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fastfret79

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Registered: 2009-09-05

Posts: 87

Cairo 1.10 breaks X for me [solved]

After a reboot, xdm was letting me log in and it seemed to be doing something for about a second before dropping back to xdm.

After switching to another tty and logging in, I killed xdm and it's x session and ran startx to get this error message:

awesome: symbol lookup error: awesome: undefined symbol: cairo_xcb_surface_create

Rolling back cairo to 1.8.10-1 fixes this and allows me to log in correctly.

Do I need to fill out a bug report or anything else?

Last edited by fastfret79 (2010-09-11 15:04:49)

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: Cairo 1.10 breaks X for me [solved]

i guess  you have awesome.

when you are using testing, you are supposed to read what happens in there in arch-dev-public

http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 17852.html

use cairo-xcb from aur

Last edited by wonder (2010-09-11 14:43:55)

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fastfret79

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Registered: 2009-09-05

Posts: 87

Re: Cairo 1.10 breaks X for me [solved]

Thanks Wonder

I am subscribed to arch-dev-public but I must have completely overlooked those messages!

I must pay more attention in future!

I'll give cairo-xcb a try

Last edited by fastfret79 (2010-09-11 15:00:07)

fastfret79

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Registered: 2009-09-05

Posts: 87

Re: Cairo 1.10 breaks X for me [solved]

Yep - cairo-xcb works a charm

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: Cairo 1.10 breaks X for me [solved]

Thanks Wonder

I am subscribed to arch-dev-public but I must have completely overlooked those messages!

I must pay more attention in future!

I'll give cairo-xcb a try

i know what happened. "this doesn't seems imporant, CTRL+A, mark as read"

i do that all the time

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goll

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From: Croatia

Registered: 2007-10-29

Posts: 50

Re: Cairo 1.10 breaks X for me [solved]

I had the same problem and this fixed it for me, just wanted to comment, i'm not using any testing repositories, so a heads up to everyone using stable versions would be nice.

djpohly

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Registered: 2007-08-14

Posts: 25

Re: Cairo 1.10 breaks X for me [solved]

Same here - I got the cairo-xcb error with i3lock from [community].  I think this is new since i3lock-2.0.

Is it kosher for [community] to depend on AUR?  I know there are requirements with [core] dependencies, but do the other repos have similar requirements?

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

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Re: Cairo 1.10 breaks X for me [solved]

Same here - I got the cairo-xcb error with i3lock from [community].  I think this is new since i3lock-2.0.

Is it kosher for [community] to depend on AUR?  I know there are requirements with [core] dependencies, but do the other repos have similar requirements?

FYI, awesome has been moved to AUR.