Startx failure

slack_ · 10-27-2013, 12:05 AM

One problem here, before I explain the title, is that I haven't logged in to Slackware in a few days as I've been very busy. So unfortunately I can't exactly remember what I would have done that could have messed this up. I do remember installing thunar and dependencies, and I think that might have something to do with it. Here's the error I get when I run startx:

Code:

xauth:  file /root/.serverauth.2056 does not exist

/usr/bin/X: error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
xinit: server error

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful, I'm new to Slackware.

andrewthomas · 10-27-2013, 12:11 AM

are you starting x as root?

slack_ · 10-27-2013, 12:14 AM

Yes I am.

TommyC7 · 10-27-2013, 12:29 AM

Seems like X11 can't find libudev.so.0 which is part of the "udev" package. Double check to make sure you have that package installed.

slack_ · 10-27-2013, 01:25 AM

I've also noticed other errors pertaining to things like libkmod.so.0 and a few other lib*.so.0's. However:

Code:

ls /var/log/packages | grep udev

outputs:

Code:

udev-182-i486-5

Although I believe this was one of the packages I had to install in order to install Thunar. I opted out of installing Xfce, but later decided that I did want Thunar.

Drakeo · 10-27-2013, 01:27 AM

for some odd reason a while back going from 14.0 to current 14.1 rc1 x86 it did that to me. I did "a" slackpkg reinstall "a" and it reinstalled all of "a". I was not at the desk during the upgrade and figured something went wrong and I missed it. Funny thing is that system has been upgraded through the years from 10.2 up with slackpkg. And another note I did not do a system clean on it before a distro upgrade.
Don't know if this helps you but you never know.

ponce · 10-27-2013, 01:54 AM

If you're new to Slackware, maybe it can be easier for you to do a full installation: only those are officially supported.

if you have installed a 32bit slackware, to switch to a full installation using slackpkg (after having configured a mirror in /etc/slackpkg/mirrors)

Code:

slackpkg update
slackpkg install slackware

slkrover · 10-27-2013, 11:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ponce

If you're new to Slackware, maybe it can be easier for you to do a full installation: only those are officially supported.

if you have installed a 32bit slackware, to switch to a full installation using slackpkg (after having configured a mirror in /etc/slackpkg/mirrors)

Code:

slackpkg update
slackpkg install slackware

Interesting. I did not know you could do that. Still on 13.37, have not used in a couple months, did the update thing and cant get past login. Was going to a wipe and install of 14.x but will try this and wait for 14.1.