Cannot start Awesome; libxcb-keysums.so.0 cannot be opened.

soupcan · 2009-04-17 02:26:09

I just recently Syued, and libxcb was updated. It seems to be installed correctly. However, Awesome no longer starts when I run startx; my screen flashes for a bit and returns to the virtual console. The error is:

awesome: error while loading shared libraries: libxcb-keysums.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

I've tried reinstalling both Awesome 3.2-1 and libxcb. Any suggestions/needed config files?

Kknd · 2009-04-17 02:53:07

Try recompiling Awesome

canen · 2009-04-17 03:03:44

I had the same issue, even upgraded to 3.2.1. Recompiling works but my Mod4 key stopped working.

Last edited by canen (2009-04-17 03:04:09)

canen · 2009-04-17 04:02:12

To fix the problem I downgraded xcb-util to 0.3.3 and startup-notifications (which depends on xcb-util) to 0.9. If you recompiled awesome using the newer versions you'll need to recompile it again. Things seem to be back to normal now.

tzar · 2009-04-17 07:45:03

Building awesome-git has solved this for me.

zyon · 2009-04-17 11:13:47

canen wrote:

I had the same issue, even upgraded to 3.2.1. Recompiling works but my Mod4 key stopped working.

I have the same issue.

Last edited by zyon (2009-04-17 11:14:32)

canen · 2009-04-17 11:46:13

zyon, did you downgrade xcb-util and startup-notifications?

zyon · 2009-04-17 14:04:58

canen wrote:

zyon, did you downgrade xcb-util and startup-notifications?

not yet

KimTjik · 2009-04-17 14:55:41

Recompiling awesome-git works for me but to downgrade xcb-utils and startup-notification would mean that I have to remove a whole list of applications or trying to downgrade huge amount of applications.

Awesome starts up fine but until newer versions of xcb-utils and startup-notification work the desktop is unresponsive to both keyboard and mouse buttons. The desktop looks just as nice though!

I suppose I'll have to be patient and wait and until a change use XFCE or PekWM.

canen · 2009-04-17 15:20:43

KimTjik,

xcb-utils and startup-notification were the only two I had to downgrade and everything seems to be working fine. I also have KDEMod installed but don't really use the desktop.

KimTjik · 2009-04-17 15:37:25

I've checked dependencies in my system and unfortunately it doesn't stop with those two. If I start I'll break a huge lot of packages and I'm afraid I loose track on how to sort it out.

Is this an Awesome issue meaning we need a new build or do we need patches for xcb-util and startup-notifier?

rocktorrentz · 2009-04-17 17:18:50

As others have said, switching to awesome-git is a solution. I hate downgrading stuff.

awfullyawesome · 2009-04-17 17:51:08

rocktorrentz wrote:

As others have said, switching to awesome-git is a solution. I hate downgrading stuff.

yea, but as KimTjik said Awesome doesn't respond to mouse & keyboard.

soupcan · 2009-04-17 18:45:12

I just got an update for Awesome from the [awesome] camazotz.de repository. Awesome now runs, but like everyone else, my keybinds (Mod4+Enter for terminal, etc.) have stopped working. Everything else is fine.

damoppi · 2009-04-17 20:17:03

Building awesome-git from aur fixes some of the problems. But not all of the shortcuts work here. For example, Mod4 + o and Mod4 + f still fail. But maybe my "non-standard" keyboard layout has something to do with it. Downgrading the two packages didn't work here (Arch64).

KimTjik · 2009-04-17 20:26:47

Hm, how comes some get it to partially work and some of us can't even get keyboard and mouse buttons to be recognised? If at least Mod4+F1 did work or I could get dmenu to show up I would use Awesome, but now it's just a dead desktop living its own life.

If there was a question about what version I use it's Awesome-git now updated to today's version. I rebuilt wicked-git just in case it interfered, but it didn't change a thing.

damoppi · 2009-04-17 20:41:07

Maybe it has something to do with the hal update

 upgraded hal (0.5.12git20090406.46dc48-1 -> 0.5.12git20090406.46dc48-2)

, it was updated just before awesome stop working, but i didn't try a downgrade. But the keys are recognised, tried with xev.

soupcan · 2009-04-17 21:28:15

damoppi wrote:

Maybe it has something to do with the hal update
 upgraded hal (0.5.12git20090406.46dc48-1 -> 0.5.12git20090406.46dc48-2)
, it was updated just before awesome stop working, but i didn't try a downgrade. But the keys are recognised, tried with xev.

I don't believe so... I got that update yesterday/this morning, and Awesome was working correctly. I'm almost positive the problem is with either Awesome itself or libxcb.

taken2k4 · 2009-04-18 02:58:36

I have the same problem and sincerely I still thinking (I am afraid) to install Awesome-git. because, in spite of awesome is working without Mod4 key, the rest is working. Does anybody has the problem fix installing awesome-git?

Are these the steps : http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Awe … wicked-git

By other hand :

In this line of the wiki : # yaourt -S awesome-git wicked-git
I think, because of warning messages of my urxvt that it is dangerous. I think (IMHO) it is important add that warning to the wiki.

Thank you very much in advance and best regards

lswest · 2009-04-18 09:51:32

soupcan wrote:

I don't believe so... I got that update yesterday/this morning, and Awesome was working correctly. I'm almost positive the problem is with either Awesome itself or libxcb.

Yeah, the new libxcb only seems to create a symlink to a new version of the libxcb-keysyms.so file (libxcb-keysyms.so.1.0.0), and it's possible that the contents of that library have been reorganized so that awesome can't use it until it has been updated? Either way, I think the problem lies in both (though libxcb being the main problem). I guess I'll take the time to try out XMonad or something.

Just my $0.02,
Lswest

*EDIT* Posted my solution in this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 64#p538364

Last edited by lswest (2009-04-18 15:18:39)

soupcan · 2009-04-18 16:52:37

lswest wrote:

soupcan wrote:
I don't believe so... I got that update yesterday/this morning, and Awesome was working correctly. I'm almost positive the problem is with either Awesome itself or libxcb.
Yeah, the new libxcb only seems to create a symlink to a new version of the libxcb-keysyms.so file (libxcb-keysyms.so.1.0.0), and it's possible that the contents of that library have been reorganized so that awesome can't use it until it has been updated? Either way, I think the problem lies in both (though libxcb being the main problem). I guess I'll take the time to try out XMonad or something.
Just my $0.02,
Lswest
*EDIT* Posted my solution in this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 64#p538364

Is that the only way? I'd really like a solution that doesn't involve all of that.

Last edited by soupcan (2009-04-18 17:56:09)

lswest · 2009-04-18 20:44:11

Only solution I found, and it only worked for my laptop...not my PC (exact same awesome configs), so I'm not sure.

soupcan · 2009-04-18 20:53:45

lswest wrote:

Only solution I found, and it only worked for my laptop...not my PC (exact same awesome configs), so I'm not sure.

It's not working for me.

neaf · 2009-04-18 20:53:56

I see at few paraller threads about this problem.
Fortunately I don't use Arch as my primary system, so I'll just wait for good solution.
Other problem I got after update today is that my Alt+1/2/3 etc gives me ², ³ etc, so I can't change my irssi window in example.

soupcan · 2009-04-19 16:32:10

I'm bumping this because I'd really like a solution.

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