackp then TAB there are no options. If I do a slack then TAB I see "slackdtxt" and "slacktrack".

I am running Slackware 14 and bash shell.

The partitions are Linux Swap 8000MB and the remainder are primary ext4 on a 250GB harddrive.

I issued the following command in the installation media directory and it went through a ton of packages but indicated that it was skipping because they were already installed.

Ok, try reinstalling just the packages that contain ping and slackpkg. Once again mount your Slackware DVD, switch to root, cd into the mount point and issue the following:

Any errors?

Could you also try the following (also as root):

And report what it says.

oh and issue the following (as root) and print back the results:

The result of - echo $PATH: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/user/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib64/kde4/libexec:/usr/lib64/qt/bin:/usr/share/texmf/bin

After issuing: upgradepkg --install-new slackware*/n/iputils-*.txz slackware*/ap/slackpkg-*.txz
I get file not found...

I looked in the /mnt/dvd/slackware64/n/ directory and found iputils-s20101006-x86_64-2.txz but not one that ends in .tgz
I tried the upgradepkg --install-new on the .txz file and it said it was being skipped because it was already installed.

Then I looked in the /mnt/dvd/slackware64/ap/ directory and found slackpkg-2.82.0-noarch-8.tgz no not one that ends in .txz
I tried the upgradepkg --install-new on the .tgz file and it said it was being skipped because it was already installed.

It seems strange that I had exactly the opposite of what we were looking for. :-)

Here are the results of which slackpkg:
which: no slacpkg in (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/user/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib64/kde4/libexec:/usr/lib64/qt/bin:/usr/share/texmf/bin)

Here are the results of which ping:
which: no ping in (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/user/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib64/kde4/libexec:/usr/lib64/qt/bin:/usr/share/texmf/bin)

I made another typo in the results section regarding "which slack" but this was correct in the console.

Please post the output ofPlease use code-tags to post output from commands and the commands itself. If you don't know how to use them just look at the link in my signature.

Nah, I just wrote a bad example. I should have used *.t?z. My fault. In any case you confirmed they were both installed.

This however makes no sense (I'm ignoring your mistype, as I read your later comment).

I'll be very interested in your response to TobiSGD's question.

Actually I think TobiSGD meant:

Same for both...

cannot access /usr/sbin/slackpkg: no such file or directory
cannot access /usr/bin/slackpkg: no such file or directory

Thank you so much for digging into this with me!

I'm not sure if this is relevant but...
"locate slackpkg" gives: /var/log/packages/slackpkg-2.82.0-noarch-8

So you your package database /var/log/packages/* appears to not be in sync with what is actually installed/available. Hmm ...

What is your partitioning scheme? Did you put /usr on its own partition and if yes, is it actually mounted?

Newbie here...sorry :-) I accepted the defaults for most options.

I do know that /dev/sda2 is mounted at / and /usr is under / along with /etc, /home, /root, /lib, /opt, /var and list goes on.

Of course, seems to me that this thread attracts typos. ;)

Anyways, there seems to be something seriously wrong with this machine. I would recommend to make a clean re-install and see if the same or at least similar issues occur again. If so, this might as well be a hardware problem (failing disk or memory would come to my mind).

But before you do that, I would like to see the output of the commandsSince the output of the ls command will be rather lengthy (~420 files) please don't forget to use code-tags for the output of those commands.

df -h:

/dev/sda2 size: 222G - Used: 6.0G - Avail: 205G - Mounted /
tmpfs size: 1.9G - Used: 0G - Avail: 1.9G - Mounted /dev/shm
/dev/sr0 size: 2.3G - Used: 2.3G - Avail: 0G - Mounted /mnt/dvd

ls /usr/sbin resulted in about 151 results. I don't have a way to copy/paste here and that's a lot to type! :-)

I've installed 3 times with this media with the same result. I'm going to re-burn the media and try again. I'll post an update...

I have some extra software installed on my system, but not enough that I have 270 files more in that directory than a standard install.
Also, 6GB used space seems to little for me for a full install, but I currently have no clean install to compare.

While burning the media again I had some errors. I'm downloading again and will try again. I'll update... Thanks again.

What about

The thing is that while upgrading over the internet, I've managed to install a package but no files were copied and the resulting file in /var/log/packages was empty (emlisted 0 files) althoigh installpkg insisted, that it was already installed. Had to do removepkg and then again installpkg.

I have slack-14 32-bit standard full install and I have 415 entries in /usr/sbin. So you really are missing files in your system although everything seems to be installed.

For me full install takes around 11G although I've added Java and eclipse there already that might take some room but yes 6G is way too little.

Maybe the slackware iso you installed is a broken

Indeed the OP should check the md5sum on the iso before burning it.

This has been solved. After downloading the iso again the install was perfect. Thank you for all your help!

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