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sachs

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Registered: 2012-11-28

Posts: 2

[Solved]Can't start x in vmware

HI:
    I'm sorry for my poor English.I have installed arch linux following by Beginners' Guide and Installing Arch Linux in VMware as a guest in vmware 9.But I coundn't startx(awesome).
    I have installed:

xorg-server
xorg-server-utils
xorg-xinit
xf86-video-vmware
xf86-input-vmmouse
awesome

   And my ~/.xinitrc:

exec awesome

   I also create "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-gpudriver.conf"

Section "Device"
    Identifier "card0"
    Driver     "vmware"
EndSection

   But when I input "startx", it just show a mouse cursor and crashed.

Loading extension GLX
(EE) xsetroot: unable to open display ':0' Error: Can't open display: :0 Server terminated with error

   This is "grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log"

(EE) Backtrace:
(EE) 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x36) [0x58a326]
(EE) 1: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x18e179) [0x58e179]
(EE) 2: /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7f7724fc6000+0xf1a0) [0x7f7724fd51a0]
(EE) 3: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x7f7723c33000+0x133d80) [0x7f7723d66d80]
(EE) 4: /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0 (0x7f7724b22000+0x4e1a6) [0x7f7724b701a6]
(EE) 5: /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0 (pixman_image_composite32+0x459) [0x7f7724b2d349]
(EE) 6: /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0 (pixman-glyph_cache_insert+0x109) [0x7f7724b706f9]
(EE) 7: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so (0x7f7721793000+0x19b6c) [0x7f77217acb6c]
(EE) 8: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x1143d1) [0x5143d1]
(EE) 9: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x10d5d6) [0x50d5d6]
(EE) 10: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x37e61) [0x437e61]
(EE) 11: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x2696a) [0x42696a]
(EE) 12: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7f7723c54725]
(EE) 13: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x26cad) [0x426cad]
(EE)
(EE) Segmentation faulte at address 0xffefffff

   I'm very appreciate any helps!

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Last edited by sachs (2012-11-30 06:15:36)

hungerfish

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Registered: 2009-09-13

Posts: 254

Re: [Solved]Can't start x in vmware

You are probably seeing this.
Check your version of xorg-server and xorg-server-common. ( pacman -Qi xorg-server xorg-server-common )
If they are at 1.13.0-4 you need to revert / downgrade to version 1.13.0-3.
Check if you still have the packages on your system ( ls -l /var/cache/pacman/pkg | grep xorg-server ) and if so install them ( pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xorg-server-1.13.0-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz ... )
If they are not on your system, go to the arm and find the packages there. Be sure to select the correct CPU-architecture, download them to your home dir and then install them (pacman -U ...)

Or wait until the package gets updated. You could enable the testing repo for this, but I haven't tried that myself yet so I don't know if it solves the problem.

Last edited by hungerfish (2012-11-29 15:37:50)

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sachs

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Registered: 2012-11-28

Posts: 2

Re: [Solved]Can't start x in vmware

It works!
Although there are some errors in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, but I can log into desktop.
Thanks!