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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?
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Try recompiling Awesome
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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)
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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.
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Building awesome-git has solved this for me.
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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)
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zyon, did you downgrade xcb-util and startup-notifications?
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zyon, did you downgrade xcb-util and startup-notifications?
not yet
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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.
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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.
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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?
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As others have said, switching to awesome-git is a solution. I hate downgrading stuff.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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)
Lswest <- the first letter of my username is a lowercase "L".
"...the Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it." - Linus Torvalds
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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)
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Only solution I found, and it only worked for my laptop...not my PC (exact same awesome configs), so I'm not sure.
Lswest <- the first letter of my username is a lowercase "L".
"...the Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it." - Linus Torvalds
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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.
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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.
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I'm bumping this because I'd really like a solution.
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