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Slim login manager in -Current

I had Slim working with the latest -Current updates, but that was with a package I built before updating.

I borked my system yesterday and had to do a fresh install. Now I can't get Slim working.

I tried running the Slim SlackBuild from Slackbuilds.org, and it failed without giving any errors. I figured out that the problem was with this section:

Code:

( cd $PKG

  find . | xargs file | grep "executable" | grep ELF | cut -f 1 -d : | \

    xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null

  find . | xargs file | grep "shared object" | grep ELF | cut -f 1 -d : | \

    xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null

)

The strip commands were failing and caused the SlackBuild to exit, so I added '|| true' to them.

Code:

( cd $PKG

  find . | xargs file | grep "executable" | grep ELF | cut -f 1 -d : | \

    xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true

  find . | xargs file | grep "shared object" | grep ELF | cut -f 1 -d : | \

    xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true

)

Not sure why this is needed in -Current and not 13, maybe because of Bash 4.1?

Anyway, now the package builds successfully, but Slim won't start.
My system just hangs at a black screen after 'Starting up X11 session manager...'

Has anybody been able to get Slim working in -Current?

MMmmmm

I been having issues with my Slim stuff too

I got Slim from SBOpkg as you did
it boinked at startup and I had to get sysvinit-scripts from SalixOS (thanks gapan)
which adds a place for slim before gdm,etc in /etc/rc.d/rc.4

heres my rc.4

Code:

#! /bin/sh

#

# rc.4                This file is executed by init(8) when the system is being

#                initialized for run level 4 (XDM)

#

# Version:        @(#)/etc/rc.d/rc.4        2.00        02/17/93

#

# Author:        Fred N. van Kempen, <waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org>

# At least 47% rewritten by:  Patrick J. Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com>

#

# Modified for Salix by: George Vlahavas <vlahavas~at~gmail~dot~com>



# Tell the viewers what's going to happen (in red)...

echo -e "\033[01;31mStarting up X11 session manager...\033[00m"



# Try slim first

if [ -x /usr/bin/slim ]; then

  exec /usr/bin/slim

fi



# Then try gdm

if [ -x /usr/bin/gdm ]; then

  exec /usr/bin/gdm -nodaemon

fi



# Someone thought that gdm looked prettier in /usr/sbin,

# so look there, too:

if [ -x /usr/sbin/gdm ]; then

  exec /usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon

fi



# Not there?  OK, try to use KDE's kdm session manager:

if [ -x /opt/kde/bin/kdm ]; then

  exec /opt/kde/bin/kdm -nodaemon

elif [ -x /usr/bin/kdm ]; then

  exec /usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon

fi



# If all you have is XDM, I guess it will have to do:

if [ -x /usr/bin/xdm ]; then

  exec /usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon

elif [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm ]; then

  exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon

fi



# error

echo

echo "Hey, you don't have GDM, slim, KDM or XDM installed.  Can't use runlevel 4"

echo "without one of those installed."

sleep 30



# All done.

mmm..and I think that solved it.

see here too
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...07#post3852707

Thanks for the quick response.

So you have Slim working on the latest Slackware-Current with a package you built on the latest Current?

Because I already added something similar to my rc.4 and Slim fails to start. (black screen)

EDIT:

I see some libpng errors in /var/log/slim.log
I'll try rebuilding slim against libpng 1.4.0 and see if it fixes the problem.

Yes definitely upgrade libpng. I don't use -current but I know libpng was recently fixed.

Piratesmack

yes, I have Slim in Absolute-Live
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Syste...SB-55041.shtml

and also in almost all my *buntu/debian/slack installs

the auto login as root or user is feature not found elseware

Compiling against libpng 1.4.0 didn't help.
Attached is my Slim.log

Not sure if this was a good idea, but I patched the Makefile to use /usr/include/libpng14 instead of /usr/include/libpng12 and now it works!

I just added "sed -i 's/png12/png14/g' Makefile" to the SlackBuild

Well, first of all, SlackBuilds are only tested on the stable version of Slackware, like 13.0, not on the -current version.
If you run -current, you are supposed to be able to change source code, mess around with bash scripts, etc. :)

But, I have SLiM running on -current, after applying the following patch to the png.c file that is included in the source:

Code:

--- slim-1.3.1_orig/png.c        2008-09-25 21:54:15.000000000 -0300

+++ slim-1.3.1/png.c        2010-03-04 21:05:17.894619498 -0300

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@

 #include <stdio.h>

 #include <stdlib.h>

 

-#include <png.h>

+#include <libpng12/png.h>

 

 int

 read_png(const char *filename, int *width, int *height, unsigned char **rgb,

No guarantees here, apply this at your own risk ;)

@piratesmack: We posted at the sabe time :)

Your patch uses the newer libpng, my patch uses the older header file.
Both ways it should work I guess.

I preferred to point at the older libpng, as SLiM was working with the older lib previously, so less chance of surprises!

Thanks for the patch, niels.horn.
Glad to have this working.